hi there,

and firstly thx to shawn for 1.0.0 (made me finally start really using gnotella and abandon my old "choice").

but here is something to think about. i am downloading a large file and gnotella adds each server it finds to the server-list. this is fine in general, however the download has been on for some days now. what it comes up to is, that i got >120 servers in the list now. one could think "just fine", but it isn't.

most of the servers are behind a firewall so gnotella requests pushes, which need 60 secs to timeout. this means it takes gnotella over 2 hours (!) to cycle through the list. assuming that the major number of these hosts have dynamic ips and logged off and on again (thus changing their ip) this means gnotella tries the valid hosts only every two hours. this puts my chances for a download to a minimum (i don't think i will succeed this way, but i will let it try some more to be sure).

a problem related to this is - i cant reset the host-list without deleting the old (almost completed) download. or can i? it would really suck to start all over again ...

all the best,

ok, maybe you can do it manually ... just move the file while no download is in progress, abort & clear the download, move the file back and look for servers again and hope that gnotella will resume it for you! I will check ...

ok, checked that.
***no sorry, i only thought i did. it seems gnotella has overwritten the file, but i am not sure yet and have to do some more testing.***

here is how you go:
- move the file to somewhere else
- find a server with an identical file and start a download
- quit gnotella
- move the file back
- edit the downloads.txt file, which is in the gnotella dir
- edit the line with the correct filename and put
"drive:\path\filename_old"
between the ";;"

seems to work ...
***as i said - that's not sure yet. i will try to check it out and will report back here.***

al the best,

forget that idea - it doesn't work. seems you have to start the download all over again (at least i had to). this sucks