A download's details

Select a download in the library to see it in the inspector, on the right of the window. Show or hide it with the Inspector button in the toolbar, or ⌘I.

At the top are the download’s name and status, and four buttons: Pause or Resume, Open, Finder and Remove. Below them are its tabs.

Select several downloads and the inspector shows how many, their total size and how much is left, with Remove… for all of them.

Files

Every file in the download, with its size and state. Choose files and their order explains everything you can do here: skipping files, setting priorities and downloading in order.

A magnet link has no files to show until peers send its details: “The file list appears once peers send the torrent’s details.”

Details

Transfer

Size	The size of the files you’re downloading, and of the whole torrent if you’ve skipped some.
Downloaded and Uploaded	How much this download has received and sent, in all.
Ratio	Uploaded divided by downloaded. 1.00 means you’ve shared as much as you took.
Seeds and Peers	How many you’re connected to, of how many the trackers know about.
Availability	How many full copies of the download the peers you’re connected to have between them. Below 1, no one has all of it right now.
Time Active	How long it’s been running.
Average Speed	Its download speed, on average, while active.
Wasted	Data that arrived damaged, or twice, and was thrown away.

Options

• Download pieces in order. Downloads the start of the files first, so you can watch a video while it downloads.
• Get first and last pieces first. Lets a media player read a file’s header and index early.

Location shows the folder its files are saved in, with Show to open it in Finder.

Torrent has its full Name, when it was added and completed, when the torrent was made and by what, its pieces, whether it’s Private (from a private tracker), its comment, and its Info Hash, the fingerprint that identifies it.

Peers

The people you’re connected to for this download: each one’s country flag, address, how much of the download they have, the app they use, whether you’re connected over TCP or µTP, and how fast data goes each way. A lock means the connection is encrypted.

Above the list, three counts:

• Seeding: peers that have the whole download.
• µTP: peers connected over µTP, BitTorrent’s protocol that eases off when your connection is busy.
• Incoming: peers that connected to you. Behind a closed port, these arrive through µTP hole punching. Port forwarding brings more.

Peers’ countries come from a database of IP addresses that OrbTorrent downloads once a month and looks up on your Mac. Nothing about your peers is sent anywhere.

Trackers

The servers that introduce you to other peers, and how each one is doing: Working, Updating, Not Contacted Yet, Not Working, Tracker Error or Unreachable. Point at one to see its full address and its last message.

Under Peer Discovery are the other ways OrbTorrent finds peers: DHT, PeX (peer exchange) and LSD (local peers). Find more peers explains each.

Ask for More Peers asks every tracker for more peers now, rather than at its next scheduled time.

Checks

What your extensions found when they checked this download, before it started and after it finished. The tab shows while extensions are on. Checks and held downloads explains.

Actions

These are in the More submenu when you right-click a download, and some are on the Details tab too:

• Ask Trackers for More Peers. Asks every tracker for peers straight away.
• Verify Local Data. Checks every piece already on disk against the torrent, and downloads again any that don’t match. Use it after moving files outside OrbTorrent, or if you think something’s damaged.
• Move To…. Moves the download’s files to another folder, and carries on from there. Use this rather than moving them in Finder, so OrbTorrent keeps track of them.
• Copy Name. Copies the download’s full name, even when it shows a tidy one.
• Copy Magnet Link. Copies a link anyone can use to download the same thing.