some way to tell finished torrents from unfinished ones

[David Prieto]

Binary package hint: transmission

Since Transmission does not store partially downloaded files in a specific location, it becomes really hard to tell finished items from unfinished ones in the file manager. Could it maybe give unfinished stuff a special extension, for example .part? Epiphany does that for unfinished downloads.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

upstream xref: http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/627

[Irios (irios)]

I think the gravity of this bug is way beyond "Wishlist", and close to "showstopper", at least as far as Transmission is concerned. There are other programs, like Azureus, which don't share this problem, so the bug is not tremendously important in the general scheme of things.

But really, with no way to tell which files are completely downloaded, Transmission is almost useless in all but the simplest cases.

[thewallis1992 (thewallis1992)]

Save unfinished torrents to another folder perhaps?
At least thats what i can do with my mac and transmission(I save unfinished downloads to Incomplete instead of Downloads)

[Hew (hew)]

The upstream bug has been closed, but it's not really what this bug is about. The reporter was asking for some way to differentiate between complete and incomplete files outside of transmission. The simplest way to do this is to implement a "keep incomplete files in <directory>" feature, as apparently the mac client already has.

[DaCoTa (cptagliola)]

Another use-case for the separate temp folder is the following: the temp folder could be on the OS drive and the destination folder on a different drive, say a shared network drive or a NAS. Without the separate folder, the external drive or the NAS needs to have the drives powered up for the complete duration of all downloads. If the temp is on the OS drive, the external drive or NAS can power down all drives and only needs to wake up when a download is complete and the finished files are transferred over. Especially with increasingly popular RAID NAS systems, this would have quite an impact on power consumption.

[Irios (irios)]

That is what I do with Azureus. It has the added advantage that if the final
destination is in an NTFS partition, you save ENORMOUS fragmentation by
copying the file in one go. Files torrented onto an NTFS drive can end up in
literally thousands of fragments!

2009/6/22 DaCoTa <email address hidden>

> Another use-case for the separate temp folder is the following: the temp
> folder could be on the OS drive and the destination folder on a
> different drive, say a shared network drive or a NAS. Without the
> separate folder, the external drive or the NAS needs to have the drives
> powered up for the complete duration of all downloads. If the temp is on
> the OS drive, the external drive or NAS can power down all drives and
> only needs to wake up when a download is complete and the finished files
> are transferred over. Especially with increasingly popular RAID NAS
> systems, this would have quite an impact on power consumption.
>
> --
> some way to tell finished torrents from unfinished ones
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183501
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[Mike.lifeguard (mikelifeguard)]

Fix released for what? I don't see any available updates.

[Hew (hew)]

See the linked upstream report - this will be fixed with transmission 1.80.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04 now. Thanks for reporting.