I did have the perfect installation of Ktorrent
My ISP provides a peak and off-peak data limit (off-peak is cheaper for them) I had my bandwidth scheduler plug-in set to stop all torrents outside the off-peak hours and to run them flat out overnight
before retiring I would open the torrents I wanted, Ktorrent would load them and they were marked as "queued", I'd go to beddy-byes and next time I looked at the monitor they would still be queued but the download was completed and I'd have seeded for some period of the night

Foolishly I ran 'yum update' and didn't pay a lot of attention so now I am running Ktorrent 3.3.3

I still have the bandwidth scheduler plug-in, it still has the same schedule but the first night I loaded a torrent it appeared in the GUI marked 'not started' I thought that this was some new way of displaying the fact that it would start when the schedule kicked-in

Sadly this wasn't the case, the next morning it was still 'not started' and nothing had happened

what has happened between the two versions I have been using ?

Is it something I have done/not done that has disabled scheduling, is it the Fedora package managers screwing with Ktorrent or is it no longer an option with this torrent client, in which case there are less resource hungry clients I could run if I can only 'start' the client manually

this isn't going to get an answer is it ?

Is the queue manager enabled ?

saywot wrote:this isn't going to get an answer is it ?

Patience is not your strongest virtue is it ?

George wrote:Is the queue manager enabled ?

you betchya

(I have no virtues, but only vices)

George wrote:Is the queue manager enabled ?

I thought the queue manager was to order the download of loaded torrents
and the bandwidth scheduler was to allocate bandwidth according to the settings allocated in the schedule
I have the queue manager set (the box allowing a manual user setting) unchecked
the bandwidth schedule has the client allocating NO bandwidth until my 'off-peak' time

I have no context menu to queue a torrent, I can pause the client which will stay in that paused state until I manually click on the resume button

No matter what the time of day and regardless of the schedule if I start the client the downloads start

this isn't what used to happen nor is it very desirable

let's just say
the schedule is set to 6AM - midnight all torrents paused
midnight to 5.59AM no limit

if I load a torrent at 11.55PM and Ktorrent is paused, it remains paused at 00:05AM
if I load a torrent at 11:55PM, un-pause the programme and 'stop' the torrent it remains stopped

as far as I can tell the bandwidth scheduler doesn't do anything

Just tried something similar here, added a torrent while all torrents where paused, then waited until the bandwidth scheduler unpaused the QM, and the torrent got started. So it seems to work here.

I have no context menu to queue a torrent, I can pause the client which will stay in that paused state until I manually click on the resume button

If the QM is enabled, then starting a torrent will enqueue it, the QM will then decide whether it will start the torrent (using the order in the QM tab)

OK

So I go to

Settings - Configure Ktorrent - Queue Manager - and check Control Torrents manually ?

or uncheck it ??

I don't see an option to enable/disable the Queue Manager apart from that one box

right, nothing I've tried has worked

where do I enable the queue manager ?

there's only the one box to check (or un-check) in Settings->Configure KTorrent

and neither option starts the client when the bandwidth scheduler releases bandwidth from nothing to flat-out

Control torrents manually needs to be unchecked, then the QM will be on.

I tried that

when there are multiple torrents loaded they are either 'running' or 'not started' or 'not queued'

I have no way of queueing them

the programme doesn't do it, I can't,

is there something that I haven't done because it used to run perfectly until the version upgraded

saywot wrote:I tried that

when there are multiple torrents loaded they are either 'running' or 'not started' or 'not queued'

I have no way of queueing them

the programme doesn't do it, I can't,

is there something that I haven't done because it used to run perfectly until the version upgraded

Start the torrents, then they will be enqueued.

I'm on Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 and I have the same prob. How do I manually queue/unqueue items?

when do you re-connect the network cable ?