I cannot use transmission which is the best torrent client because it's banned from one of the trackers I use, so I am forced to use rtorrent.

Normally I am all for command-line programs, however rtorrent ( 0.8.6/0.12.6 ) is simply frustrating. It is not intuitive, imo.

I have 400 MB left on the HD and that's more than enough to dl this 200 MB avi. Rtorrent stops the download, though. It says [CLOSED] near the torrent.

I do ctrl-r and that invokes the local hash check, and after that's done rtorrent simply dies ( wtf? ).

Afterwards, it gives me rtorrent: TrackerManager::send_later() m_control->set() == DownloadInfo::STOPPED.

So that leads me to open rtorrent again, then hit ENTER and /home/meder/file.avi.torrent, down arrow, and ctrl-S.

I am looking for multiple things...

1. How can I tell rtorrent to not worry about disk space? Again, it stops the torrent if my HD only has 400 mb when the torrent I'm dling is 200 mb ( there are no other torrents ).

2. Why does ctrl-R fail hard? Why does it cause rtorrent to crash?

3. If #2 is not solvable, can someone provide an easy way to add a torrent and start it, a more efficient method than typing the torrent name, hitting the down arrow, and ctrl-S?