Is there a way to bulk insert multiple .torrents?

[pyc]

It's one very important function, but it seems that it doesn't exist...

[lvm]

If you set up auto add folder in preferences-download deluge will watch this directory and will automatically start all torrents you'll copy there. Is this what are you looking for?

[pyc]

Yep, that's it, thanks... While I'm here... What does "compact allocation" mean?

[r0ckarong]

Yep, that's it, thanks... While I'm here... What does "compact allocation" mean?

Read the FAQ or some other torrent introduction. Compact allocation means that the client only stores the amount of data actually downloaded on your drive and the file grows as you keep downloading. Full allocation places a dummy file in the full size of the download in your folder thus reserving space to be filled with actual data through the client. I usually do full alloc since that erradicates download problems when you run out of space. With full allocation if you can fit it on the drive it will probably finish. Compact alloc saves space but leaves you with a risk of space conflicts (not with lasers and ships but with bits and too fat bytes).

And btw. you can just go to whatever place you normally add your torrents and open them with deluge, if you open three torrents the "add" dialog should show you three different files/folders and their settings. Unfortunately I was having problems with that since 1.0.1 but I also haven't tried it in a while. Maybe it's already fixed in 1.0.7

[lvm]

Nothing much, unfortunately. In theory, when download starts in full allocation mode deluge should allocate a complete file thus avoiding excessive disk fragmentation and running out of free space in mid-download, while in compact allocation mode it should allocate only as much space as needed for downloaded bits. In practice, in full allocation mode deluge uses sparse files, so it is exactly the same as compact allocation only done by filesystem, not by deluge. This is a whopping bug, but judging by the FAQ http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq# ... allocation some of the developers do not realize that. Actually it is quite embarrassing.