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Running deluged 1.3.0 on Ubuntu.

To reproduce the problem:
1. Download torrent
2. Let it download files to say /home/user
3. Move files from /home/user/myfile.avi to /opt/myfile.avi
4. Deluged will report error to client (good!)
5. Problem: if deluged at this point is restarted, the torrent file (myfile.avi) will re-download.

There is no option in GtkUI preferences (nor core.conf I can see) to change this behavior.
This can be a problem on some private trackers, re-downloading data you had already announced as downloaded to the tracker will ban you (via passkey, not client to client ban).

Anyone else found any workaround for this?

forkandspoon wrote:Anyone else found any workaround for this?

Move the files from within deluge (using move storage).

Can Move Storage be done from a commandline?

I know it can be done from python but I haven't worked out how it works just yet.

I'm a member on quite a few private trackers and none of them ban a user for downloading the same torrent multiple times, so I don't see this as a particularly big problem.

TL does just to name one.

Plus I'm thinking even more than it wastes bandwidth, and you end up with two copies of it - the moved copy and a newly downloaded one.
Also one might think they moved it but wonders why it's still there, moving it again and again and it just keeps re-downloading and confusing them.

That's weird, I've been on TL for many years and it's never happened to me.

That's just an example.

But look under their Rules section I'm sure you'll find it. Falls under Account Sharing or something.

I hate it when this happends, since I often forgets to remove the torrent from Deluge after I have removed the source via my HTPC.

I have to agree it is annoying and just happened to me 5min ago...

I think the functionality should change.

My initial idea would be to error out if the file was created and is now missing, however using deluge with remote shares or removable storage in a temporary missing state it could be annoying if upon re-establishing the torrents error out.

Cas wrote:My initial idea would be to error out if the file was created and is now missing, however using deluge with remote shares or removable storage in a temporary missing state it could be annoying if upon re-establishing the torrents error out.

The way utorrent solves this is if the storage has moved, it errors out and pauses the torrent. You have to manually start it again, where it will then recheck the storage, if it's missing still it errors out and pauses again.
This I think is the best solution.