Find missing torrent downloads and disk space

Feb 16, '06 04:55:00AM

Contributed by: ryebrye

If you use Azurueus to download BitTorrent files (from legitimate sources, such as Linux distributions, etc.), you may have this problem.

Possible Symptoms:

Causes:

Solution:

  1. Open the terminal window, and cd to your Volumes directory: cd /Volumes/
  2. Look at the volumes you have listed: ls
  3. You will see that you have two hard drives with the same name. One will have a ' 1' at the end of its name. If not, this isn't your problem -- something else is.
  4. Determine which is your real drive and which one is the fake one. I've seen it both ways. The fake drive can either have the ' 1,' or the real one can, regardless of what name shows up in the Finder.
  5. Move the files over to your real drive. Type: mv fakedrive/* realdrive /FromFake/, where fakedrive is the name of your "fake" volume, and realdrive is the name of your real one. This will copy your files into a new folder called FromFake that you will be able to access in the Finder easily.
  6. Patiently wait while the system copies the files. It will be done when you can type in the Terminal window again.
  7. Type rm -r fakedrive on the fake one. Be VERY careful when you rm -r -- you don't want to type the wrong drive, or you will erase all of your files and ruin your day. To help my sanity, I will rename my real drive at the start of this process. Typing mv drive 1 drive yadda yadda can get confusing if you forget which drive is which.
This problem has happened to me several times, and it's happened to a few friends of mine. It took me a long time to figure out what had happened the first time -- hopefully this will help some of you out.

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