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Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
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The action 'Explore files' should highlight the torrent file or open the torrent folder #4607

Open Thomasedv opened 5 years ago

Thomasedv commented 5 years ago
Tribler version/branch+revision:

Tribler 7.3 beta-5

Expected behavior:

'Explore files' should highlight the actual files you are downloading, or or open the folder if that's the root of the torrent.

This can be done on windows at least, by giving the explorer.exe the path to the file, instead of the folder where the download is. For a torrent where the root is a folder, this would just open the folder for the user.

Actual behavior:

Tribler open download location, but does not select any given torrent. Large download locations forces the user to search the folder manually for the given file/folder.

Reasons for request

Since torrent usually come as a single file, or a folder of files (not sure if a combination is possible, never encountered that scenario), it may sometimes be difficult to know if you are looking for a folder and a file, making finding a file or folder sometimes a inconvenience when you have a large folder of files.

As a bonus, going even further, you can also make it so you can "explore file" by right click in the file list, and then take you to the right clicked file within the torrent folder, however deep the file in a nested folder structure is.

Edit: Actually a duplicate of #1668, didn't notice the issue before since it was closed. This does have a more detailed suggestion however. Neither issue is solved, despite it being closed.

mrjonlovem commented 5 years ago

This would be nice but I'd go further than that with enhancement to separate incomplete torrents and completed torrents. My only gripe so far is the downloads situation, as you force all the incomplete and complete files to live in the same location. With Deluge you can have your incomplete/downloading files in one folder then once completed the files move to the Downloads folder. Can this be done please? Enhance...enhance...