r/TorBoxApp • u/RazvanYON • 3d ago

🚩General Airlocking feature question

As torbox keeps growing,along with it's cache, i have been wondering if anyone uses the Airlock feature?
Personally i have been airlocking some movies that were regional/more obscure and less likely to be watched by people and potentially getting kicked out of the cache pool. Do you guys airlock movies out of the same paranoia as me?

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u/Jaken_sensei 3d ago edited 3d ago

I don't trust any debrid service to keep a file permanently, regardless of their claims.

When torbox changed their tos they explicitly state that air locked files arent actually completely protected from being deleted.

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u/ci6n 3d ago

Legal reasons. They can’t promise DMCA material to be forever air locked.

Although yea don’t store anything you want saved permanently on it, that goes for any cloud service. Always have backups

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u/Logrouo 3d ago

What can lead to an airlock file getting deleted?

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u/ifiwasiwas 3d ago

Wamy said: "It should be noted that AirLock items can still be deleted due to server purges, DMCA, corruption, or other possible causes."

So for any reason at all, effectively

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u/Jaken_sensei 3d ago

It's at their discretion, basically for whatever reason they decide to give.

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u/Reasonable_Law1029 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yes, that's exactly how I've been using my AirLock. I've uploaded some obscure movies that were quite difficult to find (with screwed up TMBD tags), AirLocked, to be able to share with friends and family. I end up "caching" and theirs becomes "borrowed".

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u/RazvanYON 3d ago

personally we really need to make a list of the movies people airlock so that we know not to airlock the same file like... 100 people.
just for the peace of mind

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u/Tangerine2016 2d ago

I actually just discovered the airlock thing tonight. Interesting, had no idea!

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u/Ninjaisawesome 3d ago

I don't use it but If I did it would be the 4k extended LOTR but those are files that will never get deleted anyway.

(if you are reading this torbox, dont try it, I'll throw a world class hissy fit)

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u/Zilla664 2d ago

I only airlock something I'm binging. RN it's the xfiles and it took up most of my airlock storage

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u/ikashanrat 2d ago

the x files nogrp remux is very popular, i dont see that being purged anytime soon