Quite often the contents of a file is not what it is supposed to be. After a long download this could be very frustrating. Can you suggest any method whereby I could download; say about five minutes of a file and preview it ?
Thanks
sheilarams

if you're downloading a media file, video lan client is in many cases able to play partly downloaded files.

afaik we've never had a fake file uploaded to this site, though.

Keep in mind that a file may appear to be fake without it be so. This can be a case if you use 'allocate the space for files' option in your torrent client (they are called different things, but it's the option that will make a large file large right away rather than slowly increasing its size as the download progresses).

The reason for that is that if your file system allows for this to be done correctly (by simply allocating blocks to the file) and doesn't force the application to write gigabytes of zeros, you may have a previously deleted or moved video chunks appear in the new file. As such when you try to preview it you will see these blocks of the video, causing you some confusion ('why am i seeing this stupid movie i have deleted when i'm trying to download an interview with chomsky').