Torrent downloading unselected

I want to download only one file from magnet by this command: However, it always download the unselected files. I know adding "--bt-remove-unselected-file=true" will remove the unselected files when download is completed. But downloading the unselected files will cost extra time and disk space. There is a way to just download only selected. Open any torrent file which has multiple files within for downloading. After the metadata is retrieved, uncheck any file and process the torrent for download. After download completion, check the folder to find even the unchecked file has been downloaded.  ·  · I'm using Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" x64, both the Cinnamon and Xfce versions. Transmission is at version Since the beginning of using Transmission, back in , this bug has been present: some torrents come in folders and inside those folders are items (files) that I don't want to download (some are just garbage and some others are parts of the torrent that I simply don't .

Libtorrent doesn't support partial torrent downloading in compact allocation mode yet. This is not a bug because the unselected files won't be really downloaded. However, they will appear on the hard-drive at their final size (filled with zeros). I asked libtorrent author about this but this is not a priority for him. !python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools whe el python -m pip install lbry-libtorrent apt install python3-libtorrent. Added --bt-remove-unselected-file option. Removes the unselected files when download is completed in BitTorrent. To select files, use --select-file option. If it is not used, all files are assumed to be selected. Please use this option with care because it will actually remove files from your disk. This option is default to false.

I don't think that this is the problem. The files that I have downloaded from the torrent provided in the website are video files, and I have many other torrents from other websites that are video files and don't have this issue. This also occurs if I don't even open/edit the files in the torrents before opening qBittorrent. !python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools whe el python -m pip install lbry-libtorrent apt install python3-libtorrent. In Transmission, right-click on the torrent and click Properties. In the torrent's properties dialog, click the Files tab. You can uncheck files in the Downloads column. If the torrent has a folder structure, you can check and uncheck whole folders too.