Sort by file piece position on content tab #17144

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opened 2026-02-22 03:41:46 -05:00 by deekerman · 0 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-22 03:41:46 -05:00

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Originally created by @Kompootor on GitHub (Sep 2, 2025).

Suggestion

On the "Content" tab of a torrent, an optional column could be the starting piece position, and perhaps another column could be the number of pieces the file occupies. These columns are iirc available in uTorrent.

I understand this information may be somewhat redundant with holding shift + hovering on the "General" tab, but when there are many small files, or many pieces, this is very difficult to determine precisely, and the importance of this I'll attempt to illustrate:

Use case

In a torrent with many small files, where many of the files are poorly or not seeded (such as nfo files), it can be not obvious to determine whether the files overlap the header or footer data of the main file(s) of interest. This overlap is therefore important to determine whether or not the data is effectively useless. (It is also important if using qbittorrent verify, when creating torrents, whether or not one has correctly arranged such small files in the correct position to avoid this reseeding problem, as opposed to using a separate torrent inspector program. In fact, just having an built-in or command-line-accessible torrent inspector with the program would be quite sufficient.)

Extra info/examples/attachments

Example: a torrent originally from the Internet Archive has a few small files: "..._meta.xml" , "..._meta.sqlite", and "__ia.thumb.jpg". If the torrent is a large music album, with few seeds, these files may be scattered and/or difficult to place with the mouse cursor on the "General" tab. If these small files are missing, the indication that a file shares data with these is that they have less than 100% availability, but it is not clear if this is at the header or footer. If the file is very slow to download and/or the position of the header is difficult to see in the "General" tab, a good chunk of the file has to be downloaded to check this, with a good bit of user attentiveness.

This is similar to #14394 and #7678 , but those are asking for graphical displays of individual file chunks, for which I haven't personally found too much need in comparison to just verifying header position (and hence a sortable column).

Originally created by @Kompootor on GitHub (Sep 2, 2025). ### Suggestion On the "Content" tab of a torrent, an optional column could be the starting piece position, and perhaps another column could be the number of pieces the file occupies. These columns are iirc available in uTorrent. I understand this information may be somewhat redundant with holding shift + hovering on the "General" tab, but when there are many small files, or many pieces, this is very difficult to determine precisely, and the importance of this I'll attempt to illustrate: ### Use case In a torrent with many small files, where many of the files are poorly or not seeded (such as nfo files), it can be not obvious to determine whether the files overlap the header or footer data of the main file(s) of interest. This overlap is therefore important to determine whether or not the data is effectively useless. (It is also important if using qbittorrent verify, when creating torrents, whether or not one has correctly arranged such small files in the correct position to avoid this reseeding problem, as opposed to using a separate torrent inspector program. In fact, just having an built-in or command-line-accessible torrent inspector with the program would be quite sufficient.) ### Extra info/examples/attachments Example: a torrent originally from the Internet Archive has a few small files: "..._meta.xml" , "..._meta.sqlite", and "__ia.thumb.jpg". If the torrent is a large music album, with few seeds, these files may be scattered and/or difficult to place with the mouse cursor on the "General" tab. If these small files are missing, the indication that a file shares data with these is that they have less than 100% availability, but it is not clear if this is at the header or footer. If the file is very slow to download and/or the position of the header is difficult to see in the "General" tab, a good chunk of the file has to be downloaded to check this, with a good bit of user attentiveness. This is similar to #14394 and #7678 , but those are asking for graphical displays of individual file chunks, for which I haven't personally found too much need in comparison to just verifying header position (and hence a sortable column).