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Also known as: filler file
A junk file added to a release so the archive rounds up to a tidy volume count or a target size. Names run to things like padding.bin or a string of zeroes, and the contents carry no information. PAR2 still computes recovery over them, which wastes a little transfer. Post-processing usually deletes them, though some clients leave them in the completed folder.
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