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Are any of these features/options available in Deluge and do they 'actually' work?

1.) Option to 'not' create a subfolder for torrents with multiple files
2.) Do not start the download automatically
3.) Automatically exclude files based on extensions

linuxlad wrote:2.) Do not start the download automatically

Good day to you @linuxlad;

I can answer your second question; there is an option to Add Torrents in Paused state that works for me.

Shadallark

Thanks, do you know if 1 and 3 are options?

To the best of my knowledges
1) no. The .torrent file define the tree structure. You can modify it afterward of course but have to start the D/L first. Is this posswible with another client? Never saw it so just to know
2) yes
3) no. The torrent will be considered uncompleted downloaded if such

1.) Yes, qbittorent has the option under 'Downloads' and below 'When adding a torrent' a box to tick/untick the option to 'create subfolder for torrents with multiples files', I have this unticked so when a torrent that contains more than one file, it will not create a folder with all the files contained within the folder, so in my case, my downloads always includes a minimum of four files(usually four) and therefore are downloaded separately to the provided download-path, no extra subfolder is created.

2.) I just started using QBT with sonarr and apparently sonarr over-rides the setting to 'start/pause' downloads automatically for the client, I assume this will probably be the case for any torrent client I use with sonarr, anyway I have already set it to 'pause' in sonarr; I will just have to experiment as to which settings force priority between the torrent client and sonarr.

3.) Someone made a python script to filter/exclude files by extension for which I was not able to make it work so I used the torrent-client option to 'Run external program on torrent completion' and created an executable to immediately remove/delete a custom set of files from the downloaded torrent by either 'name' or 'extension' type. I would have preferred this process during the addition of the torrent instead of post-completion but it is still better than the manual clean-up process or the accumulation of junk files.

3) executed with https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Plugins/Execute or similar I guess. However it stills: if done prior the download the torrent will not be considered as completed but in forever download. And if files are removed afterwards during the seed the torrent may be considered as to recheck (missing parts). If your usage exclude these you can give a try to the plugin