Import-export files

2005-07-22T08:55:44Z

Olilanz: =When is this useful?=

== When is this useful? ==

If you are switching to [[aMule]] from some other [[FAQ_eD2k-Kademlia#What is ED2K?|ed2k]] [[client]], you might find out that [[aMule]]'s [[temp file]]s aren't compatible with your old [[client]]'s [[temp file]]s.

Allthough [[aMule]] uses a standard [[temp file]] format, this incompatibility issue might happen if you are switching from [[MlDonkey]], [[eDonkey2000]] and some strange [[xMule]] versions. This is because these [[client]]s use strange [[temp file]] formats non-compatible with other [[client]]'s format (such as [[eMule]]'s).

Of course, you can use this document to export [[temp file]] from [[aMule]] too since almost all what will be explained here is extensible to most other [[FAQ_eD2k-Kademlia#What is ED2K?|ed2k]] [[client]]s.

== Procedure ==

The best thing to do is to [[Testing field|set up a testing Field]] (please read [[Testing field|this document]] before going on).

Once the [[testing field]] is set up, you have to ways to move on. Choose whatever way suits better your needs:

*[[Search]] (with a [[Search#Local_search|local search]]), in your [[aMule]] [[client]], one-by-one for all the files you were downloading with your old [[client]] and go adding them to the download [[queue]].

*Go to your old [[client]] and copy the [[ed2k link]]s of the files in the download [[queue]] one-by-one and go adding them into [[aMule]].

Since it's a local connection, the transfer will be almost as fast as copying the [[temp file]]s from one place to another.

Once all the files have been downloaded, you can safly remove your old [[client]] from your system and have a happy [[aMule]] experience ;)

== Disadvantages ==

Although this is very fast to do, it has a disadvantage: only full [[FAQ_eD2k-Kademlia#What_is_a_chunk?|chunk]]s will be downloaded. This is like this because the [[FAQ_eD2k-Kademlia#What is eD2K?|ed2k]] protocol defines it this way.

Whether this is a big or a little problem is absolutely random. in 90% of the cases, this will suppose loosing about 5% of the data or less. But if you are downloading lots of little files (less than 10MB for example) the loss could come up to 90% (or even 100% in some few extreme cases).

If you find that the loss is too big, I'd suggest you to finish your current downloads on your old [[client]] and then switch to [[aMule]].

== Another method ==

You can also use [[eMule]] for [http://www.microsoft.com/windows Windows], which can import [[eDonkey2000]] temp format (newer [[eMule]] and [[aMule]] use the same format). But I tried, and it crashed a lot.

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Import-export files