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In Transmission, if you right-click on a paused torrent, you will get a menu. One option is "Start" and the one below that is "Start Now".

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Neither of these options have any tooltips associated with them, nor is there any information on the official webpage.

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    I believe if you have multiple things downloading and you click start it'll put it in the queue until a download spot opens up. If you start now it starts it even if all download spots are currently downloading. Just a guess, but makes sense
    – ElefantPhace
    Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 15:20
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    @Tim. He's talking about a torrent already opened in Transmission.
    – ElefantPhace
    Commented Aug 2, 2014 at 15:56

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I believe if you have multiple things downloading and you click start it'll put it in the queue until a download spot opens up. If you start now it starts it even if all download spots are currently downloading. Just a guess, but makes sense

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    sorry, I can't mark this as accepted w/o a cite
    – user307382
    Commented Sep 6, 2014 at 18:45
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    As you've already found there is no official documentation on this. I can only tell you this from personal experience having used Transmission for I can't even tell you how long
    – ElefantPhace
    Commented Sep 6, 2014 at 19:06
  • hmm. "Start" and "Start Now" both seem to cause a torrent to start downloading, regardless of how many active downloads are set (in my case 2) as I now have more than 2
    – Tom
    Commented Feb 26, 2017 at 18:08
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    Closest reference looks this "Resume" and "Resume now" bug tickets. Maybe this one too. @TomH maybe on Transmission Preferences, Download queue, Maximum active downloads you have a number greater than 2.
    – Pablo Bianchi
    Commented May 26, 2017 at 1:46
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    looking at the source code ( github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/… ), tr_torrentStartNow(tor) calls torrentStart(tor, bypass_queue=true) whereas normally they're started via torrentStart(tor, bypass_queue=false), so the hypothesis suggested here seems to be the case (assuming the code works as designed). A normal "start" would just queue the torrent; but "start now" (i.e., bypass_queue=true) should start it immediately instead of waiting for a spot from another torrent going idle.
    – michael
    Commented Feb 25, 2022 at 0:42
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The first answer is correct, but to add, "Start Now" in transmission corresponds to "Force Start" on other torrent clients. and if the first answer did not explain it well here is an example borrowed from

quora

1st scenario Suppose I'm downloading 5 things in queues..
1. ABC downloading
2. BCD Queued
3. ....
4. ....
5. ....

Now I want first two things downloaded once so what'll do is.. Right click on 2nd download and select "Force start". By choosing "Force Download" the download will start immediately even if it is in queue..

Now 2nd scenario.. 1. ABC downloading
2. BCD Force-downloading
3. ....
4. ....
5. ....

Now, again right clicking on 2nd download choosing the option "start" will again put my download in "queue"...

Sometimes it starts on its own when the 1st download is getting low speed, the application will start 2nd download simultaneously just to increase the downloading speed.

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