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vl
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Importing Files

Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:44 pm
First I want to thank you for making such a great easy-to-use program
which also offers detailed information.

I also experience problems like mentioned a few topics before -
downloads stalling every 30 seconds, or running extremely slow,
although there are many seeders.
But I think this could be up to my router settings - if this is possible ?

Now to my real problem :

I unintentional deleted a 3.8 gb torrent but not the files ( ~ 45 % finished - cost me about 2 weeks with slow dl rate )

I don't know which torrentfile I should use in the fileimporterplugin,
I couldn't figure out which is the right one...
and
I'm not sure if I can pick a whole folder to be resumed,
cause my big download is one folder with many subdirectories
and many files in there.

I hope you can help me

Thank you
stoeptegel
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Re: Importing Files

Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:04 am
vl wrote:
But I think this could be up to my router settings - if this is possible ?


When firewalled you have less sources, and you can only initiate a connection to a (non-firewalled) peer when your client does an announce.
Of course when a swarm gets bigger and has a good health the differences will decrease.


Now to my real problem :

I unintentional deleted a 3.8 gb torrent but not the files ( ~ 45 % finished - cost me about 2 weeks with slow dl rate )

I don't know which torrentfile I should use in the fileimporterplugin,
I couldn't figure out which is the right one...
and


You can browse the files in
/home/user/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/torX/cache
and look for the right filenames.
Then you can import the torrentfile from the
/home/user/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/torX/
directory where the right files are.


I'm not sure if I can pick a whole folder to be resumed,
cause my big download is one folder with many subdirectories
and many files in there.


Yes you can pick a whole parent folder. If the torrent was saved in
/home/VI
and the files in the torrent are in "letsrock"
then you'll have to point to the directory
/home/vI/letsrock
in the import plugin
vl
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:23 am
Thanx for the immediate reply, I really didn't expect something that fast :)

I allready looked through all this directories and can't find the right one

the .../torX/cache/ dirs all belong to other downloads
and the /torX/ dirs containing just a 'cache'-link I guess belong to downloads that never did start ? ( 0B 0 sources)

Could it be possible that the right torrent dir for my download was deleted or moved by the program when I did this stupid action ?
Is there a way to resume something without a torrent file ?

Please excuse all this questions, but I'm relatively new to this.

Thank You
stoeptegel
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Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:28 am
vl wrote:Thanx for the immediate reply, I really didn't expect something that fast :)


Yeah, today i am fast huh :lol:


I allready looked through all this directories and can't find the right one

the .../torX/cache/ dirs all belong to other downloads
and the /torX/ dirs containing just a 'cache'-link I guess belong to downloads that never did start ? ( 0B 0 sources)


You can check this with
ls -als /home/vI/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/torX/cache
This should give you the location of the files in the torrent, where you can do ls -als on again to view the actual file properties.
(konqueror also views the symlinked location when you hover over the symlinks)

I think too. Probably the torrent never started or you've moved/deleted the files the symlinks are pointing to.


Could it be possible that the right torrent dir for my download was deleted or moved by the program when I did this stupid action ?
Is there a way to resume something without a torrent file ?


If the torrent isn't completed and you hit the remove button in GUI, ktorrent asks you if you want to remove the incompleted files.
AFAIK other than this situation where a download isn't yet completed, KTorrent doesn't let you remove files from GUI.


Please excuse all this questions, but I'm relatively new to this.


Never need to excuse when you're after some information. ;)
(it's what i like todo, at least when it's not too hard...)

PS.Make sure you have the latest version (1.2 for now) running. (or SVN develop version if you feel comforatble with SVN in a whole)


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