Manually adjusting initial-seeding position marker?

[mike18xx]

So......I'm initially-seeding a large torrent and have a little problem with a laptop drive just getting so darn hot that it seizes right up. Bummer & all that. Good thing all the important stuff is on the server.

When I get going again, I note that, since I've lost the uTorrent settings folder, that initial-seeding wants to begin from the far left (block #0, I presume) again -- because I don't want to layer over any blocks a temporarily-absent peer might already possess but hasn't gotten around to sharing yet.

I'm diddling around in Resume files (originals backed up) with notepad, but don't see what's obvious. How would I shift the current initial-seeding position to farther ahead?

[DreadWingKnight]

You don't have to shift the initial-seeding position manually.

While in initial seeding mode, pieces that are absent have a higher priority than pieces that are present.

[mike18xx]

Yes, but the program is not aware of the fact that *I know* there's a peer with a lot of rare blocks that I'd just as soon not upload a second time because they're (a) temporarily registering as absent, and ( "left-side".

Example: Torrent consists of three 1gig subdirectories; torrent is also a "compilation" of other materials with a certain peer already possessing the first portion. When he showed up on the peer list, my percentage seeded jumped from a small amount to a large amount (and, I assume, the marker adjusted forward to skip over all of his available blocks). When he logged off, a giant "hole" appeared in the indicator bar {well, more of a "hole covered by a wispy picket-fence" to represent blocks he had traded blocks to other peers}, but the seeding marker had passed by that section so I didn't have to worry about uTorrent recovering old ground until it'd made a full sweep to the right.

However, now that I've lost the original resume files, uTorrent has restarted from the left end and wants to fill in the "hole" (which I know will disappear when the other guy shows up again). Basically, I don't want to have to upload a gig's worth of blocks I know he already possesses.

-- Can I manually budge that position or not?

[DreadWingKnight]

No you can't.

The moving of the position has to do with connected peers.

It's ONLY to do with connected peers.

The reason it's restarting from the left is because you've changed who you connected to.

[mike18xx]

In the past, if a peer with untraded blocks dropped out, the hole he left behind wasn't immediately filled in; rather, it was saved until after all other unsent blocks (i.e., all to the right) were seeded first.

All I'm trying to do is jerry-rig that scenerio -- I can't fathom how it can't be possible.