[SOLVED] Deluge creates oversized files

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r0ckarong
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[SOLVED] Deluge creates oversized files

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For a few days now Deluge 1.3.3. has been behaving very strangely. When I download files Deluge first allocates too small of a file size (for example a 349MB video gets allocated with ~310-320 MB) and once the download is completed the file suddenly is 366MB. Same for any other consistent video file. An hour long TV episode with 550MB gets bloated to 577MB and is nearly unwatchable because the video/audio data breaks off every couple of minutes. What could be causing this? Can I do something to diagnose this?

I'm using Ubuntu oneiric with the proposed updates and Deluge from the ppa
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Re: Deluge creates oversized files

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Sounds strange, not had anyone report this before. Anything related to data allocation is dealt with by libtorrent.

What filesystem and libtorrent version, and have you enabled full or compact allocation?
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Re: Deluge creates oversized files

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Gosh do I feel stupid now. I was beating the wrong end of the horse. Apparently somewhere in the last week or so the Ubuntu developers pushed a patch for the Nautilus file manager that now uses their "official" and corrected byte counting syntax. Before 1024 bytes were 1KB and now it's 1000 bytes. That is why all my files look that much bigger in the file manager now. I thought since I didn't touch anything it must've had something to do with the way the files come onto the machine. My bad.

Apparently the video issues I've been having came from somewhere else too. Haven't figured out from what but it's not Deluge ;)
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