So I downloaded this Pre-Installed game from a respected torrent site. But whenever I run the game, the bottom 5 files get updated/changed apparently. And this torrent goes to the error section in Qbittorrent. Now I have to delete the exe and other small files from my folder and redownload them again through this torrent else this torrent wouldn’t seed.

So I would not be able to seed those bottom 5 files unless I have a completely fresh install of the game ? and that means, I either have to unselect those bottom 5 files from my torrent client or create a copy of the game in another Folder so the exe and other python files don’t get updated as I play the game ?

  • GingerBreadMan@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You could always try “force recheck” in the torrent application once you finish playing. It’s likely that whatever changes are happening to those files only occurs while the game is open

    Yeah I’ve tried that, it didn’t work, I even tried restarting the system before doing a force recheck to make sure they’re not open in the background but it still doesn’t work.

    You could hard link the files that don’t change to a new folder, then copy the ones that do change

    I was thinking of doing this too as I mentioned in my other comment, this seems the only option.

    • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      If you wanna hard link a directory btw, use cp -lR <src-dir> <dest-dir> to do it. You can’t actually hard link the directory itself, only its contents, so this command will create the directory structure and hard link the files within them.