Key Torrential Downpour Log Files (Quick Guide)

This page is a quick guide to which Torrential Downpour artifacts matter and what they’re generally used to support. (A longer, document-by-document walkthrough will be published as its own post.)

The usual “must ask for” artifacts

• Datawritten.xml: typically used to support what data was written/assembled during a run, and when.
• downloadstatus.xml: typically used to support download progress and completion status over time.
• details.txt: often used as a human-readable summary of peers, transfers, and session facts.
• torrentinfo.txt: used to support torrent identifiers/metadata relevant to the run.
• netstat.txt: often used to support endpoint/port context and socket-level state during a run.

What to verify, every time

• Timestamps and time zone: do all artifacts agree on time base and chronology?
• Target IP/port consistency: is the same target endpoint used across logs, exports, and narrative?
• Single-source vs multi-source: does the record actually show that the alleged data came from one target peer?
• Verification: is there evidence of hash verification (or other integrity verification) beyond narrative summaries?

If you want help translating the tool artifacts into a focused discovery request list, contact Lucid Truth Technologies using the LTT contact form: Contact.