better file selection

[zinnium]

We need to have a better way to make individual file selection. For example say I am downloading from a torrent that has 2 or 3 thousand different files and I am just looking for one or two specific files. Right now we have to go through the whole list to find them but a simple "ctrl-f" would be awesome, or even making the file tab more like the current version of the file explorer in windows vista. this way we can sort also by file type, do a partial word search and etc....

[jewelisheaven]

I'm sure this is previously requested. The developers changed the Add Dialog some in 1.8 already and we anticipate it changing more. If you want to check out the beta for yourself, get it from the Announcements forum and run it http://utorrent.com/faq.php#How_can_I_share_my_torrents_between_user_profiles.3F so it doesn't affect current settings.

In any case, thousands of files?!? Do you know how much overhead that adds to a torrent....I recently found a torrent with 350 KiB of FILENAME data (actually double that because it was created by Azureus and had TWO entries per file.. one ASCII, one utf-8)... meaning the hash payload was under 2 KiB.... for all that torrent ><

[zinnium]

Thousands of files is some what not uncommon when we are e-booking in college. Trying to find a specific text in a collection of about a thousand other books can be quite crazy, but we do this so one torrent covers all. I hate it but it makes since. We also do this for large collections of music; like the 1001 songs. or say we find a collection of a video series that has 300+ episodes, but we just want one or two key episodes.

I'll hold off on playing with the beta for a few more weeks to allow more tweaking.

Something that could really help is to add a file "type" column selector into the file tab. What got me to write this was when I was looking for a "keygen.exe" file in the list of other files on a download the other day.

[jewelisheaven]

That is previously requested the most recent being http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=37485 and http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=6749 is the oldest with "file type" in the title, which references the even older post http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=1943

What tweaking are you doing?

I still think people who package any more than 1000 files per torrent deserve to be publically flogged. Sure drive space is cheap. But for the afforementioned file.... that's the size of 50 of my other torrents in my 12000 torrent directory.

[zinnium]

My tweaking is somewhat minor and for a different reason. I'm running on a gigabit line and what I am having problems is with peers that do not upload but only download. I seem to get filled up with peers like that so what I have going on is a simple script that checks the seasonal forecasting (10s seasons) of the up and down rates from the peer and if it finds abuse; I ping their IP address to death. I have it set for a forecasting 1:3 (down:up)ratio since I can upload more from this location. before I did this I could see downloading rates around .1Mb/sec and uploading rates of 10Mb/s+, and I was getting pissed. now I am running at least running 1:2.5 ratios or better in all torrents.

I looked up those past post and they still just need to do it. makes life just simple, and a lot of times. A program called bit lord did this to an extent (www.bitlord.com) and I really liked the program, but it just never got updated and I then switched to Utorrent.

[jewelisheaven]

Death Ping>< That brings back memories of WinNuke. I think something like this would be implemented eventually, so just be patient

[zinnium]

LOL..... I like doing it. I have an ex of mine that really pissed me off. and I've been pinging her router for 5 months from my cluster. I hate those pay to torrent sites and lately I think that has been my real drag on the download speeds. Smart programming is what will kill them.

[virdicyer]

.... Ok then ... Pretty much every forum I know of shuns thread revival; but since the admins tossed my post in the trash and told me to post here then fine.

Back to the subject of the first post... Torrents with hundreds or even thousands of files take forever to skim through and pick what you want ...And yes, they are quite common where I snag my torrents since it's easier to seed one torrent than a few hundred. An ability to do a search for files containing certain text would help a lot -- preferably in both the "Add New Torrent" dialog or "Files" tab.

The thread is ~3 months old, so... has it been decided if it's going to be implemented or not?

jewelisheaven on 2008-04-19 16:11:42 wrote:

I'm sure this is previously requested. The developers changed the Add Dialog some in 1.8 already and we anticipate it changing more. If you want to check out the beta for yourself, get it from ...

I'm looking at the beta now and I don't see it. Is it planned for a future release then?

[Firon]

1.8 is.. finished, so you won't see it in this release. I don't know if we're going to implement a file search.

[homeagain]

Just wanted to add my support to this. It'd be great to have an input field that finds files as you type...

This is especially useful if there's a lot of folders and sub folders.

I made an example so you can see what I mean:

[takarada]

I want to add my support to this.

Quite a few torrents now have 1000s of files.

For example one torrent I downloaded has 10,112 files in it.

This is the torrent that caused me to switch from Azureus to uTorrent as Azureus could not handle this many files very well.

Organizing a torrent this way makes perfect sense as you can then search for and only download the few files that interest you.

If you have a search function...

The above torrent is almost impossible to selectively download in uTorrent as you would have to scroll and visually search for a long time to find what you want.

While this is an extreme example torrents of 50-60 files are quite common but also difficult to search for a selective download.

So this would be a useful addition to uTorrent functionality and not really that difficult to implement.

Thanks in advance...