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And then you get it all off the floppy's only to realize 10% of it is corrupted
Oh yes. CRC Error was it?
And that's when you learned about parity files...
When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn't use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.