rTorrent complications

burk · 2007-09-22 21:00:07

Hi

I'm trying to use my arch installation more and more (I have dual boot), and I decided to move my torrent activity from uTorrent on windows to rTorrent on arch. But i have one problem. When i downloaded torrents in uTorrent, they often came in the form of a folder, lets say gobble/file[1-5].zip. If i didnt like the name of the folder i could rename it and uTorrent would still let me seed the contents (i just had to click: "set download location..."), but with rTorrent i havent managed to find a way to do just that. rTorrent always makes a new folder with the name that it is supposed to have, according to the torrent.

Is there any way to fix this?

codemac · 2007-09-24 16:34:01

^O
    Change the destination directory of the download. The torrent must be closed.

That is from `man rtorrent`

Happy torrenting.

burk · 2007-09-24 19:27:34

codemac wrote:

^O
    Change the destination directory of the download. The torrent must be closed.
That is from `man rtorrent`
Happy torrenting.

Yes i know this, let me explain with an example:

Torrent bob.torrent contains a folder bob with two files bob/1.txt and bob/2.txt. I download this great torrent with uTorrent on windows, but i find out that keke is a more fitting name for the folder, so i rename it. In uTorrent i get an error, but i fix it by setting the download location to keke/. Then I boot linux, and start rTorrent. I load the torrent and click ^O, and I write the folder to save it in keke/, but the problem is that rTorrent thinks: "oh, no bob-folder here, i have to make a new one and download all the files again", so then it downloads them all to keke/bob/...

Hope this made my problem clearer...

tomk · 2007-09-24 20:17:06

It's certainly clear, but it's also not a feature that rtorrent has AFAIK. Submit it as a feature request to the developer.

codemac · 2007-09-24 20:35:58

AAAahhhh, ok. So ^o does the root download folder, not renaming the folder the torrent is going into.

Definitely submit a feature request. The development cycle on rtorrent is pretty quick.

burk · 2007-09-24 20:43:47

Ok, thanks.

Made a feature request here: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/1052#preview

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#1 2007-09-22 21:00:07

rTorrent complications

#2 2007-09-24 16:34:01

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