So, I have had a problem for quite some time that torrent information gets corrupted causing ktorrent to crash. Usually that has happened when I reboot with ktorrent running, or when I have killed it because it would not quit when I quit it (it keeps the process going even though the gui bit has gone away), but a couple times it even happened when I had quit normally.
I don't know how to tell what torrent is causing the crash. The prescription is always to
rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor*
which deletes whatever data ktorrent is storing under the tor[0-9]* directories, which is apparently what is corrupted. Actually I think I might have had to nuke the whole thing before, I forget.
Once you do that, ktorrent forgets where it was on all the torrents you downloaded. The only method I know for getting back where you left off is to manually readd the torrent files, which at least would work for the torrent files that had been started, although order is then screwed up, magnetted torrents are not included, and I've had to go and guess what torrent file belongs to what torrent.
I would kind of like to be able to tell what tor directory goes to what torrent. That information is somewhere, as is the info I need on which torrent file goes to what torrent, what order it was, and how far the download went, but I do not know how to find it. The last bit is kind of important too because sometimes what is in incomplete never actually got any data, it is just an empty file.
Does anyone know how to find the answer to these questions? If I at least could figure out what torrent was broken I could fix just that one and move on. I think it is kind of stupid that ktorrent even crashes in the first place when this happens, but it does and has for years, and the prescription is always to nuke and start over, which, as I said, is kind of sad. Which is why I filed this bug report, even though I know and even almost understand why it will never result in anything: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317009
I was just tired of it happening. On a new install I have, I have a number of separate cases of t his. Each time I have kept a copy of the directories befire I nuked them, but without this info I can't do much with that. Thanks in advance for your help.