Hi, all nice KDE people out there,

I am a newbie to the Linux community, having recently migrated (for good!) from that sh*t called Windows and one of my first tweaks was to find a decent P2P client to use instead of the pretty basic Transmission that came preinstalled with Linux Mint 17 Xfce and of course my FIRST and only option was Ktorrent. It looked like it had all the features I was used to with uTorrent. Unfortunately I was disappointed with one feature that surprisingly enough was missing from this otherwise perfect program, namely the option to add some kind of extension to each file that was not yet fully downloaded. For example in uTorrent v.2.12 this extension is called ".!ut" and for Trasmission is called ".part".

This feature is very handy because otherwise (like in the current Ktorrent implementation) you can never know in a folder of files in your active downloading directory (and which has not yet being finished and moved to your finished download directory) which files are already completed and good for being copied/used and which ones are still incomplete and which may cause the program that opens it to crash. An even worse situation is if the download hangs unfinished without a perspective of finishing: how can you retrieve the "good" finished files that you may want to keep from the "junk" of unfinished files that you want to delete ?

So, for now I had to uninstall Ktorrent and wait for the next implementation of this otherwise very good, very capable program.


Requested Feature in Short: To Implement an Extension to Add to Partially Dowloaded Files - Suggested Name of the Extension: ".Kpart"

As long as I've been using Ktorrent, which is some years, it has always named partially downloading files with .part. You can specify where you want files to download to, and even where to move them if you want. Why would you want a non-standard extension? .part is standard, and Ktorrent uses it.

valoriez wrote:As long as I've been using Ktorrent, which is some years, it has always named partially downloading files with .part. You can specify where you want files to download to, and even where to move them if you want. Why would you want a non-standard extension? .part is standard, and Ktorrent uses it.

I really, really hope you aren't confused.

Are you sure that it adds .part to the end? Because mine does not. I've looked through the settings again, to no avail.

This is the last I heard of this feature: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147599