using sfv checker

[burgkev]

Recently, it seems every movie I download (last 5 tries) I cannot extract with Win rar. I keep getting messages in a dialog box saying "data error file redundancy" of "file is corrupt." The strange thing is my friend was able to download the same movie in one case with the same applications I have and had no problems (his speeds are slower, however). Accepting it could be a crazy case of coincidence that the files are indeed corrupt, I downloaded sfv checker. I went to my newsgroup browser and examined the collection of files for a movie and downloaded its sfv file. When I entered it in sfv checker, the "status" for all files was "no file" and it reads 50 total files and 50 missing files. I thought the whole point of this application was that you don't have to waste time downloading the whole file if it's corrupt. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I use Newsleecher and download at 1.24mb/s. Maybe my computer is losing bytes during the dl process because it can't process quickly enough? Although I had no probs in the past.

[manono]

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I doubt the file was corrupt at the source. It probably didn't download properly. Maybe, for example, you have a bad stick of memory and it got corrupted at your computer. After all, didn't you say your friend has no problems downloading the same files?

I don't know what sfv checker is, but you usually install an sfv program at your end (I use QuickSFV), and then run the SFV file included in the download against the RARs you downloaded, and it'll tell you which, if any, are corrupt.

When I entered it in sfv checker, the "status" for all files was "no file" and it reads 50 total files and 50 missing files.

If you hadn't yet downloaded the RARs, then, indeed, there were no files.