I've been trying to clear out old recordings on my sf4008 by downloading old recordings via FTP, and I ran into a problem downloading a couple files. I had several repeat recordings of one program, all of which showed the same approximate file size of approximately 6.2 GB. The first couple files downloaded fine, but the third one only downloaded 4.025 GB then popped up a message saying that the file already existed, asking me if I wanted to overwrite. When I answered yes, it started over at the beginning, again stopping at 4.025. I double checked to make sure the disk I was downloading to was NTFS and not FAT, and it was. I deleted the destination file and tried again with the same result. I switched to another destination hard disk, with same result.
Anyway, after multiple tries I finally remembered that several years ago, I had allowed the destination drive to fill up, so that there wasn't room for the recording, and yet the Octagon had listed the recording as being there with the full 6.2 GB size, even though only 4.025 GB was there.
Well, I went on to the next recording to download, and it did the same thing, ie reported 6.2 GB, but only about 100 MB was recorded, ie somehow the Octagon found another 100 MB space to squeeze in another partial recording.
I was hoping to just select a whole bunch of files to download, but now I apparently need to check them first to see if the files are really completely there in it's totality. So I'm curious if there is a linux command that lists the actual file size instead of what the Octagon assumed had been there. I tried viewing the file listing on the Octagon, via FTP, via Windows, and via Linux putty and doing an ls -la, but all methods give the same bogus file size. But I was hoping that there might be some linux command other than ls that I'm not aware of the might evaluate the file integrity?
Recently I tried to play an old recording I had made of one of my favorite movies, and I watched about half of the movie when all of a sudden, it ended, apparently due to the same issue, and now the service where it was recorded is no longer FTA, so that recording was lost for good. So now I'm thinking that I somehow have to check all my old recordings to make sure that they are really complete, but other than pulling them up with a player and using the scroll-bar to zip it to the end, I don't see any easy way to tell if the actual size is smaller than the size listed.
Anyway, after multiple tries I finally remembered that several years ago, I had allowed the destination drive to fill up, so that there wasn't room for the recording, and yet the Octagon had listed the recording as being there with the full 6.2 GB size, even though only 4.025 GB was there.
Well, I went on to the next recording to download, and it did the same thing, ie reported 6.2 GB, but only about 100 MB was recorded, ie somehow the Octagon found another 100 MB space to squeeze in another partial recording.
I was hoping to just select a whole bunch of files to download, but now I apparently need to check them first to see if the files are really completely there in it's totality. So I'm curious if there is a linux command that lists the actual file size instead of what the Octagon assumed had been there. I tried viewing the file listing on the Octagon, via FTP, via Windows, and via Linux putty and doing an ls -la, but all methods give the same bogus file size. But I was hoping that there might be some linux command other than ls that I'm not aware of the might evaluate the file integrity?
Recently I tried to play an old recording I had made of one of my favorite movies, and I watched about half of the movie when all of a sudden, it ended, apparently due to the same issue, and now the service where it was recorded is no longer FTA, so that recording was lost for good. So now I'm thinking that I somehow have to check all my old recordings to make sure that they are really complete, but other than pulling them up with a player and using the scroll-bar to zip it to the end, I don't see any easy way to tell if the actual size is smaller than the size listed.
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