Download folder management

[b0nk]

If a user decides to check "Save all viewed content to your downloads directory" there is no way to check how large the folder is within the program.

An option (or several) to manage the downloads folder would be useful in the Settings section.

Suggestions:

• Show how big the download folder is.
• Let the user decide a maximum limit (could be in MB / GB).
• Let the user clear the downloads folder within the program.
• Let the user set an auto-delete condition (delete older videos when you reach X size / keep videos from last Y days / keep last Z downloaded videos).

[tzarebczan]

Thanks for filing this issue! It will require some work on the SDK under https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk/issues/1311

[d1vi]

I would like to add to this topic the following feature:

Lbry desktop currently saves all files under root Download directory path with files original names, as channel owner uploaded them. I think it's sensible to save all files under a folder struture using channel name as folder name and files of downloaded videos inside each folder respectively.

Like

{Download directory}\channel_name{file_name}

instead of

{Download directory}{file_name}

[belikor]

This issue is partially taken care of by my library, lbrytools.

It also applies to https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk/issues/1311

It basically inspects the top level directory of the subdirectories that hold the media files and blobfiles. If it crosses a limit in gigabytes, it will start cleaning up older files. It can delete media files (mp4, mkv, etc.), blobs, or both.

lbrytools.cleanup_space(main_dir="/home/user", size=1000, percent=90, what="media")

I think it's sensible to save all files under a folder struture using channel name

This is the default behavior in my tools.

d = lbrytools.download_single("some-video", own_dir=True, ddir="/home/user/Downloads")