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Why is there a .dat file in my download folder when the torrent contents don contain such files?

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Why is there a .dat file in my download folder when the torrent contents don contain such files?

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This occurs when you perform selective file downloading and have diskio.use_partfile enabled. You can safely ignore the file, as it will be deleted after the torrent job is removed from the torrent jobs list.