Mac Torrent help

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

So my furend downloaded bittorrent or something for me to get a D&D character build. But it took us 12 minutes for my mac verses 6 seconds for their windows. But when it did download, it said it was 'seeding' and wouldn't open. Anyone know what going on?

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

So my furend downloaded bittorrent or something for me to get a D&D character build. But it took us 12 minutes for my mac verses 6 seconds for their windows. But when it did download, it said it was 'seeding' and wouldn't open. Anyone know what going on?

Torrent speed is mostly related to connections between peers, and your own internet connection.

First, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_BitTorrent#Peer

These two lines will explain a bit more,

A seeder is a peer that has an entire copy of the torrent and offers it for upload. The more seeders there are, the better the chances of getting a higher download speed. If the seeder seeds the whole copy of the download, they should get faster downloads.

And,

A peer is one instance of a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet to which other clients connect and transfer data. Usually a peer does not have the complete file, but only parts of it. However, in the colloquial definition, "peer" can be used to refer to any participant in the swarm (in this case, it's synonymous with "client").

As for the question, your bit torrent program puts files that are completed in a specific place. Make sure it finished first, then check your options in the program you used to find out where completed files go. Locate that area on your hard drive and you should be able to use your build. Clicking it on the torrent program doesn't work in that way.

I hope this helps!

Ah thank you for your help =D
It's definitely finished downloading and I found where it downloaded to saying it can't run on DOS mode so I shall continue to bang my head against a table. But thank you for the help anyway, I'm just technologically impaired lol

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

So my furend downloaded bittorrent or something for me to get a D&D character build. But it took us 12 minutes for my mac verses 6 seconds for their windows. But when it did download, it said it was 'seeding' and wouldn't open. Anyone know what going on?

Torrent speed is mostly related to connections between peers, and your own internet connection.

First, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_BitTorrent#Peer

These two lines will explain a bit more,

A seeder is a peer that has an entire copy of the torrent and offers it for upload. The more seeders there are, the better the chances of getting a higher download speed. If the seeder seeds the whole copy of the download, they should get faster downloads.

And,

A peer is one instance of a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet to which other clients connect and transfer data. Usually a peer does not have the complete file, but only parts of it. However, in the colloquial definition, "peer" can be used to refer to any participant in the swarm (in this case, it's synonymous with "client").

As for the question, your bit torrent program puts files that are completed in a specific place. Make sure it finished first, then check your options in the program you used to find out where completed files go. Locate that area on your hard drive and you should be able to use your build. Clicking it on the torrent program doesn't work in that way.

I hope this helps!

Ah thank you for your help =D
It's definitely finished downloading and I found where it downloaded to saying it can't run on DOS mode so I shall continue to bang my head against a table. But thank you for the help anyway, I'm just technologically impaired lol

If I may ask, what kind of file extension is it?

This is where the technologically impaired comes in. I have no idea what that is or means. Essentially your talking to a three year old here lol

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

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It's an exe file I think, if that is a file type. Nah when I double click it, it gives me a "you cant open this" noise. Oddly the transfer time has been active for 7hours now =/
It's when I find the builder in downloads that it gives me the likes of this:
MZê

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

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It's an exe file I think, if that is a file type. Nah when I double click it, it gives me a "you cant open this" noise. Oddly the transfer time has been active for 7hours now =/
It's when I find the builder in downloads that it gives me the likes of this:
MZê

Hm. Close your torrent program, then try to reopen it. If that doesn't work I may have a few other ideas.

Nope that didn't work, it just seems like it's still doing something with it =/

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

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It's an exe file I think, if that is a file type. Nah when I double click it, it gives me a "you cant open this" noise. Oddly the transfer time has been active for 7hours now =/
It's when I find the builder in downloads that it gives me the likes of this:
MZê

Hm. Close your torrent program, then try to reopen it. If that doesn't work I may have a few other ideas.

Nope that didn't work, it just seems like it's still doing something with it =/

Can you copy or move the exe file?

As far as I know I can copy it.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

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It's an exe file I think, if that is a file type. Nah when I double click it, it gives me a "you cant open this" noise. Oddly the transfer time has been active for 7hours now =/
It's when I find the builder in downloads that it gives me the likes of this:
MZê

Hm. Close your torrent program, then try to reopen it. If that doesn't work I may have a few other ideas.

Nope that didn't work, it just seems like it's still doing something with it =/

Can you copy or move the exe file?

As far as I know I can copy it.

Try copying it and opening the copy.

Nah it just isn't working =/