[Boatanchors] RE : Difficulty downloadiing and opening 73 Magazine files with BitTorent

[Fred Cousins]

Are you sure you did stop the torrent download before the download was
complete ?   It took me around 10 days to complete the 17 GB torrent dll.
Check to see if the folder is 17.2 GB.

 I have 15 mbps  dll speeds with my cable provider, of course,  my provider
is also infamous with throttling torrent speeds,  so I had to restart the
feed multiple times during the course of the week or so.

Anyways, I was anxious to read them - so I'd try and open the files-  I'd
found that many of them LOOKED like a complete reader (.PDF)  but would
give me the same error  message you had mentioned  (I'd tried in Acrobat
Reader, Foxit and STDU viewer). It appears that Torrent down-loaders, when
downloading a multi-file feed , creates all the file "flags" first,  and
then randomly fills in the data behind them.

Progressively, I was able to read more issues and eventually, I was able to
read all of them.

Hope that helps-

Fred Cousins