.part.met recovery solution: (*.part): No such file or directory; ERROR: Failed to load PartFile

[slrslr]

It can happen that the .part file is missing:

Loading temp files from /path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp.
Loading PartFile 1 of 75
!CFile: Error when opening file (/path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part): No such file or directory
Failed to open /path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part.met (File i have tried to download.mp4)
Trying to load backup of met-file from /path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part.met.bak
!CFile: Error when opening file (/path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part): No such file or directory
Failed to open /path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part.met (File i have tried to download.mp4)
ERROR: Failed to load backup file. Search https://github.com/amule-org/amule/discussions for .part.met recovery solutions.
!ERROR: Failed to load PartFile '001.part.met'
Loading PartFile 2 of 75
Loading PartFile 3 of 75

Solution?

I only did what AI told me and that is to remove .part.met and .part.met.bak file for missing .part file. And then search for a "File i have tried to download.mp4" to download it again.

Full AI explanation:

The error occurs because aMule expects the actual data file (001.part) to exist alongside its metadata (.met), but the data file is missing. Since you have no backup of the partial data, the download is effectively corrupted and unrecoverable.

Best course of action: Delete the orphaned metadata files for that specific part to stop the errors.

Run these commands in your terminal:

rm /path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part.met
rm /path/to/downloads/incomplete/amule/Temp/001.part.met.bak

Then restart aMule. It will skip that entry and continue loading the remaining .part files without errors.

Why this works: The .met file is just a pointer to the download progress. Without the corresponding .part file containing the actual data, aMule cannot resume or validate the download. Removing the metadata tells aMule to forget that specific incomplete file entirely.

Note: If you want to recover the file, you'd need to find the original eD2k link and start the download fresh, as the partial data is gone.

[andry81]

You to backup it before the app run. And backup in the middle.

The same issue exists in the Windows.

https://github.com/andry81/contools/tree/HEAD/scripts/tools/ToolAdaptors/app/amule
https://github.com/andry81/contools/tree/HEAD/scripts/tools/ToolAdaptors/app/emule