How to move part of torrent in rtorrent?
Searching for "move" and "rtorrent" only leads to questions about completed torrents. I'm interested in moving a single file that is part of a larger torrent to a different directory.
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Searching for "move" and "rtorrent" only leads to questions about completed torrents. I'm interested in moving a single file that is part of a larger torrent to a different directory.
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Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?
– guntbert
8 hours ago
You can make a hardlink to it if the directory is on the same filesystem (ln your/file other/dir). But the file will be garbage before it is fully downloaded (torrent segments are not downloaded sequentially, and even a file that's 99% may be completely unusable, but you probably already know that)
– pizdelect
54 mins ago
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Searching for "move" and "rtorrent" only leads to questions about completed torrents. I'm interested in moving a single file that is part of a larger torrent to a different directory.
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Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?
– guntbert
8 hours ago
You can make a hardlink to it if the directory is on the same filesystem (ln your/file other/dir). But the file will be garbage before it is fully downloaded (torrent segments are not downloaded sequentially, and even a file that's 99% may be completely unusable, but you probably already know that)
– pizdelect
54 mins ago
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Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?
– guntbert
8 hours ago
You can make a hardlink to it if the directory is on the same filesystem (ln your/file other/dir). But the file will be garbage before it is fully downloaded (torrent segments are not downloaded sequentially, and even a file that's 99% may be completely unusable, but you probably already know that)
– pizdelect
54 mins ago
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1
Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?
– guntbert
8 hours ago
Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?
– guntbert
8 hours ago
You can make a hardlink to it if the directory is on the same filesystem (
ln your/file other/dir). But the file will be garbage before it is fully downloaded (torrent segments are not downloaded sequentially, and even a file that's 99% may be completely unusable, but you probably already know that)– pizdelect
54 mins ago
You can make a hardlink to it if the directory is on the same filesystem (
ln your/file other/dir). But the file will be garbage before it is fully downloaded (torrent segments are not downloaded sequentially, and even a file that's 99% may be completely unusable, but you probably already know that)– pizdelect
54 mins ago
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You cannot move part of a torrent to a different directory without breaking the Download/Seeding process, but you can copy an individual file of an existing torrent to a different directory while the torrent is continuing to Download/Seed.
Having said that, you could try:
- stopping the torrent
- move the file to another directory
- creating a symlink in the torrent's file directory to the new location
- resume the torrent
Note: Try as it should theoretically work, but I'm not currently torrenting anything right now so cannot test...
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You cannot move part of a torrent to a different directory without breaking the Download/Seeding process, but you can copy an individual file of an existing torrent to a different directory while the torrent is continuing to Download/Seed.
Having said that, you could try:
- stopping the torrent
- move the file to another directory
- creating a symlink in the torrent's file directory to the new location
- resume the torrent
Note: Try as it should theoretically work, but I'm not currently torrenting anything right now so cannot test...
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You cannot move part of a torrent to a different directory without breaking the Download/Seeding process, but you can copy an individual file of an existing torrent to a different directory while the torrent is continuing to Download/Seed.
Having said that, you could try:
- stopping the torrent
- move the file to another directory
- creating a symlink in the torrent's file directory to the new location
- resume the torrent
Note: Try as it should theoretically work, but I'm not currently torrenting anything right now so cannot test...
answered 5 hours ago
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You cannot move part of a torrent to a different directory without breaking the Download/Seeding process, but you can copy an individual file of an existing torrent to a different directory while the torrent is continuing to Download/Seed.
Having said that, you could try:
- stopping the torrent
- move the file to another directory
- creating a symlink in the torrent's file directory to the new location
- resume the torrent
Note: Try as it should theoretically work, but I'm not currently torrenting anything right now so cannot test...
answered 5 hours ago
Fabby
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You cannot move part of a torrent to a different directory without breaking the Download/Seeding process, but you can copy an individual file of an existing torrent to a different directory while the torrent is continuing to Download/Seed.
Having said that, you could try:
- stopping the torrent
- move the file to another directory
- creating a symlink in the torrent's file directory to the new location
- resume the torrent
Note: Try as it should theoretically work, but I'm not currently torrenting anything right now so cannot test...
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Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish?
– guntbert
8 hours ago
You can make a hardlink to it if the directory is on the same filesystem (
ln your/file other/dir). But the file will be garbage before it is fully downloaded (torrent segments are not downloaded sequentially, and even a file that's 99% may be completely unusable, but you probably already know that)– pizdelect
54 mins ago