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the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:54 am
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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Re: the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:12 pm
by ciaobaby
The filename is the info_hash ID  of the loaded job, and can be found on the General Tab labelled "Torrent hash"

Re: the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:15 pm
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?

Re: the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:29 pm
by ciaobaby
where is this Torrent Hash I can't find it.
Read the bit in my post that follows "and can be found ..."

Re: the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:33 pm
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

Re: the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:18 pm
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

Re: the names of torrents

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:59 pm
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.