rtorrent behavior

**finger_licking** · December 14th, 2008, 10:37 AM

I've noticed that boxee never stops or moves my torrents over to ~/.boxee/download.

Per the example here: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/R...pletedtorrents

The line that controls this action in ~/.boxee/UserData/rtorrent.rc.linux should read:

on_finished = move_complete,"execute=/bin/mv,-u,d.get_base_path=,~/.boxee/downloads/ ;$d.set_directory=~/.boxee/downloads/"

rather than:
on_finished = move_complete,"execute=/bin/mv,-n,d.get_base_path=,~/.boxee/downloads/ ;$d.set_directory=~/.boxee/downloads/"

There is no `mv -n` in the GNU mv, but there is in OS X's BSD mv.

Having said that, and changing my file and the one in /opt/boxee/system, my torrents still never get moved.

Does anyone using linux have the files move? I'm thinking about trying a fresh install this afternoon.

Cheers and thanks for the great software!

**finger_licking** · December 24th, 2008, 03:02 PM

Has anyone gotten any torrents to automagically move to ~/.boxee/downloads upon completion?

**antwerx** · February 9th, 2009, 11:27 PM

Did you ever get this to work?

**pimlottc** · February 11th, 2009, 10:19 AM

I'm experiencing this problem as well on Mythbuntu Jaunty.

I haven't had time to mess with it, but I recall a note in the rtorrent changelogs suggesting there was a change in this area, it may just require an update to the rtorrent config file.

**PhynaeudClaw** · February 19th, 2009, 03:37 PM

Is it possible to specify where to save downloads such as torrents? I have 1TB drive I want to use as my media drive. It would be nice to move the torrents to a folder on that drive. Every time I try to change the download location I get an error stating that the changes couldn't be saved.

Is there a config file I can edit?

**pimlottc** · February 24th, 2009, 07:27 PM

The config file is at ~/.boxee/UserData/rtorrent.rc.linux

**pimlottc** · February 24th, 2009, 09:21 PM

I figured it out. In your rtorrent rc file (~/.boxee/UserData/rtorrent.rc.linux), change this line:

Code:

on_finished = move_complete,"execute=/bin/mv,-n,$d.get_base_path=,~/.boxee/downloads/ ;d.set_directory=~/.boxee/downloads/"

to:

Code:

on_finished = move_complete,"execute=/bin/mv,-u,$d.get_base_path=,~/.boxee/downloads/ ;d.set_directory=~/.boxee/downloads/"

Basically you're changing the option to the move command from "-n" to "-u". "-n" is valid on Mac OS X but doesn't exist on standard GNU mv.

After you do this, kill rtorrent ("killall boxee-rtorrent") and restart boxee to start it up again. Your old completed torrents will stay in .tmp but any new torrent that finished should move to ~/.boxee/downloads correctly.