1) yesterday i ran ktorrent for the first time. i never downloaded anything "illegally" before, but now i have a friend visiting me and we wanted to see a movie, the rent station being too far away... anyway, today i started it again to continue downloading a file. but now the bottom part of the window is missing, the one telling me about "seeders" and "leachers" and giving statistics about up-/downloading. i don't find an option to turn it on again; i tried almost every button - ktorrent 1.2 on kde 3.5.1 level "a" (suse linux 10.1). (see also screenshot)

2) why is the program's language german though my system is norwegian? wasn't there anybody able to translate? i would be able to translate it to norwegian but only with a word list; i'm not a programmer, i don't even understand anything about linux. i use it as most people use windows, hoping that everything works out of the box.

3) may i update my ktorrent-program without losing the data-pieces i already have?

4) i have already read a couple of threads here complaining about the upload-/download-ratio. having literally unlimited bandwidth this doesn't matter to me, but still the ratio seems a little bit "unfair". may it also be like my selected download with e.g. frank zappa is too rare to get a steady result?
http://home.arcor.de/noroli/ktorrent.png

regards
ungua

edit: i run a hp nx6110 notebook which always is perfectly silent. but since ktorrent is running, the fan is working very loudly as if i was playing a modern pc-game. why? and a really newbie-like question: can i just "choose" all of my folders in audio and video and make them available for uploading? will there be any extra files on my hdd? i have almost no space left (<1gb) but if indexing and uploading works completely net-based i can "join" at once.

edit #2: one more thing: "the village.avi" is supposed to be almost 700mb in size, according to ktorrent i have downloaded 208mb, according to konqueror the filesize is alread 616mb. why won't it show either the downloaded size or the size to be downloaded?

ungua wrote:1) yesterday i ran ktorrent for the first time. i never downloaded anything "illegally" before, but now i have a friend visiting me and we wanted to see a movie, the rent station being too far away... anyway, today i started it again to continue downloading a file. but now the bottom part of the window is missing, the one telling me about "seeders" and "leachers" and giving statistics about up-/downloading. i don't find an option to turn it on again; i tried almost every button - ktorrent 1.2 on kde 3.5.1 level "a" (suse linux 10.1). (see also screenshot)

Please download a newer version of KTorrent. 1.2 is really really old and has known bugs. See the front page's download link for SUSE packages.

3) may i update my ktorrent-program without losing the data-pieces i already have?

As far as I know, yes.

4) i have already read a couple of threads here complaining about the upload-/download-ratio. having literally unlimited bandwidth this doesn't matter to me, but still the ratio seems a little bit "unfair". may it also be like my selected download with e.g. frank zappa is too rare to get a steady result?
http://home.arcor.de/noroli/ktorrent.png

A lot of times, it's the torrent's fault and not the client's. I've been in swarms where no matter what client I use, I always end up uploading 3-5x what I download by the time I finish. Though with older versions of KTorrent, this problem seems worse.

edit: i run a hp nx6110 notebook which always is perfectly silent. but since ktorrent is running, the fan is working very loudly as if i was playing a modern pc-game. why?

Torrenting puts a certain amount of stress on the computer, as the client needs to manage thousands of chunks of data coming in from and going out to perhaps a few hundred peers. I'm not surprised that it can cause your fans to spin up.

and a really newbie-like question: can i just "choose" all of my folders in audio and video and make them available for uploading? will there be any extra files on my hdd? i have almost no space left (<1gb) but if indexing and uploading works completely net-based i can "join" at once.

Please see a BitTorrent FAQ (plenty are available on the net) regarding how to create your own torrents, and also finding or creating your own tracker. Sharing doesn't really need any additional disk space, but does require a bit of a framework to be set up.

edit #2: one more thing: "the village.avi" is supposed to be almost 700mb in size, according to ktorrent i have downloaded 208mb, according to konqueror the filesize is alread 616mb. why won't it show either the downloaded size or the size to be downloaded?

This is common behavior with any torrent client. The pieces (chunks) of the torrent are downloaded in arbitrary order. The first piece you download may be the actual first piece of the file, or it could be a slice of the file 300MB into it. As a result, the size of the file is going to be significantly bigger than how much you've downloaded.

thank you for your answers! i will try to download a newer version soon.

regards
ungua

ungua wrote:1) yesterday i ran ktorrent for the first time. i never downloaded anything "illegally" before, but now i have a friend visiting me and we wanted to see a movie, the rent station being too far away... anyway, today i started it again to continue downloading a file. but now the bottom part of the window is missing, the one telling me about "seeders" and "leachers" and giving statistics about up-/downloading. i don't find an option to turn it on again; i tried almost every button - ktorrent 1.2 on kde 3.5.1 level "a" (suse linux 10.1). (see also screenshot)

If this happens you could try running kbuildsycoca from command-line and then start KTorrent to see if it fixed the problem.
BTW, you should upgrade to 2.0.3 as anything before this version is basicly obsolete. You can do this by either using the distro package management and do a upgrade, or uninstall KTorrent and compile the newest version from source.

2) why is the program's language german though my system is norwegian? wasn't there anybody able to translate? i would be able to translate it to norwegian but only with a word list; i'm not a programmer, i don't even understand anything about linux. i use it as most people use windows, hoping that everything works out of the box.

Dunno, i guess that would be either a problem in the i18n database or your distro delivered the wrong file by accident. Probably best to report this nearest to you, which are the guys who do packages for your linux distro version.
Dunno which of these two languages apply for you:
http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable/nn ... /index.php
http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable/nb ... /index.php
The last one(both are for 2.x versions of KTorrent) is fully translated.

Anyway, you could do a fast fix by downloading above (or just the English version) ktorrent.po file and converting it by doing from bash
msgfmt -o ktorrent.mo ktorrent.po
and placing this file inside your local folder /home/ungua/.kde/share/locale/nn(or nb?)/LC_MESSAGES/ktorrent.mo

3) may i update my ktorrent-program without losing the data-pieces i already have?

Not sure, think so, but you could always make a dupe of the folder so you have a backup when it goes south.

4) i have already read a couple of threads here complaining about the upload-/download-ratio. having literally unlimited bandwidth this doesn't matter to me, but still the ratio seems a little bit "unfair". may it also be like my selected download with e.g. frank zappa is too rare to get a steady result?
http://home.arcor.de/noroli/ktorrent.png

It could be the torrent is just not speedy on itself, but you should definately upgrade to 2.0.3 as it's faster and more current.

edit: i run a hp nx6110 notebook which always is perfectly silent. but since ktorrent is running, the fan is working very loudly as if i was playing a modern pc-game. why?

cpu usage i guess, but first upgrade to 2.0.3...

and a really newbie-like question: can i just "choose" all of my folders in audio and video and make them available for uploading? will there be any extra files on my hdd? i have almost no space left (<1gb) but if indexing and uploading works completely net-based i can "join" at once.

Indexing and sharing of folders at once is not part of bittorrent, with bittorrent you have to give someone else a torrent file and then you have to load the file yourself.

edit #2: one more thing: "the village.avi" is supposed to be almost 700mb in size, according to ktorrent i have downloaded 208mb, according to konqueror the filesize is alread 616mb. why won't it show either the downloaded size or the size to be downloaded?

Basicly both statics are correct; konqueror shows the file in full size on the disk and ktorrent shows only the part of the torrent which is completed.

i did the upgrade. downloading speed is exactly the same while uploading goes up to 40kb/s for rather long periods... but the program is in proper norwegian now. maybe we can watch the movie tomorrow night...

regards
ungua

You mean you'll be watching your perfectly legal movie tomorrow, right? *wink* *wink*

well, i hope so.

regards
ungua

I don't know the policies of this forum or where it is hosted, but I don't think posting links to possibly illegally licensed material would be appreciated...

oh, i thought this was kind of the point of the torrent-technology!? do i need to edit the post myself?

regards
ungua

We haven't had any problems concerning illegal torrent links, but just in case I deleted those links.

the movie finally finished downloading today. can someone provide a link to the best faq telling me how to seed with ktorrent? so i save some time searching; you guys probably have the knowledge to give me a proper link within seconds.

regards
ungua

an someone provide a link to the best faq telling me how to seed with ktorrent?

There's no such FAQ. You just don't touch anything after downloading and KTorrent will continue to seed your torrent. Doesn't it?

jep, it does. but i don't have the space to let everything lie there after downloading, so i was thinking about stuff i have on my hdd permanently.

regards
ungua