When you load a
torrent with multiple files into the uTorrent Bit torrent client, you will
notice that uTorrent by default will not prioritize any file in particular.
While that may not be an issue most of the time, especially not if the torrent
is well seeded. There are however situations where you may want to prioritize
files in the program, for instance when you download a media file that you want
to preview this way. You could do that by downloading the beginning of the
first file right at the start, to preview the media file that way.
Another reason for downloading
files in priority is if you want to have them available at the very earliest
moment. Instead of download files left and right without order, you might want
to download files one by one instead so that you have the complete file on your
hard drive. This may be important for accessing as soon as possible, but also
if you fear that the original seeder might shut down the seeding. Instead of
being left with incomplete files, you would have at least some finished files
on your computer.
The Bit torrent client uTorrent
offers several configuration options, some automatic, some manual, that you can
use to prioritize file downloads in the client.
Probably the biggest option that
you have at your disposal is only available manually, unfortunately. You can
highlight specific files in a torrent and change their priority. The client by
default supports the three priority ratings high, normal and low, which you can
increase to 15 with a click on Options > Preferences > UI Settings > Use fine grained file priorities.
The second option, still manual, is the Prioritize
by file order option that you see in the screenshot above. This basically
prioritizes downloads based on the order of files in the file listing. If you
select all files, uTorrent will try and complete the first file before it jumps
to the second, then third, and so on. There is unfortunately no option to
automate this setting in uTorrent.
Open the preferences again, and select Advanced this time.
Here you find several advanced configuration options. Locate bt.prio_first_last_piece here
and set its value to true. This is an automatic setting that makes uTorrent
prioritize the first and last piece of a file over everything else. Keep in
mind that this does not necessarily mean that the whole file will be
prioritized. It is mainly there to provide users with a way to preview media
files as soon as possible.
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