When you have some torrent where there is a huge collection of files only some of which you want right now, but maybe you will come back to it later to get something else.

Example: This is a listing for torrents of audiobooks from The Eye. (Alphabetically by author, one torrent per letter.)

So I don’t want to download every audiobook ever. I selectively choose which to download. Then the torrent is “completed” when those are done. But I want to keep them around because maybe later I want something else. I just leave them in the queue?

In the torrent apps I’ve used, they seem to get confused by these. If you move the downloaded file to a proper location in your filesystem, then it is having a “missing files” error, unable to seed, and the torrent is in error state. But if you leave the obtained files, it’s still in the “not yet downloaded” directory forever.

Wondering if there is some smart way of managing this, or what?

  • BlackFlagsForever@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I usually keep a copy of the torrent in a folder just for those kind of torrents. then I make a copy in my qbittorent autoadd folder and tell qbit to not download anything except just the stuff i want before i start the torrent.

    part of that is cuz i have my client set to auto-allocate space and don’t want some 50+GB thing eating all of my hdd space for temp files i might not even be interested in.