saboteur Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 In multiple-file torrent, sometime I can get files by another way, and want to add them. But if torrent are very big (20-50-100 video files) - recheck full torrent get much amount of time.How about add feature to re-check selected file on file tab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 Do what I do and start a client on a second computer (or a virtual machine in vmware/virtual pc) and resume the file there, then have one forcibly connect to the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted November 27, 2005 Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 I don't understand the need to re-check files. Each piece is checked before it is ever saved, so the fact that you downloaded the piece indicates that it's a good. The only possible way that it could get corrupted is if your hard drive is damaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saboteur Posted November 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 @DreadWingKnightYou proposing to install whole virtual PC in front of add little feature? Or to buy second computer?It is really Great suggestion.... :/@NiteShdwExample:Group of people downloading big multi-file torrent.My friend at my home has downloaded a few ones, and I downloaded another ones.We can exchange completed files across our local network within few seconds, and than I want to replace completed file in my torrent.Than i want to re-check this file in torrent.This situation repeating few times again and again.This feature will be great for me and my friends, and I think that many users agreed with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 We can exchange completed files across our local network within few seconds, and than I want to replace completed fileJust add his <LAN IP>:<PORT> as a peer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saboteur Posted November 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 And what it does for me?What if I can to get some files by "floppynet"? (HDDNET) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 I would really like this feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 Just add his <LAN IP>:<PORT> as a peer.This is the best option. This means that you are constantly in sync with him - as µT should take advantage of the fast connection... much better idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shr Posted January 25, 2006 Report Share Posted January 25, 2006 It is not so often you have to recheck torrent, and it takes acceptable time even for DVD9 (about 5-10 min). From my point of view it is to prodigally to spend developers time on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted January 26, 2006 Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 it used to take more time before, sometimes it would take the same time as checking every file even if not existant, i like it the way it is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnQ Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 I would REALLY like this feature.Useful if you have a large multi-file torrent, and then later discover that you have already downloaded one or two of the files. You can copy them into place, and then just recheck the files that you copied instead of rechecking the entire torrent.Mostly this feature is only useful to people who feel comfortable with deliberatly changing/copying/replacing the partially downloaded files with data that they expect to be better than the partial download that is already there... I am one of those people :-)And apparently saboteur and Knight are too :-)Besides, I cant imagine that this would be a difficult modification. 90% of the code is already there.-JohnQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmlime Posted March 26, 2006 Report Share Posted March 26, 2006 I have space concerns(old laptop with low disk space around 112 megs) and have to delete the large files that a torrent has after using them, but the force recheck on a .5-2 gig torrent every time I remove an individual file is painful to both me and the machine I utilize. That's not to say that while I sleep I don't seed the files(I have high ratio's), but when I'm up, and done with the file(usually its video and done watching it) I have to delete it to make room for the next file.A force recheck of an individual file would both extend the lifetime of my precious machine(minor concern but major for some people) and save my time(significance varies from person to person).Thank you for your time!Click here to vote yes for this feature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goka Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 I have space concernsExactly. That might not be a problem for a torrent < 1 GB, as you can arguably download it as a whole and trash it likewise. But then there are a lot of > 6 GB or even up to > 20 GB torrents. It would be much appreciated, if one could delete some part of the torrent without the need to re-check everything else. If it were possible to re-check parts of the torrent, maybe there could also be an option to directly delete files of a torrent (silently triggering that re-checking). That would save the need of shutting down µTorrent first to delete the files (if µ is running the files are locked - for a good reason imho). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 no... utorrent locks the files when it is using them, u just have to stop the torrent, not close utorrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goka Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 no... utorrent locks the files when it is using them, u just have to stop the torrent, not close utorrentI checked that again and there were definitively times, where the files were locked, though the torrent was not running. Might also be the fault of me opening the files before (though I did close them afterwards), but starting and stopping the torrent solved the problem. However I must admit, that I sometimes really wanted to delete some files, while the torrent was running, because I was kinda running out of disk space.Back to topic: Nevertheless if µ would implement this feature, there would not be any need to stop the torrent, which would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 I wouldn't count on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 +1 ...I really, really want selective file-checking. Torrents are getting monstrous, and bigger all the time with all the HD and multi-season stuff out there. If I think episode 4x13 of a four-season compilation is bad after I've goofed with it a bit, I'd like to check just that file (and a couple pieces into the adjacent files) instead of having to wait for the endless slog through the first 95% of ten gigs. Or, if I think ep1x01 is bad but know that the rest is fine, I'd like to stop the recheck scan after just that file without dealing with: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=260656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass_UA Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 +1 The feature is really needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 I believe files marked as "do not download" are not scanned at all when rechecking. (you can verify this by highlighting files tab when in check mode. You will see Modes switch from blank to read... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 No good for incomplete files, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 The average HD 1hr TV show is 14gb now .... Waiting for a recheck is Chinese water-torture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The8472 Posted December 14, 2007 Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 rechecking can be done at your disk read speed, let's say 80MB/s, that's 3 minutes for checking for 14GB, and if you have to recheck 14 GB regularly then you're doing something wrong. And fyi... 1hr of HDTV is 14GB when it's a raw mpeg2 transport steam, which is a waste of space, HDTV in h.264 is much smaller.And any legal TV shows to download in HDTV i know of do not use mpeg2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted December 15, 2007 Report Share Posted December 15, 2007 +1(Will save precious minutes of my life, not to mention my hard disk's life too. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeyfrog Posted December 16, 2007 Report Share Posted December 16, 2007 rechecking can be done at your disk read speed, let's say 80MB/s, that's 3 minutes for checking for 14GB...In the ideal world, where absolutely NOTHING else is I/O'ing the drive at the same time (such as, say, all my other torrents), it might be that quick.But it's never that quick. It's never half that quick. It's not a quarter that quick if your DL platform is an older machine pressed into dedicated duty off in the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 17, 2007 Report Share Posted December 17, 2007 Them's spitting words. I am getting ~ 50% throughput, and as I said before I'm thinking it's due to bus speed and ram.However I wouldn't mind any improvements in the checking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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