On startup, Tribler takes 10-30 minutes checking previously loaded torrents. Any way to stop this?

I guess I’ve never noticed other clients taking that long of a time, regardless of how large the torrent is. Thanks for any suggestions.

How many torrents do you have?

Which version are you running?

Have you tried waiting for all the torrents to be checked completely and then ~5 minutes before shutting down Tribler to make sure all the download states are saved to disk?

Have you tried selecting the slow torrents and selecting “Force Start” on each of them?

IF you know you did a proper shutdown it should be okay to do, and if you didn’t then it still isn’t bad either…

The worst I have seen force starting torrents that say checking is that maybe you have to download part you had already downloaded the previous session… usually a few percent at worst.

The only time Tribler takes a while to start for me is after upgrading while I have a large number of torrents mid-download… and that is the database updating, I believe.

Good luck, 00sweeney

Thank you for your reply, but I quit using Tribler when I received copyright infringement notices for several torrents that I never downloaded. Tribler needs to be much clearer about the fact that thousands of other torrents from thousands of other users will be funneling through our IP addresses and that any single one of them could trigger a notice or suspension of service from our ISP providers. I’ve done enough Googling to know that I am not the only person who was blindsided by this issue.

Tribler is awful and I wish a plague up its house.

Sorry to hear you feel that way.

I have been using tribler for many months and do not get any notices because I came here, read what people had to say, and made adjustments to the application so I would not get in trouble for other people’s problems.

More warning on the main website would have been nice, but due diligence is important dealing with any program a person installs on their PC.

Good luck with whatever you decide to use in the future.

Knowing Tribler can be setup safely, the better answer is to read and then make adjustments to your configuration so you are not exposing yourself to those notices.

It’s up to you, of course… But I hope you see that installing an application without first learning everything about it is like buying an excavator and just trying to use it… Without education it is likely to be either inefficient, dangerous, or more expensive than needed…

Good luck

You’re either an [INSULTS REMOVED] if you think it’s my fault I didn’t know this program ran other people’s torrents through your IP address. You state yourself it’s not clear on the website. There are scores, if not hundreds of people who have complained of the same issue.

This is not user error. No, I think this was exactly the intent of the Tribler programmers–because they know that if you spelled out exactly what this program does, no one would use it.

There’s really no other explanation. Having TENS OF THOUSANDS–and I’m not exaggerating–of other torrents–including copyrighted material, as well as TONS of pornography–pass through your IP address is not something most people would opt for. Is that what you’re going to tell the guy who get’s arrested for downloading child pornography? “Sorry, you should have known this torrent client does what no other torrent client does. Too bad, so sad.”

In other news–every time someone makes a passive-aggressive comment like yours, God drowns a puppy.

Even better, I am an idiot-shill…

I wasn’t being passive agressive. It is obvious from your joining a day before your complaint about scanning taking so long that you installed software you had not researched thoroughly, the same as someone who automatically clicks OK on everything they see when reading software terms or installing applications. Buyer beware applies to free things too.

I am not having these issues because I joined the forum here before installing Tribler. I read, I learned.

If you had basic knowledge of what TOR is, you should have known how anonymity works reasonably. If you saw an unfamiliar term (TOR) maybe you should have looked it up?

When I don’t understand something I educate myself.

Better to get an education the easy way than the hard way…

You get a clear warning when starting Tribler asking you if you want to act as an exit node for other people’s traffic, it’s an opt-in dialog with “cancel” focused by default, so even if you don’t read the message and just hit ‘enter’ it’ll still stay disabled. Apparently you didn’t even read read the dialog and just clicked on ‘accept’.

That said, and seeing that people will just press ‘accept’ on any dialog without even looking at what it says, we have discarded the opt-in dialog on the next Tribler release, if you really want to act as an exit node, you will have to go to the settings panel and enable the feature there or run a dedicated service.

Also, stop disrespecting other people.

Sorry if my answers offended anyone, but as whirm pointed out, you don’t become an exit node by accidentally clicking okay on everything…

I should not have responded to the OPs second post, which was off topic 100%. My bad, though I am not sure what was offensive about the truth.

RE: starting taking so long… My experience has shown slow startup is usually if a proper stop and exit didn’t happen. Eg. A power failure or forced shutdown.

The exit node issue is well handled in other threads, and the better answer would have been none or a quick link to an appropriate thread discussing the issue.

Sorry for feeding the troll, who changed topics by his or her second post. I WILL attempt to not repeat that mistake.

Thanks for everyone’s understanding.