Toolbar Confusion
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:46 am
When I was doing my router thermal tests, detailed in this thread: http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... 054#p40292 I did have a problem with toolbar button confusion, which happend at about 2:30 am in the middle of some other tests that I was preoccupied with. I wanted to pause Transmission but pressed the remove button next to it by mistake - I was about half way through a 5.8 GB file download. Anyway, I tried to put the torrent script in again to get it going again, but then I noticed I'd put the wrong one in so I had to remove that one then find the right one and put that in instead. But it seemed to be telling me I must begin downloading from the start again. I thought, not now, I'm a bit too tired for this so I decided to quit Transmission - it warned me that if I did I'd lose unsaved data. Well it had only loaded a couple of kilobytes so I thought the rest of my download from my earlier session was safe, on disk. It wasn't. When I quit Transmission it wouldn't stop, so I force quit it and it wouldn't force quit. So I switched off my laptop but it was waiting for Transmission to quit, so I removed the battery - and then it stopped.
When I booted everything up again and started transmission it went into verifying data mode, and managed to find around a gigabyte of data that it seemed to have misplaced, due to my bleary-eyed toolbar confusion. As the tracker operates in bandwidth suck mode early on, the net loss was about 3GB, but better than started again from scratch. I thought once Transmission had downloaded data it had saved it, so I wasn't sure why it was telling me if I quit now unsaved data will be lost. If it wants me to save it surely it should say so?
Anyway, it was my error, and I've reconfigured the toolbar with a different icon down the other end of the toolbar, away from the similar looking and deadly remove button. I realise I'm unfamiliar with Transmission, being a new user, but I thought you might find the feedback useful.
Cheers
When I booted everything up again and started transmission it went into verifying data mode, and managed to find around a gigabyte of data that it seemed to have misplaced, due to my bleary-eyed toolbar confusion. As the tracker operates in bandwidth suck mode early on, the net loss was about 3GB, but better than started again from scratch. I thought once Transmission had downloaded data it had saved it, so I wasn't sure why it was telling me if I quit now unsaved data will be lost. If it wants me to save it surely it should say so?
Anyway, it was my error, and I've reconfigured the toolbar with a different icon down the other end of the toolbar, away from the similar looking and deadly remove button. I realise I'm unfamiliar with Transmission, being a new user, but I thought you might find the feedback useful.
Cheers