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:
- Files you are downloading may show up in the Torrents window in Azureus - but not on your hard drive. (Not even Spotlight will find them).
- A large chunk of hard drive space is missing from your system drive.
Causes:
- You have Azureus set to download its files to an external hard drive, and that drive wasn't mounted once when Azureus was opened.
Solution:
- Open the terminal window, and cd to your Volumes directory: cd /Volumes/
- Look at the volumes you have listed: ls
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Patiently wait while the system copies the files. It will be done when you can type in the Terminal window again.
- 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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