Downloads appear to be active, but no progress bar.

[TangoArtist]

For the past week, torrents added to Transmission show up in the All, Active, and Downloading tabs and there seems to be activity but. . . there is NO progress bar and despite indicated DL speeds sometimes approaching 15–20 MB/s the Time Remaining never seems to approach zero, and there is no progress bar to indicate the portion of the file downloaded. There IS a folder created in the INCOMPLETE DL folder and there is a .part file created but it appears that the DL is in an infinite loop.

For context, due to other, unrelated, issues, I downloaded and started using µTorrent Web for Mac and am now having similar issues with it. However, when adding a torrent, no actual download listing is added and it doesn't add anything to the DL folder.

Any ideas on what's going on with Transmission -- or my Mac -- that would effect downloads?

I'm connected through ExpressVPN to Spectrum on a Gigabit Internet connection. (Actual speeds vary, from ~100 MB/s to 800 MB/s.)

I am thoroughly stumped. Suggestions welcome.

[ProfML]

I have exactly this issue for several torrents.

44 of 49 peers.. DL speeds of 2.3 MB/s (or so...)
Time to download, 3 min 20 seconds-ish

Been like that for a week... still nothing happening with the progress bar, the file in the download destination is effectively empty.

[TangoArtist]

ProfML,

Both of my torrent clients -- Transmission and µTorrent Web –– started having similar issues at about the same time, within hours. Are you on Spectrum?

[darmok]

torrents added to Transmission show up in the All, Active, and Downloading tabs and there seems to be activity but. . . there is NO progress bar

Make sure you haven't accidentally hit cmd-T (Compact View).

the Time Remaining never seems to approach zero

Getting the data for the last few pieces can be a PITA. The client (Transmission) isn't asking for enough data to make seeders interested, so you kindof get deprioritized, as it were, until some peer decides to pay attention.

[jbell84]

I have the same problem. Spectrum, Express VPN. Under show title, indicates 0 of xxx MB, (0.00%).

Everyone may already have figured this out: I didn’t remember this happening until the last few days after I updated to v4.0.4. Fortunately, I had v3 and it works perfectly. It may be my perception, but it seems like the v3 DLs are much faster than v4 ever was. Hopefully, it’s a bug that can be fixed. Or maybe I just got lucky.

[pjd813]

I have no idea if this relates:
I was adding torrents and I was also finding that there was no progress bar action even when there was minor activity (double digit mb speeds that was very sporadic). Over time I noticed that I was adding torrents that had little or no peers. I wasn’t using the feature of the search engine that updated the peer count. If the torrent peer count had not been updated in years a torrent that at first looked like it had a great ratio and many seeds would turn out to have either a horrible peer to leecher ratio or no peers at all once updated.