qbittorrent pre-allocates unneeded files

[Veksha]

1. open .torrent file
2. mark all files in torrent as "ignored", except one file.
3. press "Add" button
4. start download

Expected result: only non-ingored files are pre-allocated

Actual result: ALL files are pre-allocated.

[Veksha (veksha)]

version v1.5.0 beta 4

[Veksha (veksha)]

actual for version 1.5.1

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

I'm waiting for an easier support for this in libtorrent-rasterbar. At the moment, although libtorrent-rasterbar may allow it, the solution is complicated and not elegant. I asked libtorrent author to add a simpler mecanism and I hope he can implement it soon.

[nE0sIghT (ne0sight)]

Any progress in this issue? Maybe fill bugreport to libtorrent's bugtracker?

[ustass (u-stass1)]

Same problem!

[ustass (u-stass1)]

It's not LOW importance! It's really problem. For example: I need one 100Mb file of 50Gb .torrent. Program pre-allocates 50Gb! I haven't unlimited disk space! Next: I delete all unneeded files, but after restarting program it's re-allocate all of unneeded files!
Option "pre-allocate all files" works impropertly. It's really pre-allocate ALL files...

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

Forwarding to the libtorrent author again.

[40rozbojnik (40rozbojnik)]

I have the same problem. This is a very tedious :(

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

According to http://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/issues/detail?id=92#c9 this is fixed in libtorrent-rasterbar.

The commit in question appears to be http://libtorrent.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libtorrent?view=revision&revision=4683 and it has not been released yet (will be in 0.16 probably).

[pisya (2e450a)]

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5784/29756780.gif

[40rozbojnik (40rozbojnik)]

It would really be the best program for torrents, but this mistake spoils the whole effect :( (sorry for any mistakes, I use Google Translate)

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

@Daniel: Yes, the fix will be in libtorrent v0.16. However, qBittorrent is still based on v0.14 or v0.15, which is why the issue is still there. The good news is that the fix is coming.

[Neuro (neuro-picnics)]

In my case, I mark for download 5th and 6th of 6 files (450~500 Mb each) while adding torrent. After downloading I saw 3 of them: 4th (0.6%), 5th (100%), 6th (100%).
When I delete 4th file and recheck torrent, I saw this: 4th - 0%, 5th - 98,8%, 6th - 100%. QBittorrent starts this torrent, preallocate 4th file again, download 0.6% of 4th and 0.2% of 5th and stopped. I got 2 full needed files and 1 preallocated unneeded file again.

[Artamonov Denis (dart77)]

and qbittorent pre-allocates empty folders with torrent stukture and status not downloading

[Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)]

This should be fixed in v2.6.0 (to be released tomorrow).

[Veksha (veksha)]

i can't believe)

[nE0sIghT (ne0sight)]

Thanks a lot, Christophe!
Which version of libtorrent needed for this feature to work?