Comment 9 for bug 508435
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| NovA (av-nova) wrote Re: If torrent file was updated on tracker (added new file) qbittorrent not indicate about this | #9 |
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Zsolt Peter Basak:
>Never seen a tracker where one could change .torrent files.
>Maybe after deleting the whole torrent and making a new upload from scratch.
>But replacing the torrent file? How is that even possible to detect?
Yep, it's about deleting the whole torrent and uploading a new one. And yes you can't detect directly whether a new torrent available or not. But it can be definitely detected that the old one is not registered anymore. And if so, the user is supposed to check for update an appropriate page (e.g. forum post) from where he downloaded .torrent file originally.
This kind of constantly re-uploaded torrents is very popular on some private trackers for seeding seasons of tv-series. When a new episode is released, the season's torrent is updated by adding a new file. It's not too convenient actually, but lowers down a load on the tracker and seeders - it's better to seed one big torrent then a bunch of small ones.
Anyway, the proposed feature is NOT concerns of such special kind torrents/trackers only. Yes it is really important for them, but it's also useful for everyone I think. Some noticeable indication about a torrent error is a nice feature, isn't it? I can imagine many different types of tracker errors - torrent is deleted, tracker is down, tracker ban your client for some reason, connection is down, etc. For all of these qBitTorrent do not show anything in the transfer list for now...