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poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

selecting individual files in a "multiplexed torrent" [SOLVED]

how is it possible to select one or several files (ex: "nice book on postgresql.pdf") out of the many files included in a large (not single archive) torrent (ex: "obscene_number_of_web_ebooks.torrent") when using the rtorrent client?  perhaps it would do to just make a simple script employing regex to modify the download targets listed therein?  on top of the time spent waiting for huge downloads to complete, i want to avoid wasting personal and shared network resources to download a large number of files that i am going to delete immediately.  TIA

Last edited by poopship21 (2009-08-02 20:27:19)

Hrod beraht

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Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 186

Re: selecting individual files in a "multiplexed torrent" [SOLVED]

Go to the file list and use the space-bar to change the individual file priority. Use * to change the priority of all files. Use / to collapse/expand the directories.

In your case, use * to change all file priorities to 'off' and then use the space-bar to turn back on the one file you do want.

Bob

Last edited by Hrod beraht (2009-05-23 21:05:48)

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

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Re: selecting individual files in a "multiplexed torrent" [SOLVED]

Also look at http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/RTorrentUserGuide (* and / are useful for large torrents)

And rtorrent will make 0 byte files even if you didn't select them.

poopship21

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Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 177

Re: selecting individual files in a "multiplexed torrent" [SOLVED]

problem solved.  thanks again