[Mldonkey-bugs] [Bug #601] Enhancement request: exporting partially downloaded files

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http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=601&group_id=1409

Submitted by: jzl60                     Project: mldonkey, open e-Donkey client 
Submitted on: 2002-Jun-14 01:42
Category:  None                         Severity:  5 - Major                    
Bug Group:  None                        Resolution:  None                       
Assigned to:  None                      Status:  Open                           

Summary:  Enhancement request: exporting partially downloaded files

Original Submission:   Howdy good guys,
May be I am the only one who have the problem, but sometime, I am running out 
of space in the temp directory. It would be nice to have a command to export a 
partially downloaded file into another directory (file system). This would mean 
not sharing and downloading such file while exported.
 Taking the example of kazaa, I can do this by stopping the service, moving the 
file. When space become available, I stop the service, move back the file, and 
restart the service. This works with Kazaa because both the data and the 
metadata are located within the same file.
 This is not possible with mldonkey because:
  - The metadata of the file is located in a global file (files.ini)
  - The partially downloaded files may contains some wholes. So the regular 
Unix mv command would not do a good jobs.

 So, the idea would be to implement 2 core commands:
  - move num /dir: moving a partially downloaded file (reffered as num) and its 
metadata to a directory. Basically says, get the file outside of the mldonkey 
download area, but remember what I already downloaded. The metadata and the 
data already downloaded would be moved to the directory /dir.

  - move_back /file: Move back a halted file and metadata under mldonkey 
control. This means, inserting it into the files.ini and moving the already 
downloaded data back into the temp directory.

 My 2 cents,
Joel



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