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Q: Dumb non-China question of the day...

I'm downloading a big torrent file (Vuze bittorrent client),,,,  79.23gb,,,,  but I only have 29.54gb memory available on my MacBook Air (121.12gb flash drive),,,,   I didn't think about that because would put the file on my external drive anyway (1tb).   But do I still have to have 80gb plus available on computer to dl it?

*it's dl'ing now, I have 13.5%

5 years 20 weeks ago in  Web & Technology - China

 
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In your options somewhere you should have the choice of where you DL the file to.

 

You won't have room on your Macbook so it will probably end in frustration and wasted time but you should be able to change the download location to your external drive.

diverdude1:

ah,,,  makes sense.  I will search for that option now.    14.7% so I have time,, haha

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Stiggs:

Thing is, once you start the DL I don't know if you could change the destination. You'd have part on your computer and the rest on the external drive.

 

A better idea maybe to move stuff off your computer and onto the external drive temporarily to free up the room then change it all around later.

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diverdude1:

I did this too......

 

I was using a laptop and realised half way through a large file that the laptop hard drive wouldn't be big enough, so I attached an external hard drive ...

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All I did was.
STOP EVERYTHING DOWNLOADING.
CLOSE VUSE.
COPY THE ENTITE VUSE DOWNLAODS FOLDER
PASTE FOLDER TO MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE.
OPEN VUSE.
CHANGE THE DIRECTORY FOR DOWNLOADS IN PREFERENCES TO NEW FOLDER ON EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE.
START DOWNLOADING AGAIN.

they took off from where they left off, but to new location, I checked first item that completed and it worked fine. I use a Mac, don't know if that matters, but it works this simple way.

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diverdude1:

I restarted vuze,,, restarted the DL,,, checked the File Path,,, which it seems to recognise as the ED,,,,, but now the darn torrent is getting nothing!  I mean it was slow before,,, but now,,, zilch.    Is it because I changed the destination folder ?  or is it just a broken torrent ??   ugh

 

Next laptop I buy I'm getting a terabyte or not buying it,,,, hell, they have iphone with 512gb,, and I think Sammys expand up to 1tb already.

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diverdude1:

good idea about moving all my files to ED,,,, but this darn MBA has such small memory to start with....  121.12gb

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yay,, it's back.  haha,,, with speeds like that I'll be an old man b4 I get the file...

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79 gig, damn you copy 20 seasons of gunsmoke or something

 

the thing most people forget is to load additional trackers, the more you have the faster you can get what you need from other torrent sites since they share a lot of trackers.

 

You can download a list of trackers off of "bit che" as a torrent itself, just type in a search for trackers.

 

I do have 20 seasons of gunsmoke reduced to MP4 Ipod to reduce space, 73 gigabytes but I also have every "the great courses", 731 different ones takes up 1.86 TB, all reduced to Ipod mp4. i just reduced "castle" all seasons from 1080 and 131gb on handbrake to ipod mp4, now its 18 gb.

diverdude1:

Boy whay I would do for 20 seasons of Gunsmoke!  well,,, guess I know what I searching for next ,, haha,,,   yeah,, I considered trackers like u said,, but I never really figured that out.  Plus today I was getting 1mB/sec so I'm happy enuf with that.

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ambivalentmace:

you would probably like blue heelers, police show in the outback of australia, 13 seasons, find good shows when you can torrent outside the us that you never new about. silent witness is better than bones, well except quincy. i use big bang and fraser to teach vocabulary, makes my students crazy.

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Stiggs:

If you like Aussie cop shows Ambi, you might like Underbelly.

 

Each series is based on the true story of real Aussie gangsters and how they eventually got caught or killed.

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ambivalentmace:

thanks stiggs, I am downloading seasons 1 through 5 from limetorrents, big file 135gb, i will reduce it with handbrake and ipod mp4 size to share.

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Got it.  Faster than I thought too,,,,,  most of yesterday evening was averaging 1MB/s and peaked at 2.8 MB/s,, not bad eh!  I think I had 11 seeders then.  11/16

 

No problem following file path to Toshiba ED ,,  got the whole file,, uncorrupted.  

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