Padding file

[BobbyBobBob]

When downloading something from a website, what does it mean by a padding file??............its says (padding file, if you see this file please update to bitcomet 0.85 or above)
thanks...............also it does give you the option to unmark all the padding files if you dont want to download them, but will this result in the whole download not workin g properly??

[rojash]

Starting with version 0.85 (Early 2007), BitComet added an option to its torrent maker that ensures that no two data files in a multi-file torrent occupy the same BitTorrent "piece." This helps enable BitComet to download different parts of a multi-file torrent from non-BitTorrent sources such as http/ftp servers or the ED2K network. To accomplish this, BitComet fills the remainder of each last "piece" with an intervening padding file. While these small and harmless files are transparent to the BitComet user, they can be an annoyance to users of other clients who must deal with them both during and after the download. Creation of padding files was enabled by default in version 0.85, and disabled by default in version 0.86 onward

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitComet

No, unmarking them won't result in the whole download not working properly.