Qtorrent select files to download

How often do you use uTorrent? What type of files do you usually download? Let us know in the comments section below. Your email address will not be published. How to Change Download Location in uTorrent. April 12, at pm. Chomi says:. June 9, at am.

What is the expected behavior: After the metadata has been retrieved, we have an option to select the desired files for download from the Torrent information section. Steps to reproduce: Open any torrent file which has multiple files within for downloading. Duplicate of Version 4. Sign up for free to subscribe to this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in. Linked pull requests.

Being able to blacklist certain file names would also be a great addition to this feature. Line in 2d7b Definitely have my vote. It will also save not much but some space and unnecessary Data download for Countries that charge per Mb on top of per Speed.

Please add this feature since lot's of trackers now put lots of "junk files". Yes we can use other clients but qb has a lot to offer and you can always disable this feature if it bothers you, so it's a win-win. Is it possible now to completely fail specific torrent if it contains not appropriate file name?

I would love to have this feature implemented. There could be a global file extension filter, or have the filter setup by category so categories can have different filters. Alternatively, just use better sites and download better torrents. That's definitely my motivation for wanting this feature. I use the RSS downloader and it would be nice to automatically exclude unnecessary files. As shown above, this isn't enough for. Windows hides the. If you usually use smaller thumbnails, the minuscule difference in the icon is barely visible.

Also, it is arguably because torrent clients aren't smart that these types of malicious torrents are still going around, and that's why I think qBittorrent should provide this feature. IMHO certain extensions should also be skipped by default, for the same reason. It would be a great security and usability improvement.

This also allows you to skip certain extensions because you prefer so, but the security issue should be considered prominently. If you are downloading torrents with malicious. After all, it is the user's responsibility to not fall for phishing emails as well.

Alternatively, you could try to enable showing. Your solution is for power users, has usability drawbacks, and doesn't address the fact that malicious users are taking advantage of an easily fixable flaw in qBittorrent.

I think the qBittorrent team should step up and fix this. There is almost never a good reason to download certain file extensions, and users should actively check those files for download. You can't expect people that execute random files to know how to use power features. That something can and should be done another way isn't a reason to not include a security feature.

These are the same people that download from the first torrent site that shows up in Google search. So the "use a better site" isn't a valid argument either. Obviously all this is only true if your target is the mass and not just tech-savvy people. How do I download only specific files? I started downloading a torrent. It went quickly for a while then nearly-stalled at Post by RandomTroll » Wed Oct 28, pm I ran transmission-gtk, which allowed me to edit the torrent file. When I run transmission-cli it respects those edits.

Post by begin29 » Wed May 09, am transmission-cli in most useful if you install transition on remote machine home server etc. If you use uTorrent to download torrents though, you can selectively pick out which file it is you want to download from a large torrent file.

This will enable a pane to appear at the bottom of the list of active, queued, or seeding torrents. Next, find the torrent file you want to download and start the download.