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Transmission

Transmission

Tweakable BitTorrent client.

Version:  1.76

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can't seed properly and unable to verify existing since 0.5 at least.

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Mikis--2008 Tuesday, December 25 2007 @ 01:48 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

For any reason when a seed have been stopped once, Transmission starts to download ALL of the torrent once again, even as the whole downloaded material is playable like any 100% d/l'ed files.

This also means that older fully downloaded torrents can't be reseeded, as the download starts from the beginning. Ergo, Transmission can seldom check existing files properly.
If it happens that a half downloaded torrent has to be removed and added again later, this bug also kicks in. I have one such d/l that have taken me 2 months to download only to 60%. I had to take it offline and start it again. It went back to 0% even as it was the same directory int use that "Bits on Wheels" correctly count to 60% downloaded. This is really really bad and is becoming a showstopper for me.

How is it possible that truly serious bugs like these that seem to affect many are left in for years and years? If it was a Java app I would try and fix this problem, but this is unfortunately not possible for me.   
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I should have used the menu command recheck existing data - Mikis--2008

When I used the menucommand "Transfers - > recheck existing data" it read the downloaded files properly and didn't start anew. My bad. Still wish it would ask for it though.

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Tuesday, December 25 2007 @ 05:21 PM PST