I've noticed something odd about using BT technology and I'm wondering if someone can explain what's going on.

Sometimes I download part of a file, or series of files in one place before I decide it's more practicable to finish it somewhere else. For example, I might be downloading a creative commons doco at work, to use at work but then decided to finish off the last bit of download at home so that I can check it out on the weekend first. In these cases, I load the file or folder and the torrent file onto a USB, take it home and restart the torrent.

Now, if all goes well, the client verifies the file/folder and picks up exactly where I had left off.

Other times however, although a file/folder was say 50% complete, the client will start off anew from a much lower percentage of the file - as if it's ignoring the data which should be there.

What's happening?

It could consider one of the parts as bad, thus doesn't use it.. the check it's doing is to confirm the bits are complete and not bad.. This is good, so you don't corrupt your download.

Yes as Purana said. I'd let your download finish completely from the one computer rather than spread it over two. Corruption of data etc might ensue otherwise. A small document would be OK but a larger file probably not. I can't understand why you would want to do this anyway.

Stewie

If you're using different clients, you should be aware that different clients write the data differently for resume.

It should work if you use the same client on both machines, however.

just a thought, could you make the torrent save to your USB drive i the first place, and if you need to finish elsewhere, just take the usb stick with you?

not sure if this could help?