Option to rename individual files and other renaming improvements.

[Kanjirito]

Unless I'm missing something there currently is no way to rename a individual file or sub-directory in a torrent. You can rename the main file/directory but not the files in the torrent. I propose adding a context menu with a rename button in the "Files" tab that would open a pop-up window (like the one for setting torrent labels or changing location) to change the name.

Some other quality of life changes relating to this I'd like to see:

• A pop-up window when renaming the main file/directory of a torrent. That way you can press cancel to prevent the change without needing to close the details window. (And maybe also a context menu with a rename button for it in addition to the double click)
• A rename button in the context menu in the torrent list view.
• A details button in the context menu in the torrent list view because double clicking a torrent to get to that window is not super intuitive (at least for me)

[johman10]

Hi, sorry for the super late reply. Haven't had a chance to have a proper look at this until now.

I was looking into this a little and it seems like Transmission doesn't really support this in any way. The documentation for the API lives here: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/rpc-spec.md. If you know of a UI that does this or a way to do this, please let me know. Until then I'm closing this issue, but will reopen it if it's possible after all.

Thanks for your suggestion either way! :D

[Kanjirito]

transgui can definitely rename individual files. It seems to do it through torrent-rename-path the same way flood does it for the main file/directory. From what I understand the second argument path can be any file from that torrent but it needs to be a relative path from the "root" of the torrent. So lets say we are downloading a torrent that contains a directory named Music with files Song 1.mp3 and Song 2.mp3. To rename Song 1.mp3 we would make a request like this

{
  "method": "torrent-rename-path",
  "arguments": {
    "ids": 1,
    "path": "Music/Song 1.mp3",
    "name": "New name.mp3"
  }
}

I have confirmed that this does in fact work even for files a couple of directories deep. Should be easy enough to implement.

[ThinkChaos]

I agree this would be a great addition. I unfortunately am not good with UI/frontend so cannot contribute it myself.

transmission-remote-gtk supports it, also via torrent-rename-path: transmission-remote-gtk/transmission-remote-gtk#109