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I am having troubles with my bittorrent downloads.

Whenever i download something, it gets to 98.9% and then stops downloading anyithng but uploads loads.

It is obviously very hair rippingly frustrating.

Does anyone have any ideas?

its possible that none of your peers have the other 1.1%

It's normal for some torrents, nothing you can do about it but keep it running and hope you eventually get the last pieces.

but this has happened to two torrents, and they both got to 98.9% and then stopped.

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Originally posted by lizard.boy
its possible that none of your peers have the other 1.1%

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That's right, so if the original "complete" seed is gone, then everyone will get stuck at 98% so untill he comes back on or someone with a complete seed comes on, no one will ever get to finish d/l it.

This happens to me too saralk if you leave the .torrent open and still downloading someone will have the last little percentage it is fustrateing...have you got all your convigeration settings correct for you bandwith etc because that also could be a problem.

Why do my downloads sometimes stall at 99%?

The more pieces you have, the harder it becomes to find peers who have pieces you are missing. That is why downloads sometimes slow down or even stall when there are just a few percent remaining. Just be patient and you will, sooner or later, get the remaining pieces.

Edit i didnt write this

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Originally posted by DragonX

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Originally posted by lizard.boy
its possible that none of your peers have the other 1.1%

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That's right, so if the original "complete" seed is gone, then everyone will get stuck at 98% so untill he comes back on or someone with a complete seed comes on, no one will ever get to finish d/l it.

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Quoting myself again ha ha

EDIT: Sry SonicSam, didn't read that last post right.

What SonicSam plagarised is completely correct. Just leave it downloading (and uploading). Eventually it will finish.

Another possibility is that part of the torrent is a system file (eg Thumbs.db). Your computer keeps overwriting this this file, and the BitTorrent client downloads it again, but the computer overwrites it again. When your client checks the file, the hash doesn't match the one that it should be, the client delcares it not downloaded, and you're back downloading that file again.

Try using the download even though it says it is incomplete. Maybe it is usable already, and the client is just stuck redownloading some files that are removed or overwritten by your computer.

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Originally posted by rav0
What SonicSam plagarised

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true but its a programs FAQ so
I never said I did it

But in simple. Just wait and It will finish.

ps: ok ill edit saying io didnt write it

edit: i wrote this

it could also stop because its redownloading failed Pieces