The details pane
The details pane shows one torrent: the one selected. With several selected, it asks you to
select one. Ctrl+Shift+D (View → Details Pane) shows or hides it.
Where it sits
The pane sits under the list, beside it on the right (running the full height of the window), or is collapsed. Use View → Details Pane on the Right / Details Pane at the Bottom, the palette’s Move Details Pane Between Bottom and Right, or Settings → General → Appearance → Details pane. Hiding the pane keeps its place, and each place keeps its own size. The tab you were on is remembered.
The header
At the top: a disc in the state’s colour, the torrent’s name and a line with its size, file count, category and how long ago it was added. Beside them are Pause (or Resume), Reannounce, Open folder and ··· for more actions. These run the same commands as the menus, with the same keys.
Overview
The diagnosis. When a torrent is not moving, an amber card says why, in plain words, and offers what can be done about it. The first rule that fits wins:
| Situation | The card says | Remedies offered |
|---|---|---|
| An error stopped it | what libtorrent reported | Try again, Open its folder |
| It is waiting in the queue | its place and when it starts | Start it now (force resume) |
| No peer is connected | no trackers, trackers not answering, or nobody sharing it right now | Add trackers…, Ask the trackers again |
| Pieces are on no peer in the swarm | how many, how much, and the availability | Add trackers…; Skip that file and finish the rest, when the missing pieces all belong to one wanted file and there are others |
| Peers are connected but none is sending | that they send when a slot frees; nothing to do but wait | none |
| Nothing has arrived for a while | how long, though peers are connected | Ask the trackers again |
The piece strip. A bar of the torrent’s pieces, bucketed to fit the width. Pieces you have are filled; pieces that are missing and that no connected peer has are amber. A seed shows no amber.
The sparkline. Download and upload over the last minute, or over as much history as the selection has.
The facts. Pieces (how many you have, of how many, and their size), peers connected and seeds, downloaded and uploaded with the ratio, the info-hash, the save path, and the rest, with a Copy button. At 760 pixels wide and up they are laid out in two columns, below that in one.
Files
The torrent’s files as a tree, each with its icon, progress and priority (Skip, Low, Normal or High). Change a priority in place; the change is sent to the engine at once. The right-click menu has Open File, Open Folder, Open Containing Folder and Rename… for files and folders.
A file’s icon comes from its extension: folder, video, audio, image, book (ebooks and comic
archives), document, subtitle, archive (split archives such as .r00 or .001 included), disc
image, data, program, or other.
The Files tab is empty until a magnet’s metadata arrives.
Peers
Every connected peer: address, client, flags, progress, download and upload rates, and how much has been downloaded from and uploaded to it. The right-click menu has Copy Address and Ban Peer, which adds the peer’s host to the manual bans of the IP filter at once.
Trackers
Each tracker’s URL, tier, status (working, updating, not contacted, error) and last message. Add Trackers… takes URLs separated by spaces or lines, Reannounce asks them all again, and Remove takes the selected tracker off. A torrent with no trackers still finds peers through DHT and PEX.
Under the trackers are the torrent’s web seeds (HTTP or HTTPS servers that hold the files), with Add Web Seeds… and Remove.
Log
The Event Log for this torrent alone: when it was added, when its metadata arrived, when it was checked or finished, its tracker and disk errors.
Speed
The torrent’s download and upload graph over the last minute, ten minutes, hour or day, with the
current rate and the peak in the legend. Every torrent keeps its recent rates while it is in the
list, so the graph is not empty the first time you open it. The same graph for the whole session
is in View → Statistics (Ctrl+Shift+T).