I am a new user. I am planning to install Deluge 1.2.1. I have apprehension because of my experience with Utorrent last month. Prior to utorrent, I used bittornado. It is stable but it is a resource hog. Also, it is limited in connecting with other types of connections like DHT. I looked around for an alternative to bittorrent client and chose utorrent.
My PC does not have much harddrive space. I think it had maybe 5 gigs free when I downloaded utorrent. I have two external harddrives attached to my pc. Everything was going well for about a week when I started to receive messages from windows that I had little harddrive space left. I always downloaded my files to my external drives when I used bittornado and I instructed utorrent to do the same but somehow my harddrive got filled up. I looked through my C drive to see if files had been downloaded there but I found nothing. After awhile, I got so frustrated that I began to remove programs to free up some harddrive space but that only got me 200 megabytes of free space. Ultimately, i reformatted my harddrive.
I was tempted to go back to bittornado but I decided to look around and found Deluge. I read through the FAQ and some of the postings on the forum. I have two concerns: (1) Does Deluge allow users to choose where to download everytime I click on a torrent? My torrents are on my C drive or desktop. With bittornado, everytime I click on the torrent, it would ask me where I want to download the file. (2) Does Deluge use compact or full allocation of file? Reading through the Deluge's FAQ, I understand that it uses sparse file. I did not quite understand everything but it seemed like sparse file was similar to compact allocation of file. With bittornado, there was no full allocation of file. That is why I could start a download of a 70 gig file on one of my external harddrive even though it only had 55 gigs free.
Newbie with question on sparse file and download location
Re: Newbie with question on sparse file and download location
Deluge supports both compact and full allocation and uses sparse files for full allocation.
If you want to be able to selectively download files out of a torrent, you need full allocation.
If you read: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq# ... wnload.Why
You'll see that Deluge handles this problem by creating those other files.
If I recall correctly, in utorrent the extra parts are put together in a special file which by default lives on the C drive.
This file only gets deleted when you remove the torrent from utorrent.
Not sure if it's possible to use up 5 gigs that way, but it could be a leading factor.
I would recommend using: http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onder ... quoiaview/
to work out what's using up your space, if it is utorrent, then you can ask about it in their forums: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewforum.php?id=3
Of course you are also welcome to try out Deluge.
If you want to be able to selectively download files out of a torrent, you need full allocation.
If you read: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq# ... wnload.Why
You'll see that Deluge handles this problem by creating those other files.
If I recall correctly, in utorrent the extra parts are put together in a special file which by default lives on the C drive.
This file only gets deleted when you remove the torrent from utorrent.
Not sure if it's possible to use up 5 gigs that way, but it could be a leading factor.
I would recommend using: http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onder ... quoiaview/
to work out what's using up your space, if it is utorrent, then you can ask about it in their forums: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewforum.php?id=3
Of course you are also welcome to try out Deluge.