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'Enable selection files for torrents before loading' is on, an yet when I open a new torrent and select only some files, all files are created in the torrent directory - and this time full allocation works just fine. I expect files I marked as 'don't download' not to be created at all. Torrents are started via autoload directory. linux

johnnyg wrote:http://deluge-torrent.org/faq.php#6n41

This isn't what is happening, entire files are being downloaded even though I have selected "Don't Download". I'm getting the same problem in 0.5.9.0

Edit: I've tried deleting ~/.config/deluge and adding a torrent again, but no luck, even if I choose "Don't Download" for all files in a torrent, it will download them all.

johnnyg wrote:http://deluge-torrent.org/faq.php#6n41

In my case that's it - just about 0.04% at the very end of the file was downloaded. But I am concerned not about the bandwidth but about 0.7G of disk space wasted for that file. I think that a nice torrent client should handle this differently - store to a temporary file or something.

If it stores to a temporary file it's still going to take up that much space, lol.

I was pretty sure the file created should only be as big as the pieces it needed to download.
so like loki said storing this in a temporary file would occupy the same amount of space.
or did you mean it should remove the extra file(s) after the download is complete?

johnnyg wrote:I was pretty sure the file created should only be as big as the pieces it needed to download.
so like loki said storing this in a temporary file would occupy the same amount of space.

Only when full allocation is off and the piece belonging to two files is at the start of the file I don't want. In my case this piece was at the end of the file so a full-sized file was created. Full allocation is unfortunately broken in 0.5.8.9 but I hope it will be fixed soon.

johnnyg wrote: or did you mean it should remove the extra file(s) after the download is complete?

It will be impossible to seed that piece then. I thought about creating a <torrent-name>.pieces compactly-allocated file to save parts of cross-file pieces and storing it with the .fastresume file.

johnnyg wrote:I was pretty sure the file created should only be as big as the pieces it needed to download.
so like loki said storing this in a temporary file would occupy the same amount of space.
or did you mean it should remove the extra file(s) after the download is complete?

In ver 0587 the files allocated are sparse with/without full allocation, but not spare in 0588/0589. Did you test it ok?