Is there a simple/quick way to identify incomplete files when a transfer completes, besides manually keeping track?

I asked this question awhile ago, I was pointed to a config setting for incomplete filenames. I assume it would only apply to new transfers created after the setting was enabled, but it didn't do anything that I could see. I did try stopping all transfers, shutting down tixati and rebooting, then creating new transfers. I don't know what else I need to do.

Is anyone succesfully using that setting?

(Tixati 3.38 now but was 3.37 when I tried it. Lubuntu 22.04 fully patched. I am using full file preallocate due to a slow disk, in case that matters.)

My issue is this. I search for rare files, the transfers are seldom complete in total but may have one or more intact files, often I can put together a complete enough group of files from several incomplete transfers. I set priority off on the files I don't want from a transfer. The file gets preallocated on disk sometimes before I can turn priority off.

When the transfer completes, all pre-allocated files move to the completed directory, populated or not. I have to manually keep track or inspect every file to ensure it is an intact file. Since Tixati knows the file is not complete, could Tixati have an option to not move it to the output directory? I did try deleting the disk file after setting priorty off, but that confuses Tixati.

Thanks for help and ideas.
Kind regards,
--appyface

i use the incomplete setting and you are correct in that the incomplete file name setting in the settings only affects torrents made after the setting is turned on. after turning on that option, you should see, in your downloads folder, all new torrents with incomplete at the start of the file name, until they are complete. i'm not sure how you would get it to affect torrents already in tixati. i guess you could remove and then re-add the torrents and then point them at the previously downloaded bits to get them caught up. you may have to wait to move them until you have pre-allocated them.
there is also the move on complete setting in settings-transfers-locations, but that is more for when whole torrents are complete.

Thank you for your info. I couldn't get the incomplete filenames to work for brand new transfers added after the setting the option.

Do you use full file preallocate as I do?

I am hoping since Tixati knows which files are not complete at any point in time, any method that makes it possible to distinguish them would work for my purposes at least.

I have not had any problems with the incomplete setting, but I do not use full pre allocation, I use sparse. I did try using Full-Pre Write and it worked as it should. I notice you are on Lubuntu, I use Linux.
If you turned on the setting for 'Incomplete file name format' and if the box next to the checkmark looks something like 'incomplete.$file', you should be seeing files in your download folder that look something like 'incomplete.filename.avi'. You will not see the incomplete extension in Tixati, only in your download folder.
There is also a setting in transfers-files called 'Move individual files immediately upon completion', but this only works if you have a move on complete folder as well as a download folder.

Hi,

Thanks for reply. Lubuntu is Linux... distro is based on Ubuntu.

When you have a transfer that completes, and moves all files to the incomplete folder - and it has incomplete files - do you  see the incomplete filenames?

This is where I want to see them.

you will only see incomplete in file names in your download folder. once a file is complete it does not have the incomplete part in the file name anymore.
it will not move the torrent unless is it complete. so torrents in your move on complete folder should all be complete.