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When using internet search, I don't want to see incomplete posts in my results. Is there anyway to filter them out?

I would like to know this too.

The answer is, you can't. By incomplete do you mean there's a I in the icon or that you add it to download and it turns red?

Quade wrote:By incomplete do you mean there's a I in the icon or that you add it to download and it turns red?

I mean there's an I in icon, inside of yellow triangle. Status says "Incomplete. Missing information needed for download". I would like to filter out these.

any answer to this question? I can't see the point of having incomplete posts in a list

delboy007 wrote:any answer to this question? I can't see the point of having incomplete posts in a list

Whether incompletes are useful probably depends on the type of material you are downloading. If it is part of a file set with accompanying PAR2 repair files then you want the incompletes to minimise the number of PAR2 repair blocks needed. In such a case it is likely to be critical to get the incompletes to have enough data to reconstruct the good files.

Having said that I can see that you might want an easy way to toggle showing of incompletes on/off.

Before PARS, it made a bunch of sense to filter out incompletes because they were basically unusable. With PARS though, they might be perfectly usable.

Are you seeing a bunch of incompletes? If so, could you PM me the search term you're using so I can look at it?