Hey all, weird one this - I have just upgraded to 1.32 and i noticed with files lately (using the magnet system) - that when they were completed, they had no extension ie mp4/avi etc..and such windows didnt know what to do with them? When the properties box comes up for the first time, the details about the file are correct - it just doesnt transfer it to the filename section above it? If i look at the file and see it is an mp4 - i just add the extension to it and all is well. It didnt do it with 1.31 though??
Not a major problem, just an annoyance - but hey its damn good free software so not complaining! Is it something i can fix?
Appreciate the help.
ps Never posted before because always found answer for problems beforehand - but stumped with this one??
This sounds like a windows problem, not a bitcomet problem, but would require some investigation to be sure. At very least I can tell you that it doesn’t do this for others. The first thing I’d check is your folder settings, windows defaults to the option to hide file extensions if it recognizes the file type. This is perhaps the dumbest thing microsoft ever did. Perhaps for someone who knows nothing at all about computers, they might not want to see an .mp3 or .avi on the end of their files, but when they ask for help later, they have no idea what kind of files they have, so it serves no one.
I’ve even seen people try to add an extension on when one already exists, so they change the name from “song.mp3” to “song.mp3.mp3”, and they assume it’s fixed because they can see the extension, but everyone else will see the extension, and the redundant .mp3 added to the name. Please double check and make sure this isn’t whats happening in your case.
This isn’t a likely failure mode for BitComet, as it simply transfers what is sent. If the file you got didn’t have an extension, the file that was sent didn’t either.
I have a couple of other candidates for the dumbest thing MS ever did, though…
Yeah that solved it thanks! - Cant believe i didnt look at that first. Weird how it changed automatically though as with 1.31 it was fine? Hey ho - all sorted.. Thanks!!!
Hehe… he didn’t understand much of what you guys said, did he?
He still thinks that this was related to BitComet and not to his Windows installation.
Same thing happens to me olny thing that sucks is when you forget to pay attention to what type it was. Anyone know the names of Identify software?
Nothing wrong with both your OS or BitComet, and I guess it was an episode of a series uploaded by {eztv}, I have downloaded 9 episodes from them (6 Bent, 2 Justified and 1 Bones) all aer without extentions. windows will ask you to choose a program to open it and it will work with most of the player available, however if you want to make the changes permanently you can just add (.mp4, avi or mkv) at the end of the file name and the file logo will be changed according to the default video player installed in your computer. I have started with (.mp4) because {eztv} started using this format lately, but adding different extentions as (avi or mkv) will still works too.
i have this problem. however that has nothing to do with windows. i know how to display file extensions. also ive downloaded the exact same torrent with utorrent and that file got its file extension. so it IS a problem with bc.
i use the 1.32 version.
Trying to think of how you could be any more vague, but failing, gbullzebub.
agreed, I just read that post that referred to “exact same torrent”, but I have no idea what torrent it’s referring to…
How can we test a torrent if you refuse to provide it, and why bother to report a bug if you’re not going to provide any info on how to reproduce it?
Don’t know what to tell you, gbullzebub. 1.32 created the file with an .mp4 extension on my system with no trouble at all.
I too got the following file created by bitcomet
House.S08E16.HDTV.x264-LOL.mp4
Again, this is {eztv} file, which I guess they noticed that the extention was missing and add to the filename later, maybe just before you downloaded it again with Utorrent. If you have this problem with any other uploader then there might be a problem somewhere, but if it is only with {eztv} then it is just a missing extention.
Now what is the big deal here? just add (.mp4) at the end of the filename and you are OK.
I forgot to tell you, don’t change the filename meanwhile seeding it as BitComet may not recognize the file after adding the extention, just wait untill you have finished seeding it and then add the extention. If you want to see the episode earlier, then just choose a media player when windows asks you what program do you want to open this unknown file with (I tried it with KMPlayer, VLC, GOM, UM, Real, Windows and Media Player classic) no problem whatsoever.
hiya! I had the same thing also, but ONLY with magnet links, with either 1.31 1.32 beta and 1.32 final, regular links are fine. However i cannot tell if it has always been like that since i dont regularly use magnet links, i was just testing it. just sharing
A torrent, once made, can’t be changed, even so trivial a thing as a file’s extension. The hashcode of the block it’s contained in, would no longer match, and it would be rejected as a bad block ad infinitum. This is the mechanism that prevents somebody from inserting a trojan or virus into a torrent. It’s not possible to “fix” a torrent, because what you then have is a new torrent whose hash does not match the old torrent.
ok here is what i have noticed.
Clean install of windows. clean install of bc 1.32
clicking on a .torrent file to download all is working fine. filenames and everything great.
however clicking on magnet links seems to be an issue for most files very rarely is the filename set.
then if i click cancel on the window of bit comet and click the same magnet link again the filename then appears once the file is retrieved.
if i click download the first time the filename for the file is not entered file will download without an extention.
if i click cancel and then click magnet link again the download will occur with the filename present. ive tried using IE and Comet Bird for clicking the magnet urls.
bc1.gif shows where i am talking about
Bc2.gif shows where after clicking cancel and then clicking on the magnet url the filename appears.
** Scrugio1, is right!!! almost everything i DL is from eztv using the Magnet link. and this problem just started in the last few days, cause it wasn’t doing it last week, but i also didn’t have 1.32 last week… so do i blame bitcomet or eztv? cause it also seems to be doing this useing magnet links from the pirate bay. but this re-click the link does solve the problem. so thanks again scrugio1!**