Failed to read the dump file

[jzatarain]

I just downloaded the app for the first time, and when I opened it and searched for something, I only got an error saying: "Failed to read the dump file. Possible corruption or file doesn't exist."
What do I need to do to work this out?

[fckthisshieeeeet]

Yeah i got the same issue : i tried many way to get .csv dump files and i tried to update with the option in the software and i tried all of this with a vpn for torrent and each time it told me "Dump file invalid. Mismatching header" or Failed to read the dump file. Possible corruption of file doesn't exist."

[Naimarha]

Hi there, I could solve this issue using the "Update dump file" option in the "Tools" menu. Hope this works.

[yusiwen]

The site piratebay.org seems down currently, is there another way to get the dump file?

[DavidHulsman]

A bit late, but you may be able to find an individual backup here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/csv/torrent_dump_full.csv.gz

[BachoSeven]

Yea, you can try this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190924160713/https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/csv/torrent_dump_full.csv.gz

[GreenLunar]

Hello,

Can someone please tell me how to decode the HASH(B64) column or refer me to a documentation?

$ grep slackware torrent_dump_full.csv.gz
2008-Dec-17 08:12:18;ZA/oTGE8F/ZjVR0hhommTorr6r4=;"slackware-12.2-dvd-iso";4154949894

I've tried to decode with $ echo ZA/oTGE8F/ZjVR0hhommTorr6r4= | base64 -d which didn't give a reasonable result.

TIA

[GreenLunar]

Let's take slackware-12.2-dvd-iso

$ grep "slackware" torrent_dump_full.csv 
2008-Dec-17 08:12:18;ZA/oTGE8F/ZjVR0hhommTorr6r4=;"slackware-12.2-dvd-iso";4154949894

Following size (4154949894) and date (2008-Dec-17 08:12:18), I guess this is the torrent https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=4582957

How do I go from 640FE84C613C17F663551D218689A64E8AEBEABE to ZA/oTGE8F/ZjVR0hhommTorr6r4=?

[BachoSeven]

oh got it, to get the hash you just need to convert the raw decoded bytes to hexadecimal with xxd:

base64 -d <<< ZA/oTGE8F/ZjVR0hhommTorr6r4= | xxd -p

[GreenLunar]

Great! Thank you. How did you figure this out?

[BachoSeven]

The output was garbled bytes so I tried :)

Btw, if you place the hash in a base64 decoding website they automatically do this, but GNU base64 doesn't.