How to know if my torrent is finished downloading?

Example folder creation for utorrent if you didn't do this then finding torrents will be next to impossible to filter. Trash - for completed torrent and torrents when completed to move to so they don't remain in Torrents folder. I am really surprised that auto-detection of duplicate downloads by utorrent should not be possible.

The easiest way to implement this would be to keep hash values of all previously downloaded packages. Hash values are unique. When the user starts 3 weeks later the same torrent download then utorrent could at first in advance check the new hash value with the set of old hash values and popup a warning "torrent already downloaded" or similar.

So this should be possible in general. I don't think they will implement that as that would make it more system resource intensive for users of large torrent files. Just imagine it laboring to search your drives to find those files before downloading assuming they didn't move or change name. How would it locate them then.

I think for free or paid as it is there are trade-offs here. How to let uTorrent detect downloads which are already finished in past? Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Posted November 27, Assume I add a new torrent to uTorrent which run successfully for several months.

How can I get this? Is the presence of all the torrent files in "completed torrents" folder necessary? I want to avoid this. Where in which config file are all the hashes of the previously downloaded files stored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options There are different opinions on whether you should allow seeding or not, as well as whether you should use uTorrent at all.

Despite this, uTorrent is one of the most popular downloading platforms in the whole world. All you have to do is right-click on your file and choose Stop. Some users believe that downloading a video for yourself refusing to seed is selfish.

There are even some offensive names for those who usually behave like this. When it comes to the law, everything depends on the region you live in and its regulations. In fact, in some countries, seeding a file is a bigger offense than downloading it. Therefore, those who do seed might face a harsher penalty. Seeding takes a lot of data; it might take the same amount as the downloading process.