Why doesn't "Pre-allocate disk space for all files" work as expected?
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:32 am
I have "Pre-allocate disk space for all files" enabled. If I download a torrent that has several files in it but when I add it I only select, say, one file for download and I then later tick more files to be downloaded the added disk space is not allocated.
So for example I could download a 100GB multi-file torrent, tick just one 2GB file to be downloaded when I first add the torrent (which I think is allocated properly) and then later tick the other 98GB of files which aren't allocated any disk space, so when I check the file system it appears I have 98GB free which I really don't because it will gradually get filled with the remaining files being downloaded.
This is a problem for me because I am critically low on storage and I can't do anything about that just now so I regularly get into the situation where Qbittorrent starts giving errors because it's run out of disk space.
So why doesn't "Pre-allocate disk space for all files" appear to do what it says? And anyway why isn't Qbittorrent smart enough to pause everything when it doees run out of disk space?
So for example I could download a 100GB multi-file torrent, tick just one 2GB file to be downloaded when I first add the torrent (which I think is allocated properly) and then later tick the other 98GB of files which aren't allocated any disk space, so when I check the file system it appears I have 98GB free which I really don't because it will gradually get filled with the remaining files being downloaded.
This is a problem for me because I am critically low on storage and I can't do anything about that just now so I regularly get into the situation where Qbittorrent starts giving errors because it's run out of disk space.
So why doesn't "Pre-allocate disk space for all files" appear to do what it says? And anyway why isn't Qbittorrent smart enough to pause everything when it doees run out of disk space?