Transmission: [feature request] add option to select files from magnet
azureus vuze has the ability to let me choose which files i want to download from a magnet file before starting the download...transmission just start the download of the entire file...would be nice to have that feature in transmission too...
an example : click on magnet , azureus opens and download magnet infos, ask what to download from magnet and then starts to download...transmission just start without asking...
legacychimera247
All 8 comments
So what you actually want when you add a magnet in paused mode is to have Transmission download the metadata and then stop. Why not ask for that?
killemov
on 22 Apr 2017
Why is this closed? What is the solution ?
ghost
on 3 Jul 2017
Looks pretty open to me @nishantkumarsah
mikedld
on 3 Jul 2017
Yes, I'd like this feature to be implemented too, it would be very useful, especially when there are a lot of large files in the torrent and you just need some of them, and this is a very common scenario from what I see.
Regards
mirkorm
on 14 Mar 2018
This would be super useful. What I have to do now is start the torrent from the magnet link, wait for it to download the metadata and inevitably part of the file data as well, then immediately stop the torrent, select the files I want, delete any unnecessary pieces that already downloaded, restart the torrent.
Also note this issue had a bug in the old bug tracker with a patch attached... might just be a matter of reviewing the patch and tweaking as necessary.
elisimpson
on 8 Feb 2019
@elisimpson : you might want to keep an eye on #852 related with what you currently do as workaround
pataquets
on 27 Apr 2019
@pataquets : I actually found a better workaround, which is start the magnet link with qbittorrent, which can download the metadata without starting the torrent. Then I save the metadata to a new torrent file and load it in transmission.
elisimpson
on 27 Apr 2019
Just adding my 2 cents: there is an old ticket on trac for this as well, and it has an attached patch but it is 7 years old…
@elisimpson you can also use a service such as Magnet >> Torrent to do that.
DidierLoiseau
on 30 Oct 2019
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So what you actually want when you add a magnet in paused mode is to have Transmission download the metadata and then stop. Why not ask for that?