[Libtorrent-devel] "tie"ing torrents

[Josef Drexler]

On May 29, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:
[...]
>
> I think that it is trying to say (my insertion in CAPS):
>
>> The client may be configured to check a directory for new torrents  
>> and
>> load them. Torrents loaded in this manner will be tied to the  
>> filename and
>> when the file is deleted the torrent may be stopped or removed. If a
>> torrent which is tied to a file is removed from the client, the  
>> TORRENT
>> file will be deleted.
>
> Am I correct?  The way it's written sounds like the downloaded file(s)
> will be deleted.


Yes, more precisely the *tied* file will be deleted.

(Notwithstanding that you can set it up so that rtorrent deletes the  
downloaded file(s) when you remove the tied file.)

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Josef Drexler
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