Torrent client with good file selection needed

[Blanka]

Probably many here probably know the problem
Take a 10Gb+ torrent with 10000 files. You only want 200 files to download.

I need a torrent client that:
- allows sorting the files by name and selecting the ones to download
- only puts the selected files in the download folder. Not the files that share the same download-chunks as the wanted files too.
- works on OSX 10.4 or Win XP

Anybody know a good one?

[HaRuMaN]

Vuze

[Blanka]

How is Vuze today? I remember the old days of bloated bundle-wared Azureus, guess that one was converted to Vuze later. Lean and mean again?

[HaRuMaN]

Ehh... it's still bloated, but it will do what you want.   

[Hoopz]

uTorrent handles that fairly well.  I frequently select a small number of files from a large torrent.

I may be missing something from your second bullet point though.  I dont think uTorrent does that but I always move files around once the torrent is complete and delete the old containing folder.

[Blanka]

Vuze does pretty good on the selecting (but horribly slow), but it creates ALL files in the download folder and demands all Gb to be free on the HD  
This makes Vuze a worse option than Transmission is, so both are bad.


MuTorrent does not run on OSX 10.4, but i can try the windows version at home.

[Hoopz]

Vuze does pretty good on the selecting (but horribly slow), but it creates ALL files in the download folder and demands all Gb to be free on the HD  
This makes Vuze a worse option than Transmission is, so both are bad.


MuTorrent does not run on OSX 10.4, but i can try the windows version at home.

uTorrent will give you a pop up saying that there's not enough room on the HD for the size of the torrent, but you can choose to download it anyway.  If it's a 200gig torrent, yet you only select 1 gig, it'll work without a problem.  The newer versions are much faster/easier in selecting the individual files out of 8,000+ etc too.

[Ginsu Victim]

Vuze does pretty good on the selecting (but horribly slow), but it creates ALL files in the download folder and demands all Gb to be free on the HD

Vuze doesn't do that anymore. It might make some of the files if they share a chunk or whatever, but it doesn't require the full download size.

[Blanka]

uTorrent runs great. Even on my Atom internet station, selecting in 10000 files is peanuts. uTorrent combines all chunks with other file content in one big temp file which is thrown away after finishing. Excellent!

[ChadTower]

uTorrent handles that fairly well.  I frequently select a small number of files from a large torrent.

+1.  And it does all of those things.  You can configure a different dir for the .part files than the download dir.  Just make sure you keep it on the same physical drive or you're multiplying the amount of work being done by a factor of maybe 3 or 4.

[Hoopz]

uTorrent runs great. Even on my Atom internet station, selecting in 10000 files is peanuts. uTorrent combines all chunks with other file content in one big temp file which is thrown away after finishing. Excellent!

Glad that worked.  You missed a few versions back where it would take forever to not select all the files and then select just a few.  I'm not bitching about free programs that others do though.  Just observing.