Custom delete function for preserving piece integrity

[martix]

I suggest in the pieces tab to have an option like "Skip and delete" or whatever works for you guys.

The main point being that it deletes the file, but preserves the integrity of pieces if they are shared among other files, putting redundant data from the deleted file in the usual partfiles.

Right now, you have to delete, recheck and redownload part of the files that were actually intact.

[Firon]

We don't even have a delete function for individual files. Why would we add this?

[martix]

When using windows' delete you go through aforementioned procedure, which is a pain, especially if there are no seeds, which breaks files.

This one is meant to delete files without breaking them, by preserving the piece that is shared among multiple files if one of those files happens to be the one you wanna get rid of.

[Firon]

You're not really supposed to be removing files from torrents in the first place. If you don't have enough space, get a bigger hard drive. Delete/remove the entire torrent when you're finished seeding.

[Porter]

I would like to see that feature, too.

Just recently I had a 40GB-Torrent with many files, that I could not and did not want to download completely. Most of the time, you don't even know, which files in a torrent you would like to keep and which you don't. If you are short on disk space this feature is especially useful. I'm one of the guys who migrated from Azureus, because I didn't like how bloated Azureus was, but I really liked Azureus for having this feature and therefore I'm missing it in utorrent.

To sum up I would really like to have a delete button in the context menu, Azureus-style.

Thanks.

[DreadWingKnight]

Cross-file pieces cause problems with this.

[Porter]

It's obviously not about the problem, because Azureus has this feature, but about the developer's willingness to implement it.

I just wanted to say that it's not impossible.

[Firon]

Not impossible, but difficult and not worth the effort. Plus, we don't really want to support the practice of deleting individual files.

[Porter]

You make it sound like deleting files is some sort of crime or it's at least an act against morality and I still wonder why.

What's the underlying idea besides the complexity of the problem?

[Firon]

It encourages people to download large torrents and delete individual files before they've actually seeded it.

[Porter]

I'll have to admit: you've got a point there.

On the other hand I usually don't check whether a torrent is already seeded enough with a ratio of more then 1.0 when I delete it, so I think this thread http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=54351 is discussing an important feature. Some kind of visual representation would be nice.

Furthermore I'd like to comment on discouraging vs. encouraging people in order for them to do the right thing:

I know people who train dogs and they told me, that they don't discourage bad behaviour by penalties, but rather ignore bad behaviour. This means, that they actively encourage good behaviour by giving the dog treats or petting him. Maybe you should try this philosophy and see how it turns out.

[Kelqualyn]

For example...

torrent is too large... more than size of HDD...

TV series... ~100 Episodes

Every time you delete watched series, you need to rehash all downloaded but not watched...

It's impossable to seed whole torrent. But,if you try to seed maximum of individual series, you'll need to rehash all of them every time you download new one (and delelete old)...