Exclude folders with a certain name?

Submitted by BFG on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 19:40
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Soulseek General Discussion

My torrent client (qBittorrent) creates .unwanted folders when there are files partially downloaded. Those get shared by soulseek and people end up downloading broken and incomplete files. Is it possible to exclude all folders with the name .unwanted from being shared?

Submitted by sammy123 on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 20:57.

Hi BFG
folders not, but file types. That's done under "Options-File sharing-Filenames ex...."
Cheers

Submitted by BFG on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 22:04.

Thanks for the answer sammy123!
I had seen that option, but that doesn't help much as those files are just regular .mp3's
It would be nice to see that implemented in a future version though.
Cheers

Submitted by sammy123 on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 21:42.

Hi
it might be practical, no question about it. You could put that into the Main Menu-Feature request. Another way would be to seperate the processes by different folder structures.
Cheers

Submitted by sammy123 on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 07:35.

P.S.: Of course it's possible to exclude files/folder under Windows or Linux by restricting the file/folder allowance to NOT the SLSK User. Doing is starting SLSKqt as a different user than e.g. torrent. As SLSK has to obey the rules by the filesystem it could not read files/folder where the SLSK user (e.g. User2) is not allowed to view/access/read.
That's a bit unusual but under unix a best practise rule: only give enough rights so it works, never more.