It appears that if you do not have enough disk space to start a given torrent and KTorrent is set to not start downloads when low on disk space, KTorrent complains that you cannot start more than X number of torrents where X is the maximum number of torrents that can be downloaded. This is particularly confusing when the maximum is 0 (no limit), but even if it's 99, the result is the same. The error dialog is shown with that number and the torent won't start. When I ran into this, I changed the settings so that it asks whether to start torrents on low disk space and in that case, if I told it that I did not want to start the torrent (when I tried to start it and the dialog informing of low disk space popped up), then after telling it not to start the torrent, it still popped up the error dialog about not being able to start X torrents (0 in my case). When I told it that yes, I _did_ want to start the torrent, then the dialog about not be able to start more than X torrents didn't pop up and I was able to start the torrent.

I would think that in the case where KTorrent is set _not_ to start torrents on low disk space (the default I believe), that it inform you that that is why it cannot start a torrent instead of complaining about the max torrent limit which has nothing to do with the problem. I assume the current weird behavior is there because not enough folks have run out of disk space when trying to start torrents for it to be reported previously.

P.S. I'm currently using the 2007-04-28 SVN snapshot.

svn up

Well, I actually downloaded and installed the 2007-05-05 SVN snapshot right after posting this. I take it that you mean that the fix is in there?

Yeah, you now get a message that there is not enough diskspace.

However there is still a bug with the diskspace check, it doesn't take into account preallocated files, we still need to fix this.

Well, in any case, it's one step closer to what it should be. Thanks.