On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:33:34 -0800, Solly <solly1@REMOVEnewsguy.com>
wrote:
>etu <etu@lasbud.edu> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:34:49 -0600, sitkaman wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:10:56 +0100, J. Knasterhuis <j.knasterhuis@localhost> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Thank you very much!!
>>>>
>>>>I have a suggestion too.
>>>>When you create the PAR2 files, you create them not just for the
>>>>essential files (the VIDEO_TS folder), but also for all the TXT, BMP,
>>>>JPEG files.
>>>>
>>>>This results in missing blocks if any of those non-essential files are
>>>>missing, and some essential files have to be repaired.
>>>>
>>>>This could be aproblem for someone with a very crappy connection, who
>>>>just needs 1 more block to repair... Or, years into the future, when
>>>>PAR2 files WILL be needed, it could just all hang on 1 single block
>>>>missing.
>>>>
>>>>Solution: create the recovery files *before* you add the other files
>>>>(TXT, BMP, JPEG and so on) to the folder where you upload from.
>>>>
>>>>See attachement 'Concerning_Recovery_Files.png'.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks again!
>>>>
>>>snip
>>>
>>>Well, I guess I could do that, I have certainly thought about doing it that way.
>>>
>>>I'll tell you what, if I hear no conflicting opinions, I'll start doing it that way on
>>>tomorrows post.
>>>
>>>sitkaman
>>I think the texts and images are worthy to also be included in a .PAR
>>repair option so that they can be repaired when they get damaged. You
>>could do a seperate set of .PAR for them. You could also include the
>>text and images in the .RAR archive when it is up to me.
>>
>>Waste of space imho is to include sample.mpg's in .PAR repair specialy
>>when that is combined with the main RAR achive.
>
>Placing the supporting files (jpg, nfo, txt, samples) into the RARs defeats
>the purpose of allowing the down loader to view these before deciding
>whether to download the RARs or not.
>
>I have no problem with the supporting files being included in the PAR set
>but personally I prefer not to do so.
>
>You can't please everyone.
>
>Thank you for the effort you have been doing on this project. I once
>wondered how you knew the size etc. for your list of posted DVDs because I
>did not figure that you had downloaded everything that was posted. I now
>realize that I was mistaken.
That is one of the reasons i think for sitkaman it is worthwhile to
also make sure the accompanying .txt and .image files can be restored
as he still has kept all complete, it might be that besides sitkaman
only mjello kept everything together and organised like that.
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