The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it’s just that the most popular client for it isn’t very good at managing very large archives.
I’m guessing there’s probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn’t one I’ll make one, but I don’t want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists…
qBittorrent handles selections of individual files quite well. The only downside is a side effect of the protocol: If a data block spans two files (because their size is not an exact multiple) it will create a “partial” file with a strange name next to it - which you need to keep it complete/seeding.
The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it’s just that the most popular client for it isn’t very good at managing very large archives.
I’m guessing there’s probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn’t one I’ll make one, but I don’t want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists…
qBittorrent handles selections of individual files quite well. The only downside is a side effect of the protocol: If a data block spans two files (because their size is not an exact multiple) it will create a “partial” file with a strange name next to it - which you need to keep it complete/seeding.