jhn195 Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 The current "Size" column will displayed the full size of the torrent even if you're doing selective downloading. It will be great if the column can reflect only the actual size of the files you're downloading. Not only this will look better but it actually helps you to prepared beforehand how much space you actually need.Eg if you're downloading only half the files in a 4GB size torrent, it should list out 2GB/4GB or 2GB(4GB). If you only need 400MB then it should list out 400MB/4GB or 400MB(4GB)Please vote YES! here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 26, 2005 Report Share Posted December 26, 2005 The size column doesn't adjust to the selected amount, but the % done column does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhn195 Posted December 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 The size column doesn't adjust to the selected amount.Hence the request but the % done column does.It will be easier to see in KB/MB/GB rather than % but the % can reflect how much you have downloaded for the files you have selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 The % sign already does adjust to the selected files size, and when you complete all the files, it shows 100% too. As for the size column... I just feel like it should be left alone. lol I'm lacking an explanation at the moment -- it's just a feeling I have about people (like meeee xD) getting confused from the column's changed number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhn195 Posted December 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Yeah but it only happen if you have started the download and it still vague. Don't see how it will confused people who's doing selective downloading. It's pretty obvious :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorizonX Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I think this is a pretty valid idea. Just make a note that it's not the size of the whole torrent by marking the truncated value with an indicator, like the size of the complete torrent in parentheses as mentioned, or maybe some sort of descriptive tag, like for selective? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleh Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 yeah, I've been annoyed by this aswell, you know the percentage is correct, yet the size column isn't! perhaps a new thing such as "downloading [P]" for partial download would suffice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 The tags sound like a better idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Ah... that solution of tagging would work... IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 I like the idea of 10.5 GB (30.9 GB) in the size column instead. This way, you can sort by the partial size, instead of the total size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 Another varient of selective download is what I did just recently with a series of files. I already had some of them and started the torrent already able to upload.Much to my surprise, I reached my set seeding limit a lot sooner than I expected because µTorrent didn't count the whole filesize for the basis of how much to seed -- only what I downloaded.I did not see in advance or even a little ways in (short of grabbing a calculator and doing some math) that I didn't have to seed the whole torrent 100+% to meet my seeding requirement. Sadly, it meant my connection was idle and not uploading for possibly a couple hours before I could start the torrent back up with an increased seed limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 It does make sense though, you download 5GB, so if you set 150% ratio, you'd upload 7.5GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolbysnoopy Posted December 29, 2005 Report Share Posted December 29, 2005 You can make "Remaining" column shown to make it clear how many MB left for download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 I'm just about to post a request....This thread is what I want.I strongly support the idea of "10.5 GB (30.9 GB) ". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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