Bug 295970

Summary: Magnet torrents don't save to the proper directory
Product: [Applications] ktorrent Reporter: jmaldrich
Component: generalAssignee: Joris Guisson <joris.guisson>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: alexhs.tsi, nucleo, rdieter, sobotkav
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description jmaldrich 2012-03-14 00:56:26 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11
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Torrents opened from magnet links don't save in the proper directory as specified in the configuration menus. Instead of saving in whatever directory specified the data directory is ignored and it appears the "temporary" directory is used instead.

Fedora 16, X86-64.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open KTorrent
2.Click on a magnet link
3.Check what directory it is storing the download in.
Actual Results:  
Download stored in temporary directory and NOT moved to the "data" directory.

Expected Results:  
Should download to the "data" directory.

I asked about this a couple months ago and was told this was a "known issue" with magnet links. I just inquired about an ETA on the fix and was told that magnet links are disabled in the beta version. I hope that the release version will not be disabled as some popular torrent sites are going magnet-only.
Comment 1 Joris Guisson 2012-03-15 18:26:39 UTC 
upgrade to 4.2.0, this is fixed
Comment 2 nucleo 2012-03-15 18:37:36 UTC 
ktorrent-4.2.0 along with kde-4.8.1 submitted to Fedora 16 updates.
Please, test this update.
Comment 3 Alex Tsi 2012-08-19 21:01:36 UTC 
I use rekonq browser.
I'm on debian testing and have ktorrent 4.2.1 installed.
However the bug is still there (for me at least).
Comment 4 Vladimír Sobotka 2013-04-15 04:42:38 UTC 
Confirming that bug still there on Debian Wheezy. Ktorrent 4.2.1, KDE 4.8.4.