BitComet Torrent Task Properties

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Select a BT task in the tasklist and right-click and choose Properties; you will open the task's properties dialog. Here, you can learn publisher information and file details, also, you may change the save path and change the download order within the task. There are four tabs contained in the properties dialog box.

Contents 1 General 2 Advanced 3 Publisher 4 Download order

General

Save Location

• Save Path: If you want to change the save location for files of the task you are checking, you can enter manually in the form or by clicking and navigate to your desired folder.
•  : Click this button and the current directory will be set as default directory.
• Filename: Filename only can be changed when the task is finished or stopped.

Torrent Content This is the information about the content of the task you are viewing.

• Name: name of the BT task.
• Publisher: details of the torrent publisher.
• Size: size of the downloading files/size of the whole task, free disk space.
• Files list: files contained in the task.

• • BitComet v.1.13 and later: BT task file list in properties dialog and right-bottom pane changes to tree list for directory structure; BT task file list in properties dialog and right-bottom pane support sorting; added new commands to context menu of BT task file list: expand/collapse folders.
• File type icons: choose the file type you want to download.

Advanced

Content of this tab is for advanced users. If you are new to BitComet, it's recommended to keep the default options.

• Tracker List：Trackers that you are downloading info from. This is managed automatically. No need to pay attention/modify these addresses.

Task Settings

• Search for Long-Time Seeds: Recommended. This will enable BitComet searching for other Long-Time seeds in order to maximize the rate of success for this download.
• Search for eDonkey download source: Only with ED plugin installed and enabled, can this function be used.
• Find Peers Using Public DHT Network: This can be used only after you enable Public DHT Network in Options-->BT Task. This can improve your download speed by acquiring other peers through the DHT Network.

• Find Peers Using Peer Exchange: This helps you find other BitComet peers through the Peer Exchange (PEX) mechanism and, potentially, improve your download speed.

• Share this task in Torrent Archive: This allows you to share your task with other BitComet users.

• Super-seeding (only for initial seeding server only): THIS NEEDS TO BE EDITED BEFORE FINAL VERSION IS RELEASED

• Enable Task Specific Settings: Change settings such as downloading or uploading rate for this task you are checking. This changes are valid only for the currently selected task, and all other tasks' download and upload rate will be subject to the overall settings you made in "Options"->"Connections"->General settings.

"Download Rate" and "Upload Rate": By default, the maximum download and upload rate are unlimited. Users can limit the download/upload rate according to their Internet conditions. But in order to let BitComet get the optimal performance, please test your Internet at test site such as speedtest.net, first. For more information about this, please go to our forum for help.

Tip: Usually, the default settings work best for your downloading task. It's recommended not to change the advanced options 
unless you know what you're doing.

Publisher

This tab lists the information about the publisher's name, URL and torrent creation date etc. And the .torrent file maker reserves the right for allowing this information to be changed or not. But in the new version 1.14, we have added options for users to add webseeding. Add a webseeding URL in the blank field, so that you can get data from certain HTTP server and improve your download speed.

Download order

In this tab, you can change the file download order according to your need. But this is not recommended, as changing default order may affect your download speed.

If you want to change file download order, you need to check the Enable customize file download order box first. After this checkbox is ticked, the "Move up" and "Move down" buttons will be available. Select a file you want to download first or later and then click these two buttons to change download order.

Please remember to click "OK" after you are done and the files will be downloaded in the new arranged order.

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