People changing extensions to avoid downloaders.
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People changing extensions to avoid downloaders.
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As the title states, this seems to be a growing problem. Here is what is happening, I have noticed that a growing number of people are changing file extension to avoid downloaders. As I see the problem I also looked for a solution, when I realized that hashing your files is now required. Anyway no two different files can have the same hash right? If this is true, then I think future versions should allow you to download files with made up extensions (aka *.avi2, *.sos, etc.) to a file with the proper extensions (say *.avi or *.mpg). This I think would allow you to have more sources to D/L from and it would keep the community honest. It would basically let people download get more sources to download from even though one user has the same file with the *.mpg extension and the other has the *.mpeg extension even though it is the same file current versions wont let you use it as another score because the extension doesn’t match.
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P.S. I hope everyone understands what I am trying to say.
As the title states, this seems to be a growing problem. Here is what is happening, I have noticed that a growing number of people are changing file extension to avoid downloaders. As I see the problem I also looked for a solution, when I realized that hashing your files is now required. Anyway no two different files can have the same hash right? If this is true, then I think future versions should allow you to download files with made up extensions (aka *.avi2, *.sos, etc.) to a file with the proper extensions (say *.avi or *.mpg). This I think would allow you to have more sources to D/L from and it would keep the community honest. It would basically let people download get more sources to download from even though one user has the same file with the *.mpg extension and the other has the *.mpeg extension even though it is the same file current versions wont let you use it as another score because the extension doesn’t match.
Slice
P.S. I hope everyone understands what I am trying to say.
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Wow, that's a perfect example of a problem that hashing solves.
Autosearching should always pick up files with identical TTHes as alternates. Selecting a single file in search results or the file list should also let you download to any matching TTH. If you select multiple files, even with the same TTH, you don't get the same option. That's why Todi reopened Bug 35.
Autosearching should always pick up files with identical TTHes as alternates. Selecting a single file in search results or the file list should also let you download to any matching TTH. If you select multiple files, even with the same TTH, you don't get the same option. That's why Todi reopened Bug 35.
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thats what i'm saying
That’s what I’m saying...the download to option works great and so does the hashing but at this point (as of 0.4034) you are not able to add another download source if the file extension does not match that of your initial source’s extension even though the hashes match. Right now I can start d/ling a Divx AVI with the AVI file extension and everything is fine as long as all the sources I try to add to my source list have AVI extensions, but if I try add the same file with a DIVX extension via the "download to" option it wont let me add it even though the file hash is the same.
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Yes you can actually, as long as you only add one file with a different extension at a time, try it. It is a known bug that you can't add multiple files with different extensions at once. See this bugzilla entry for more information.
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just tried it...it woks but only with one at a time like you said, when will the multiple issue be fixed?Todi wrote:Yes you can actually, as long as you only add one file with a different extension at a time, try it. It is a known bug that you can't add multiple files with different extensions at once. See this bugzilla entry for more information.
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when it's fixedslicemaster101 wrote:when will the multiple issue be fixed?
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