{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4967","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/qbittorrent/qBittorrent","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4967/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4967/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4967/events","html_url":"https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4967","id":141234965,"number":4967,"title":"Pre-allocate disk space for all files","user":{"login":"PresidioSF","id":17516289,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17516289?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF","html_url":"https://github.com/PresidioSF","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PresidioSF/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-03-16T10:46:28Z","updated_at":"2016-03-17T01:55:49Z","closed_at":"2016-03-17T01:55:49Z","body":"I am unsure how this works in qBitTorrent.\r\n\r\nI prefer to use this option, as it ensures I have enough disk space for what is downloading.\r\n\r\n\r\nHowever, qBitTorrent seems very slow to pre-allocate disk space and the torrent will remain stationary for a long time before anything starts to move. Sometimes this can be up to 15 minutes for a single torrent (depends on the size).\r\n\r\nIf starting multiple torrents at once, it could be an hour or maybe double that sometimes before any movement occurs.\r\n\r\n\r\nIn other clients, the disk space is allocated almost instantly and the torrent begins to download within a very short time (minutes if not seconds sometimes). I think how this is probably achieved is by allocating an empty file of the required size (and when the torrent begins to download the empty pieces begin to fill).\r\n\r\nIs it possible that qBitTorrent can pre-allocate faster?\r\n\r\n\r\nqBitTorrent is a great and lightweight little program, but this issue is absolutely torturous!"}}