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Allow for downloading metadata then stopping #7540
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@Scripter17 Thank you for the feature request. It is already possible to select the files to download when starting a download on Tribler. |
I should've clarified: That's only possible when someone who has the metadata is online and the torrent/magnet link contains the metadata BTDigg, unfortunately, only has magnet links without that metadata |
Cross-post: #8286 (comment) - should be considered when fixing this issue. |
[Oops, misposted here first] According to the (
Of course, we might not know what files are in the torrent yet - so we'd have to start these torrents with the That said, to determine if we have to set the file priorities to
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Actually, regarding the other issue: I think there is an even easier way to do this. Instead of storing the entire ATP, we can make use of an existing alert:
We still need to attach a new flag to the EDIT: Perhaps persisting this in the |
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I frequently use a DHT crawler called BTDigg to find torrents. Often the torrents can be 100+GB when all I want is a single 200MB video. Often the torrents are also old with few (if any) seeders that are only online once in a while. A few days ago I left an 18GB torrent downloading just so I can get the metadata then choose which files to download. Instead I woke up to it being 70% downloaded
Describe the solution you'd like
In addition to the start/stop button for torrents, add a button to wait for metadata then stop the torrent
Describe alternatives you've considered
Keeping Tribler open on my second monitor, keeping an eye on it, and pausing the torrents when I go to bed. This is obviously more of a pain than it needs to be and doesn't work well if the only seeder is on the other side of the world (time zones)
Alternatively Tribler could keep trying to find the metadata for stopped torrents, but that seems unintuitive and people generally want the stop button to mean stop
Additional context
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