Shoie13 Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I happened to have two separate torrents in my list of torrents, and the only real difference in them was that one only had one tracker and the other had several, but both torrents were saving to the same file. The first torrent was inactive, and the second torrent was downloading. Forgetting this, I clicked the inactive torrent and told it to delete torrent + data, and it deleted everything. Since the second torrent was DOWNLOADING to the file I just deleted, shouldn't it have given some type of warning saying the folder was in use by Utorrent since it was downloading to that folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Err.. did it actually delete the files? Did you see any errors in the Logger tab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillowcase Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 A better idea would be to fix the problem of two torrents writing to the same file. Isn't that a bug in and of itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 He didn't say they were both writing to it. They were both pointing to it.I have had up to 4 torrents pointing to the same file actively.. there's no bug about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillowcase Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Err...by pointing to it you mean have it as the destination file right? In that case won't you end up downloading the same file 4 times over? As far as I know the torrents only check the file when you force recheck, so wouldn't those 4 torrents be unaware of what the other 3 have downloaded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Theoretically if one actually TRIED DOWNLOADING to the same file 4 times, all but one will give "access denied" at different times. Sorry I didn't specify I was UPLOADING all 4 torrents (how did they have different INFOHASHs you ask? private torrents, different sites, different included keys, different piecesizes) at the same time, not downloading It wouldn't get that far on multiple instances to get to the piecedump in my experience. Though I DO have to say when I was futzing with some Ext partition and downloads I was able to FUBAR a couple GBs of stuff because i ran out of space. It showed as 100% until a restart, or power outage... wait yea that was the day my power outage cost me membership in a shitty private tracker because their admins lack common sense. anywayAlso note OP said 1 was active 1 was inactive, so no "problem" per se. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoie13 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Yes, it actually deleted the files. The torrent that was downloading immediately stopped and gave an error of the file missing. I did a force recheck and it went from 17% back to .3% and 16MB completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillowcase Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Maybe they should put a warning thing on there like "Warning: one of your other torrents is using this file. Are you sure you want to continue?" or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 It's.. sort of your problem if you're overwriting your own files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoie13 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 No.. it's a bug. It should realize it's writing two torrents to one location. I didn't overwrite anything, I deleted a file the program was using and then it lost the data. How is that my fault? Windows Explorer won't let me have two of the same file with the same filename in the same location, it'll warn me that one is overwriting the other. Why should Utorrent be any different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Because explorer doesn't verify any data before doing stuff. Explorer just overwrites everything immediately.It just doesn't work for torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoie13 Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Utorrent should at least check to make sure there are no conflicting torrents. Surely it's not that hard to verify a folder name before a new torrent is added or if one is deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 ... I have 4201 torrents loaded into my 1.7 stable. Granted I don't have all of them active at once (which is actually the rub in this scenario). Having to check through 4K+ paths whenever I want to change something is needless overhead. If you had "delete to trash" enabled on the right click for remove then you can not-start the active torrent again, un-delete the files from the recycling bin, and continue as before. It is not a bug, since uT did what you told it to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoie13 Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I didn't delete the active torrent. As I said, one was inactive and the other was active, but both were basically the same and were saving to the same file. I deleted the inactive one, which also deleted the active one.The bug is this: If the ACTIVE ONE is using the folder I just deleted, why did it not stop me? It should be a simple check for Utorrent to check the folder to make sure it's not downloading to it before it lets you delete it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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