How to tell if a torrent is finished downloading

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I'm think most torrent applications have separate customizable directories for downloading files, completed downloads. Just poke around in preferences. I've never used your torrent app, but I'm pretty sure transmission the default in Ubuntu has this feature. Thanks for the quick reply! I figured qbittorrent had that functionality but I must have skipped over it when searching for it. Still I am curious if there is a way to do this through bash or python for future use in scripts.

By pstein , November 27, in General. What I want to achieve is that in case that this torrent resp. The torrent file names could change for the same download file. So the core information to decide whether a file was already downloaded must be the hash of the download file rather than the torrent file name. Screenshot of the error helps here to see what is happening. The only way for it to detect the same file torrent is if your downloading the same file torrent if something changes in the torrent then it will be a new torrent.

The program just downloads torrents it's up to the user to know what they downloaded or look at the folder or files created to find what was downloaded. If you didn't customize folder for each download or torrent setup then everything will all in one folder with No way to locate or find what files or folders are what. So if you didn't do this then - there is nothing anyone can do to help as this was something the user should've done when first setup to separate torrents. Example folder creation for utorrent if you didn't do this then finding torrents will be next to impossible to filter.

Trash - for completed torrent and torrents when completed to move to so they don't remain in Torrents folder. I am really surprised that auto-detection of duplicate downloads by utorrent should not be possible. The easiest way to implement this would be to keep hash values of all previously downloaded packages.

Hash values are unique. In fact, in some countries, seeding a file is a bigger offense than downloading it. Therefore, those who do seed might face a harsher penalty.

Seeding takes a lot of data; it might take the same amount as the downloading process. If you have limited Internet access, you may not be able to waste your monthly allowance on seeding the content. That especially applies to people living in rural areas or students on a tight budget.

There are both pros and cons to it, depending on the situation and your point of view.