Working with incomplete torrents.......

[DutchDude]

What i would like is to be able to go into the filelist and have 2 buttons which do the following:

1) Delete all downloaded content of INCOMPLETE files (effectively zero them out)

2) Set all these files to 'Do not download state'

Why ?

A ) Well there are a lot of .torrents that are only partially complete and have no seeders left for them to be ever completed in the (near) future. But it would like to keep seeding the incomplete torrent without flooding other clients with useless data (remember a lot of sites are ratio based), and having those imcomplete files waste my precious HD space.

Preferebly this should only be available for stopped torrents.

B ) It takes the hassle out of having to go to the download directory and manually delete all incomplete files. With a torrent as for e.g. Mame which contains 5000+ files this is a undoable job....

Well ? What do you think ?

[thatoneguy]

IS there a way to complete incomplete torrents. I have this one torrent and there are zero seeder but yet it still downloads. Weird. Help.

[Invy]

that's not weird. you're just downloading what the peers have. but still it won't finish unless there's a seeder. and no, there's not way to complete torrents if there's no seeder.

[nos_slived]

Not entirely true. A file can be completely available in a swarm without seeds as long as all pieces are possessed by at least one peer. Those peers will eventually turn into seeds, but it is completely possible to become the first seed in a swarm full of peers.

[Honeyfrog]

I have, rarely, managed to resurrect a dying torrent by finding missing files on eMule, adding them into the torrent download folder, re-checking, and becoming a new seed.

[Switeck]

I've found the file/s hosted as torrents elsewhere and become a seeder that way.