First open the torent in Azureus then click on it to highlight it.



Next either double click on the torrent or righy click and select show details



Click on the tab named files




Select the file or files you want ...highlight them using standard windows methods ie. to highligh multitle files in a row use shift while selecting them for files not in a sequence use ctrl then right click and select priority high



To make sure you don't waste your bandwith select the files you do not want as outlined above and right click and select do not download

A note about this - I am using the Azureus beta 2307_B35

A new feature makes it much easier to selectively download. It's a dialog box that appears when you add a torrent. From there you can simply check which files you would like.

Probably will be included in the next public release of Azureus, but I don't have any direct info on that.

EDIT: UPDATE - This feature is included in 2.4.0.0.

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hey I am using Azureus 2.4.0 and I am currently trying to download a 15 Gb file onto my 10 Gb drive.
(15Gb organized as 20*700mb approx.)

Well probllem is that usually I have just around 800mb free on my drive.

Now when I check on a single file(the other 19 cleared) and click on download, it starts downloading but after sometime gives me an error saying no space in my drive.

When I check to see what is the problem I find that Azureus has downloaded 1 or 2 pieces (each of 2mb) from files above and below it.(i.e if i am downloading the 17th file it downloads bits and pieces of the 16th and the 18th file) and hence Azureus can't find the space on my drive 'cause as soon as it downloads a piece I think it wants to allocate 700mb for the particular file!!

Is there anyway of overcoming this!!??

I'm not sure that there is, maybe some other members know better,


but as far as I know, when you download any torrent the complete size of the file/files are allocated on the hard drive for downloading irrespective of whether you only select a small percentage of the overall number of files.

Thus you only want 700M of a 10G file, 10G is still going to be allocated.

As said maybe somebody else knows otherwise, or hopefully this is a problem that might be corrected in future client versions.

The torrentpiece-boundaries don't follow the file-boundaries, so if you want a file-X from the torrent, then it's possible that beginning/ending parts of file-X are in torrentpieces that also contains parts of file-Y or file-Z. Whether or not file-Y & file-Z need to be completely allocated to get the overlapping torrentpieces, is something I don't know, though -- probably depends on which client you use.

If pre-allocation mode is active, then try turning it off -- that may help: Azureus Options>Files>disable the "allocate and zero new files on creation" option and enable the "enable incremental file-creation" option.