Brave-browser: Write webtorrents to disk when done

[tomlowenthal]

If I completely download a file with webtorrent and then restart my browser, I have to start over. That's not the best. When a torrent is finished downloading, it should probably be written to disk. That seems like a thing which'll be needed before someone can use the file for whatever they need that file for.

It seems reasonable to write the file to the same downloads folder that we put everything else in. This should probably be a default. It would also be reasonable to make this destination configurable — either for torrents on the whole, or for a specific torrent.

[levinobre]

Same situation here. Previously (Brave), WebTorrent saves the temp file in C:\tmp\webtorrent. I think that Brave Dev/Beta should implement this option as done in Brave.

[srirambv]

+1 from https://community.brave.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-webtorrents-located/38434

[eljuno]

+1 from Community https://community.brave.com/t/torrent-client-in-brave/43474?u=eljuno

[Michaelmantion]

I would like to use brave browser but use torrents a lot. Can we just disable braves built in torrent program some how?

[bsclifton]

@Michaelmantion yes - you can go to brave://settings and under Extensions you should be able to disable 😄

[Michaelmantion]

Thanks

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, 01:21 Brian Clifton [e-mail] wrote:

@Michaelmantion https://github.com/Michaelmantion yes - you can go to
brave://settings and under Extensions you should be able to disable 😄
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[bsclifton]

@rebron should we bump this up in priority? (P4? P3?)

Definitely seems annoying that you can't choose where to save (and you have to know it was stored in temp folder). Almost makes this feature useless

[wojciechrak]

I'd even say, that it should write downloaded data to disk during all download process, not only when it's finished. Now if you close the tab/browser or page crashes ("Aw Snap!" - happened to me just now), you lose all progress. It would be nice if it behaved more like regular torrent client in this regard.

[lifeinchords]

+1 to @wojciechrak. ie, pause and resume

[Sowiedu]

How in the everliving f* is this still an issue? I don't get it. What am I missing here? You add awesome features and this right here makes it 100% unusable. I'm a fairly adept user of torrents and IT in general and I was so happy having a way to just download a torrent without having to do anything additional. It could just work. And this two year old problem which is the single most important thing in a download itself, much more in a torrent is still open? Was this a design decision or is it in some way architecture related that this doesn't work as any sane person would expect it wo work? Don't get me wrong, I just downloaded a metric s*ton of data and lost it all. I may be ranting a bit, but I appreciate the work that goes into brave. I just do not understand how this issue persists til today. That's almost 2 years. Is it like a legal thing that this issue is considered P5?

[charltonh]

This is still an issue. Robbed me of some time and made me very angry. Broken software for years?

[volkans80]

Very annoying...