Running Ktorrent <SOLVED>

[Newlife]

Last night was my first experience downloading a file with ktorrent.

First, the file was large [695 MB], and I finally found it after download in home/.kde/apps/share/ktorrent
The file "name" appears to be cache and shows the 695MB. BUT I don't know what to do with the file, or how to make an ISO of it.

Sadly, there is no help file with ktorrent, and I have not been able to find any information about working with it either. Usually I just download files in Firefox or kget, but could not download this file with either.

Thank you ... newlife

[Xero]

It should have asked you where you wanted it saved. I always go into the options (or its it tools?) menu, and find where it offers to let you set your download directory. I create one for downloads, one for where it should move the completed downloads. It lets you set where you want these. I suggest you go into the options and set this for future downloads. While you are there, check out the other options available.

Does the file you found appear to have the full name and extension? What is it's extension? Is it a zipped file or something? More info would help me/us provide you with a more concrete answer.

[Newlife]

In the following directory:
/home/newlife/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor1

Under "name" column there is:
cache  695 MB       

File type is:
plain text

And under Link column is:
/home/newlife/greatsmokyver01 .....

My download is set to "ask me where to put file"  but I was never asked.  I first got a 14kb file, and nothing happened until I clicked on that file and then the download just started.

n

[pags]

In the following directory:
/home/newlife/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor1

Under "name" column there is:
cache  695 MB       

File type is:
plain text

And under Link column is:
/home/newlife/greatsmokyver01 .....

My download is set to "ask me where to put file"  but I was never asked.  I first got a 14kb file, and nothing happened until I clicked on that file and then the download just started.

n

I believe this is just a "link" to your downloaded file...

from a konsole, try the following:

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cd /home/newlife/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor1
ls -lh

You should see something not dissimilar to:

[jpaglia@core2pclinuxos tor4]$ ls -lh
total 36K
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jpaglia jpaglia   64 Feb 25  2009 cache -> /home/public/media/ISOs/linux/Debian/debian-500-i386-netinst.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jpaglia jpaglia   16 Sep 14 16:37 current_chunks
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jpaglia jpaglia 4.7K Feb 25  2009 index
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jpaglia jpaglia   12 Sep 14 16:37 peer_list
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jpaglia jpaglia  270 Sep 14 22:40 stats
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jpaglia jpaglia  12K Feb 25  2009 torrent
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jpaglia jpaglia    0 Sep 14 16:37 trackers
[jpaglia@core2pclinuxos tor4]$

Note in my case, the cache file is a link (it points) to:
/home/public/media/ISOs/linux/Debian/debian-500-i386-netinst.iso

[Newlife]

Gotcha,

I have the same file names as you have.
Under the Link column appeared to be WHERE i could find the file.
The file appears to be there.

I will try to burn the ISO and if successful, I will mark this problem SOLVED.

newlife

[Newlife]

Thanks pags and all,

I still don't understand how ktorrent "works" but I did find the downloaded file and this problem was SOLVED.

newlife