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Ability to seed renamed files


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After downloading a tv series for example, all the files are named in scene release format.

eg.

TV.Show.S1E01.PROPER.PDTV.XVid.Bob.avi

TV.Show.S1E02.PROPER.PDTV.XVid.Bob.avi

TV.Show.S1E03.PROPER.PDTV.XVid.Bob.avi

I prefer my files being named differently.

eg.

TV Show - 101 - Episode one name.avi

TV Show - 102 - Episode two name.avi

TV Show - 103 - Episode three name.avi

The problem is if i rename the files i can no longer seed the torrent.

It would be nice if there was a feature that let you remap the torrents names to the new names on the disk, which would let me leave the torrent seeding instead of cancelling it. Basically something that uses the crc/checksum of the file rather than the physical name.

Is it possible to allow this filename mapping on a future torrent?

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  • 6 months later...

To help those looking for it the 1.8 ßeta thread

To evaluate the renamed file feature, click a torrent, go to files tab, click on column headers enable destination, right click on a specific file, then browse to different path. :D

Aside from not renaming the filenames in the torrent, this also allows spanned sets of files in a torrent :D

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Stop the torrent, go to Files tab, right click, relocate.

In the latest you no longer need to open a specific files dialog when you select multiple files, only a directory. So this may mean you either 1) do them individually, or 2) do all the ones to each FOLDER you look for them in, and then right click relocate each file to be sure IT is named correctly.

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Hello,

I've tried the steps outlined above, but unless I'm doing something wrong, it doesn't seem to work - I've stopped the torrent, but after relocating each file of the directory (because I have renamed them) and resuming the torrent, uTorrent starts to download the original files again.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm using 1.8.

Thanks in advance,

Rubens

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You will need to right click, force recheck after performing the Relocate option :) That should get you back to where you should be (100%)

Edit: A tidbit which may also be useful, when doing relocate, you can do multiple simultaneously if you highlight them with either Shift- or Ctrl- click and RELOCATE. The box pops up for the next file right after you click OK on the preceding file.

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Thanks for the reply!

'Force Recheck' seems to have done the trick in terms of avoiding the download of the old-named files again. But it *did* downlaod the content anyway, that is, overwritting the (renamed) files. For some reason it seems uTorrent does not recognize the content I already had.

Also, I couldn't reproduce what you have described - I had to relocate file by file, right-clicking each one individually...

Thanks again,

Rubens

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It worked for me... what you should be able to do is only highlight everything once, then use the relocate menu function and it should pop up all the dialogs seqentially.

As far as it not rechecking the files.. Is it possible the files aren't the same? I.E. they're not the same size (first indicator) and not from the same place (many times files are given "tags" where they came from).

The next time (or if you don't mind on these files again) you do that, don't start it between. I know sometimes that causes troubles.

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