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Torrent file list improvements

by Guest on 2026/04/05 03:01:12 AM    
There's a nice quality of life enhancement from another client. If you have a very long list of files in many different directories (because some torrents are made by mad men), and you've only checked a small number of files in various different places for download, trying to pinpoint them later by scrolling and careful page up and down checks gets annoying really fast. You don't remember their exact paths or scroll positions forever. A switch to hide all unwanted files at once in the context menu or on some panel would be great. Sorting by priority works fine for single-level file lists, but multi-level hierarchies can benefit from presentation filter that only shows a dozen of files you want to have instead of hiding them among thousands of greyed ones.

In addition, there seems to be no option to sort files by their internal order in torrent metadata (neither in initial import prompt, nor in the main panel). Some of those torrents were also made by appending files in unexpected ways, and have giant piece sizes, so checking a number of small text files or images that seem to be next to each other can result in explosion of unneeded data. Seeds are sometimes half-dead, and won't send much. Being aware of piece order and divisions would help with figuring out which files to probe.

Also, Tixati only shows the number of files in torrent once, on import. It might be important sometimes because of memory consumption by those torrents (even if you don't download any of their files at all). One example I have is an archive of a long gone website,
(link removed by Mod and sent to Devs)
It's a 2+ MB torrent file with almost 35 000 files, so each file path is about 50 bytes on average. Adding it to the client make its memory grow by 60 MB. I do understand that the program stores way more than just strings, and other graphical applications (like Torrent File Editor) grow just as much, so it's not a big problem by itself. But there's always someone who might add too many of those in advance, or for comparison, and then scratch their head about Tixati memory usage without any active “big” downloads.




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