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TUI and CLI for the BitTorrent client Transmission
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How to reset torrent settings so that it uses global settings? #219

Closed tgharib closed 2 years ago

tgharib commented 2 years ago

This feels like a dumb question but I seem to be overlooking something obvious.

I have 20 torrents or so and it seems that some of them have settings customized for their particular torrent. For example: my global upload limit is 1 MB/s but some torrents seem to have an upload limit of 5 MB/s while others have unlimited upload limit. How would I be able to reset a torrent so that it uses the global setting of 1 MB/s?

rndusr commented 2 years ago

Everything should be documented. Get started by running "stig help".

The command you're looking for is "ratelimit".

tgharib commented 2 years ago

Sorry, I suppose I wasn't clear.

My intention is not change the rate limit. The rate limit was just an example. Basically, I am asking: how would I be able to reset all per-torrent setttings for all torrents?

rndusr commented 2 years ago

OK, thanks for clarifying.

This is not possible and I'm not sure it would be a good idea because it's unclear what a per-torrent setting is.

For example, the torrent's location is a per-torrent setting, but do I want to move them all to the default download directory when I reset all per-torrent settings? Possibly, but the user can't predict what it does and stig can't know what the user means exactly.

tgharib commented 2 years ago

For example, the torrent's location is a per-torrent setting, but do I want to move them all to the default download directory when I reset all per-torrent settings? Possibly, but the user can't predict what it does and stig can't know what the user means exactly.

Makes sense. I had to resort to transmission-qt to see which settings are set per-torrent. I couldn't find a way to set seed ratio limit in stig either.

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rndusr commented 2 years ago

I couldn't find a way to set seed ratio limit in stig either.

It's not implemented, and I don't know why that setting even exists.

Why would you stop seeding after a certain ratio? If you need the disk space, you delete the torrent. If you need the bandwidth, you can limit it globally or per torrent.

tgharib commented 2 years ago

I couldn't find a way to set seed ratio limit in stig either. It's not implemented, and I don't know why that setting even exists. Why would you stop seeding after a certain ratio? If you need the disk space, you delete the torrent. If you need the bandwidth, you can limit it globally or per torrent.

On public trackers, seeding is like a firehose that is always running but can never extinguish the fire. I would rather stop seeding on torrents with high ratios so that torrents with low ratios can get upload bandwidth.

rndusr commented 2 years ago

I see.

I have a cronjob that runs this every day:

stig ratelimit up   1Mb '!limit-rate-up & ratio>=3 & ratio<5'
stig ratelimit up 512kb '!limit-rate-up & ratio>=5'

This doesn't kill torrents and people can still download them, it just takes forever.