Automatically ignore files below user-set size

#1 Guest_admiralpumpkin_*

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Posted 23 November 2011 - 04:14 AM

I'd like to be able to set a global preference that ignores files (doesn't download) below a threshold size.

#2 Harold Feit

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Posted 23 November 2011 - 10:40 AM

If this is to prevent downloading of those microscopic (sub-1k files) in an attempt to save bandwidth, it's not going to work. Cross-file pieces force those files to be downloaded anyway.

#3 Guest_admiralp_*

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 01:47 AM

It's to avoid the advertisement/how-to text files that often accompany torrents.

#4 Harold Feit

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Posted 24 November 2011 - 11:02 AM

Then cross-file pieces are going to make it not work.

#5 Guest_ADP_*

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Posted 04 December 2011 - 04:51 PM

Harold Feit, on 24 November 2011 - 11:02 AM, said:

Then cross-file pieces are going to make it not work.

Your knowledge is much deeper than mine, so I can't really respond directly to your comment; except to say that currently I can manually highlight the small files, right-click, and choose "Don't Download". When I do this it appears that the files don't download. I would simply like a preference which says: "Don't download files smaller than ____" to automate this process.

#6 Harold Feit

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Posted 04 December 2011 - 05:50 PM

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When I do this it appears that the files don't download

Except that the data of those files DOES download because you have and are downloading adjacent files.

http://forum.utorren...ic.php?id=60407

#7 Guest_adp_*

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Posted 05 December 2011 - 07:45 PM

Harold Feit, on 04 December 2011 - 05:50 PM, said:

Except that the data of those files DOES download because you have and are downloading adjacent files.

http://forum.utorren...ic.php?id=60407

The link you sent was ambiguous on this subject.

In any case, I'm not specifically trying to save bandwidth, so I don't care if those small files get downloaded in the background as a temp files and are then deleted automatically.

What I am concerned about is that I don't want to have to repeatedly delete small useless files from my incoming folder.

It's the file maintenance that's the issue. I don't care about another 100k of bandwidth use. I care about always having to delete 2-3 files that I don't need.