the names of torrents

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Matrix Leader

the names of torrents

Post by Matrix Leader »

One thing I like about uTorrent more, is that once you are downloading a torrent, if you go to the users\appdata\roaming\utorrent folder,

you can see the actual names of the torrent in there, that helps me when I want to upload a torrent to btRennaounce in order to get more trackers

but with qBittorrent, the names are all random names so it is impossible to know which torrent file is for what actual file:

can this be fixed?

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ciaobaby

Re: the names of torrents

Post by ciaobaby »

The filename is the info_hash ID  of the loaded job, and can be found on the General Tab labelled "Torrent hash"
Matrix Leader

Re: the names of torrents

Post by Matrix Leader »

I don't get it, where is this Torrent Hash I can't find it.

Also, what I want to know is which each of these randomly named torrent files lead to which actual torrent?
ciaobaby

Re: the names of torrents

Post by ciaobaby »

where is this Torrent Hash I can't find it.
Read the bit in my post that follows "and can be found ..."
Matrix Leader

Re: the names of torrents

Post by Matrix Leader »

ah I see now

I hope this changes and qBittorrent just sticks to a simpler naming as per the actual torrent file name like the way it is in uTorrent
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Re: the names of torrents

Post by sledgehammer_999 »

[quote="Matrix Leader"]
ah I see now

I hope this changes and qBittorrent just sticks to a simpler naming as per the actual torrent file name like the way it is in uTorrent
[/quote]

This will never happen because qbittorrent uses the info hash to track the files and to guarantee filename uniqueness.

However this will help when it's merged: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/1296
ciaobaby

Re: the names of torrents

Post by ciaobaby »

[quote="Matrix Leader"]
... actual torrent file name like the way it is in uTorrent [/quote]

The uTorrent renaming of metadata files can and does actually cause problems for reloading jobs if or when the payload root directory has been altered in the GUI window, and there have been a few occasions I have had to edit the info directory to make it work again.
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