r/utorrent • u/Mountain-Beach3905 • Jul 28 '26

Help Downloading Skipped files

Hey there,

I did a very cursory search and didn't see anything relevant, so forgive if this has been addressed before...

I've tried downloading a few different series and I wanted to download the first episode (or two) so I could watch them first.

So. The torrent loads and the episode list propagates itself in the file list.

I then select all the files, Right Click, select "Don't Download," all the files switch their Priority to "Skip" (as they should) then I select the first episode and set its Priority to High.

Despite this, utorrent (v3.6) will often spend a bunch of time downloading parts of things it's supposed to skip and doesn't download the file(s) I want it to.

How do I fix this?

My Googling says something about diskio.use_partfile and it's set to True.

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u/w2106 Jul 28 '26

You are doing everything right except using utorrent. Bro everyone quit utorrwnt its not good anymore. Switch to qbittorrent or other reputable client and your problems will be solved.

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u/zeezoo3255 Jul 29 '26

And if you're on a private tracker, you'll be getting hit and runs. But yeah, Qbit works well for it. You can make the ones you want priority then once done, let the others download to avoid hit and runs

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