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When I add a torrent the program works fine but after a few minutes it increases the value of total size. Right now I am downloading a torrent of size 5.08 GB, but the program detects it as 5.45 GB. What may cause that kind of problem and how do I check whether files downloaded correctly? |
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Are you sure the unit is the same? Maybe Transmissions is not using GiB units? It happens, that 5.45 GB = 5.08 GiB <--- Note the "i". The difference between GB (gigabytes) and GiB (gibibytes) is that GB are based on power of 10, and GiB are based on power of 2. and, subsequently GiB is not a SI unit, though SI standard recommends to use it for data size. There is a short article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte and there is a detailed explanation of this idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix Note that 5.45 GB = 5450000000 B = 5.08 GiB, so if Transmission uses GB instead of GiB, then everything is okay ;) |
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