Downloading Files One by One

[nikhilm89]

Is there any way to download individual files within a torrent one by one? For example, suppose I'm downloading a TV show that has about a hundred episodes. If I try to download all of them at once it will take me about a week (I have a relatively slow internet connection). And I can't watch even a single episode until the whole thing has been downloaded. So instead, I download the episodes one or two at a time so that I can watch the individual episodes as I download them. But this is a tedious process.

I was wondering if there was any way to queue up individual files within a torrent so that they download one by one successively. If I was trying to do this for multiple torrents (as opposed to multiple files within a single torrent) then all I have to do is set the maximum number of active downloads to 1 and queue up the rest of the torrents. But how do I do the same thing for multiple files within the same torrent? If there is some way I can do it, that is.

[Ultima]

µTorrent 3.0 has a "Prioritize by File Order" option. Other than that, no, not really -- not unless you prioritize files manually.

[BeckiMason]

When i do this i set the first episode to high priority, (right click file within the files tab in the detailed info window)

I set the second to normal and the rest to low.

If the next time i look the first is finished, i set the second to high and the third to normal.

Follow this pattern until finished.

Not a perfect solution but it does do the job, after the first you should have a rough idea how long to wait between checks.