In the files tab, I clicked the checkbox on a folder by mistake instead of the + to expand and ktorrent deleted all the files in that folder (all 4GB) not happy
v2.01

Didn't you get prompted like : "You'll loose all your files if you deselect this. Are you sure? YES-NO?" ???

No i didn't

Please read "I did a very stupid thing - is there any chance of recovery?"

actually files should not be deleted anyway - so that already dl'ed chunks of them could be uploaded.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134597

but it seems that ktorrent is very comfortable client for leechers

shafff wrote:actually files should not be deleted anyway - so that already dl'ed chunks of them could be uploaded.

We added this because if you only want to download 500 MB of a 2 GB torrent you would only use 500 MB of diskspace. If you don't mind the disk usage, why do you need to deselect them ?

George wrote:

shafff wrote:actually files should not be deleted anyway - so that already dl'ed chunks of them could be uploaded.

We added this because if you only want to download 500 MB of a 2 GB torrent you would only use 500 MB of diskspace. If you don't mind the disk usage, why do you need to deselect them ?

Because I don't want to download them now? I might want to later, say, after previous episodes finish? No reason to throw out pieces I might already have.

Situation I've found myself in:

1: download a lot of stuff from a torrent with many episodes.
2: decide I want to get episode 1 first
3: deselect others so I download episode 1 to completion first (but knowing I'll want to finish the others later)
4: whoops! all the pieces I had of the other eps (which I will want to finish later) are deleted!
5: ?
6: profit!

Ktorrent seems way to eager to delete things. At any rate, delete and stop downloading (for now at least should be separate actions.

MamiyaOtaru wrote:Because I don't want to download them now? I might want to later, say, after previous episodes finish? No reason to throw out pieces I might already have.

Isn't the "download first/download last" feature in the infowidget plugin for this? Just right click the file name.

We've changed the way KTorrent handles deselected files recently, you should read the announcement here on forums. KTorrent no longer deletes your files unless you explicitly request that from context menu in InfoWidget.