How do you manage mega torrents? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

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[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm pretty sure most torrent applications have a "set location" button on the torrents, which automatically moves the torrent to the location you choose.

I know that qbittorrent also allows you to rename files and folders within the torrent.

The only thing that I have not seen possible is to change the directory structure within a torrent - i.e. move files one directory level up to "flatten" it. If a file is within three nested folders, then it is always like that, but you are able to change both the file and folder names, just have to do it from within the torrent client so that it can pick that change up.

But what you can always do is use filesystem links instead of moving the actual files around, keeping the actual torrent files in some invisible data directory and only "operating" on the links. Works more or less well depending on your OS :D

[-] astrsk@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can change directories with deluge. When renaming a file, just enter a / between each directory. The ui will fix the hierarchy once you accept the change.