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Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
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[Feature Request] Move complete downloads to new folder #2901

Open startailcoon opened 7 years ago

startailcoon commented 7 years ago

This is a feature request.

When a download is complete, move it to a new folder to separate it from incomplete downloads. Many modern clients has this feature.

Dmole commented 6 years ago

While implementing this, one might consider groups (like rtorrent) where multiple watch/downloading/complete folders can be specified... If Tribler were optimised a bit it might gain usage as a seeding tool (not just a hit and run tool) where it is advantageous to group torrents by tracker/type/genre/etc.

A "move Storage" option per torrent in the UI is another related feature.

Thatoo commented 5 years ago

A "move Storage" option per torrent in the UI is another related feature.

Is the real needed feature. Being able to move a downloaded file we want to keep to a desired location and keeping seeding it is really important. Files are first all downloaded in the download folder to check them. Once checked and validated as valuable file, it should be possible to move it to a new folder (each file in different folders depending on how one classify his/her computer) and yet keep seeding it.

Dmole commented 5 years ago

...needed...classify...

In case you are interested a workaround is to use hard links, which has the added advantages or renaming files, splitting folders, etc.

Thatoo commented 5 years ago

Thank you for this fast reply. However, I'm not sure to understand... I just think it should be good to be able to right click on a torrent in Trible, and click on something like "move to...", chose a location and it moves the folder and files of this specific torrent to a the chosen location. I hope I'm clear...

xoriole commented 5 years ago

Support for moving torrent is recently added and will be available from 7.3 beta 3. 2019-05-17-112431_3840x1291_scrot

qstokkink commented 5 years ago

@xoriole can we close this issue now then?

Dmole commented 5 years ago

The request was for a torrent to be automatically moved on completion, so unless that is also implemented I think that this issue should technically stay open.

xoriole commented 5 years ago

Not yet, we still don't have move on complete. The previous PR only offers an option to move the torrent storage but its a user action and does not do automatically on complete. While this is relatively easy to do but we need to introduce something like a move directory in settings. We should discuss about it.

mrjonlovem commented 5 years ago

First off I'm leaving Deluge to use Tribler exclusively. My only gripe so far is the downloads situation, as all of the incomplete and complete files live in the same location. With other clients you have your incomplete/downloading files in one folder then once completed the files move to a Downloads folder. I get the seeding part but its nerve racking trying to discern which filenames are completed amongst the ones that are not. bitmoji

nerdCopter commented 5 months ago

backlog milestone :smile: :calendar:

Dmole commented 5 months ago

Because Tribler has an API, and there is a "move file storage" feature it is likely currently possible to have a script move all completed to their own folder... But there is no usable documentation for the API, and I don't see it in swagger.json so someone would have to dig through the source.