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Can I download torrents without allocating space for the whole file?


Rael

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I'm downloading a bunch of torrents but some of these are really slow and are going to take days or weeks, but in the mean time they are taking a bunch of disk space. is there a way to only use disk space for what has actually been downloaded? By the time these get done I will have freed up space by burning to disk and deleted the torrents that downloaded fast.

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You can turn on diskio.sparse_files in the Advanced section of the preferences. But this option doesn't work right on Vista (due to a bug in Vista). Unfortunately, it will only apply to newly downloaded files, not ones that already exist.

I do hope you're seeding your torrents before removing them from your client.

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