Some time ago a big tracker website went down, its name rhymes with the .rar file extension. A user had asked me how to remove those "Host not found" / "Timed out" entries from the transfers.
Option 1: Just skip them
In Tixati you can specify tracker URLs that should not be used. These trackers will not be removed, but for any active transfers they will not be contacted anymore (saves bandwidth but not CPU load). It's an OK solution but not the best.
Settings -> Transfers, Trackers -> Individual Tracker Options -> "Skip Announce" tab
There you would add each dead tracker URL per line. You can use the "Remove From New" so dead trackers never again make their way into your transfers. Example:
udp://9.rar.example:2134/announce
udp://9.rar.example:2634/
udp://9.rar.example:2230/
Although as I said these dead entries will remain in the tracker lists
Option 2: Remove them
In a later Tixati update an option was added to replace/remove entries in a search & replace fashion.
1. Select all transfers you want to search & replace/remove trackers from (if you go to the "All Transfers" category* then click once inside the transfers list then press CTRL+A to select
All transfers.
2. Right click a selected entry -> Trackers -> Find and replace
3. Type the URL**, test and replace/remove. Multiple matches are removed once iirc.
*Categories tutorial:
https://support.tixati.com/categories
**Search modes explained here:
https://support.tixati.com/search
But what if the ports were random like in the example above? You'd need to run search and replace THREE TIMES! Regular expressions are here to help.
These look like a magical code to find
loosely what you want. For example the placeholder for:
ANY NUMBER is:
\d
ANY NUMBER of ANY LENGTH >=1 is:
\d+
ANY NUMBER of ANY LENGTH (may as well not exists, i.e. length 0) is:
\d*
These examples should be correct, I hope I use the correct syntax here as Tixati. either way the idea stays the same
Find multiple entries at once: (entry1|entry2|entry3)
Based on my tests you don't need to escape the dash "-" manually with a backslash.
Search in RegEx mode with
random port:
udp://9.rar.example:\d+/
-> matches
udp://9.rar.example:2634/ and any other number at the end
Search in RegEx mode with
random port and any numeric subdomain (or none) rather than a "9":
udp://\d*.?rar.example:\d+/
--> note how I made the dot optional by adding a question mark.
Search in RegEx mode for **any of those URLs** as is:
(udp://9.rar.example:2634/|udp://rar.example:2634/|udp://rar.example/)
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And this is how I helped the user remove hundreds of obsolete trackers. Actually I believe he or she may have replaced them with the neutral "open trackr" without the space dot org.
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