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My experience is that sparse regions are not preserved on any platforms. In addition to this, the files being sparse creates an issue when the user wants to move the...
I also wanted to mention that some thought needs to be added to the common situation where files already exist on disk and they have been inflated beyond the sparse...
A typical example is a torrent that contains the complete output of a performer. Let's say all albums of a musician, or say all episodes of a TV series. You...
> > Files should be created as parts. > > How would that work? What do you do with the parts once you're done? Sorry, I don't know why I...
What I meant there was that downloads should be created as files, not as parts. So if all your selected files are already downloaded, the % completion indicated should be...
Right, but there doesn't seem to be a way not to download full chunks, i.e. not download files you didn't elect to download?
True, but once the piece has been validated, the unneeded bytes can be tossed away. As I understand extensions to the BitTorrent protocol are possible, so it might well be...
It happens in every torrent where files are large. The preceding file that has an overlapping piece will have data written to it at, say, offset 10GB into the file,...
hmm... what's missing? qbittorrent uses libtorrent 1.2.14.0, and sparse files are used.
possibly, yeah.