How to view an incompplete torrent download

NAS Support. Tober27 said:. Click to expand Rusty said:. Are you using sudo -i via ssh to get elevated to root? Then simply enter sudo -i and you will be prompted for a password. Enter the same DSM password for the account you have initially used to log in. If you want to make it easier for yourself, you could change Download Station's temporary location to an attached USB drive.

Thanks, but why is this easier than just having a temp folder on the NAS? And wouldn't it just wear out the USB, writing all files to both drives? I don't think there'd be a real wear difference. If you write the downloading files to a temporary location on the NAS, it then moves or copies them to their final location on the NAS; so they're written to the NAS drives multiple times.

The temp file is accessible through Windows now that I've created a visible one. I think you're right about the files being written to NAS twice though, which seems wasteful to me. If I move the temp folder inside the "video" where all my largest downloads go, then they'll only be written to the drive once though; right? Anything else, music, documents, will have to be moved, but they're much smaller files.

Even there, where the final video stays in the same folder, I think it gets rewritten on finalization You may be right, but I don't believe they're rewritten. An mkv file will have the same full file name, except will be ". If I'm mistaken, and anyone knows for sure, please tell me, as I think it's simpler if the temp file is separate, but not if it's adding extra write wear on the drive. It's not just being appended to, because the portions come in random order.

In any event, the wear from a few writes or even a few million writes seems pretty negligible. My understanding of bitorrents was that it is appending, adding to, the files until they're complete. And a few files wouldn't make a difference, but I'd have thought many large files constantly over years would make a difference.

I could be wrong though. I don't know much, just assuming. I don't see how it can be appending, since it is finding pieces all over the net in random order. I don't understand why it wouldn't be appending. It downloads all the parts until the file is complete. It's digital. It doesn't matter what order they're added. You can, just force recheck. Make sure filename and path is identical, relocate if needed. I've tried forcing them to recheck but it still considers them unfinished.

The files are exact duplicates but from different torrents. I'd just like to seed to the others since there's people who have been waiting over a month for seeders. My tips, force recheck the finished torrent too see if there are changes after recheck.

Sometimes, it's a bit like try to explain to children that putting ketchup on ice cream isn't that great an idea. Although it's not the norm, it is however delightful on top of certain flavors of ice cream!

Each palete may have subtle differences and reactions to the flavors. You may be pleasantly surprised. Ok, with all that is said here it is not possible. Is there a way to add this feature to the software?? I too would like to help others out with a torrent that is no longer working and no-one is seeding. I have all the files and would like to add them so others can download them.

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