Allow labels to use special characters to create subfolders

[KillDeer]

One major feature that I have come to need from utorrent is labels that have slashes in them so that when the label is appended to the save location they are filtered down into sub folders automatically.

Here's an example of my labels that will give you an idea of how they work...

Downloads\
Downloads\Temp
Videos\Movies
Videos\Walking Dead
Videos\Person of Interest
Music\
Music\Radio

I can't do this in qbit because for some reason we are not allowed to use special characters in the label names.

For some reason all mention of this suggestion get pointed to this issue on the tracker about having more than one label. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/13

I don't see how the two things are related so closely but its been a year since that issue was submitted and nothing has changed?

[KillDeer]

It's been 2 years since #13 which isnt directly related to and isnt referenced (as much as sledgehammer999 seems to think it has been) in that post.

Can we just add this feature or at least give a real honest reason why it can't be done rather than simply locking the github suggestions?

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/1234

[ciaobaby]

Some characters are not allowed in file or directory/folder names, simple as that.

[sledgehammer_999]

To add to what ciaobaby said:

1. qbt has this feature: tools->options->downloads->hard disk->append the label of the torrent to the save path
2. This means that the label name must be a valid name for files/folders in that filesystem. eg it cannot contain the "?" character.
3. Not allowing the "\" character is because that would create additional folders that qbt isn't designed to handle yet.

[KillDeer]

I know that this feature exsists. If you read the example I gave in the first post I want to be able to nest files down into sub folders.

I know you cannot have a slash in a folder filename.

I do not want a slash in the filename. I want the slash to force qbit to drop down into a subfolder.


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[stoatwblr]

Would that be a backslash (Microsoft) or a forward slash (everything else)?

What about the other odd characters? (MS reserved characters are different to *nix)

It's safer to keep to US-ASCII or UTF-8 unless you can come up with a coherent scheme which works across _all_ platforms.

[ciaobaby]

It's not up to qBT to have a "coherent scheme", that is up to M$ to be in step with everybody else!

[Ninpuukamui]

Hi, I just tried QB, and I was very impressed with it. However, the lack of this feature is going to make me go back to uTorrent 2.2.1 (build 25302), so it would be great if it was implemented. I keep torrents seeded pretty much forever, so a good organization on download is essential for me.

I think that a good solution would be to treat both forward and backward slash as a subfolder symbol, which is what uTorrent does.

[ciaobaby]

which is what uTorrent does.

Incorrectly and only on Windows.

[Ninpuukamui]

which is what uTorrent does.

Incorrectly and only on Windows.

Thank you for your answer. Even if it was "incorrect", for me is still very useful functionality, and I don´t see any benefits not implementing it.

In any case, I see you feel very strongly about this topic, so I´ll just stay with uTorrent.

Cheers!

[ciaobaby]

Not a matter of feeling 'strongly' about it, it cannot and will not happen.

Some characters are just NOT allowed in file or directory names and because label names are used for creating directories, 'special' characters will simply cause a failure when a job is added and/or when pieces start downloading.

So there is a choice, between 'special' characters or crashing, ... ...  which one would you prefer?

[Ninpuukamui]

Thank you again for your answer.

I will answer your question: if those are the only options, I would choose not crashing. However, I believe there are more options, as uTorrent implements a third solution: Use the forward and backwards slashes as indications to create sub-folder, and possibly not allow any other kind of special character.

[sledgehammer_999]

This feature will be obsoleted when multiple tags/labels will be implemented. (Don't ask for eta).