BitTorrent download disappearing after reboot

Ubi · Post by **Ubi** » 28 Jul 2007, 06:40

I just found out that if I submit a Torrent for download, and then reboot, the download manager 'forgets' the torrent, but does not remove the (incomplete) files. Is there any way around this?

bubbalibre · Post by **bubbalibre** » 28 Jul 2007, 07:25

Hi Ubi,

You're right. The download manager, ftd, is loading the torrents to be downloaded in memory. Therefore, your downloads are "lost" when you reboot your bubba.

You can resume the downloads by submitting the same torrents again.

I tried to work around this and came with a new function : add from folder, described here. This is part of my 'tiny little hack', which modify the bubba web interface. The last release can be found here.

If you try it, please tell me what you think.

Best regards

Ubi · Post by **Ubi** » 29 Jul 2007, 09:42

Yeah i figured something like that, however reloading the torrent does not work. If I do that the torrent never starts. I had to remove the partial files for it to work again

Post by **tor** » 29 Jul 2007, 10:02

Hi Ubi,

You are right, as bubbalibre also said, in that if you reboot your Bubba the downloadmanager forgets currently ongoing downloads. Since we planned for Bubba to be always on we didn't prioritize resume download.

That of course turned out to be a weakness. So the next update of the download manager contains both the features resume on restart and as a bonus, automatical download of torrents whose torrent-files are stored in a special torrent directory.

Regarding re-adding a partial download using the same torrent file. That should work. But if you are restarting big downloads it can take a substantial time before the actual downloading resumes. This is due to the download manager checking which parts where already downloading by checksumming chunks of the download. And on big downloads that, as said, can take quite some time.

/Tor