EDIT: sub-issues from the thread

• (P0) webui sends padding files as "only_files" to the backend
• (P1) backend should ignore padding files passed as "only_files"
• (P1) check / fix sparse file behavior on Windows, esp. if we only need to write at the end. It's reported that it takes up all disk space in this case
• (P2) UX improvement: don't create files at all if we never need to write/read from them
• (P2) UX improvement: consider hiding unwanted files somehow. E.g. qBittorrent used to have ".unwanted" folder, now it stores parts in one ".parts" file.

Current behavior:

When files are unchecked in the Web UI before adding a torrent,

• stub files for them are still created
• unchecked files are still downloaded (this stops when all checked files are downloaded)

Expected behavior:

• stub files are not created
• unchecked files are not downloaded

I assume stub files are created because they start being downloaded, so fixing that should fix file creation too.

Version, OS

rqbit 8.0.0
Windows 11