blackdiamond Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 What i loved at BitLord was that i could stop a torrent, mark it as SEED and it would just seed, even if it was a x% < 100%.I don't think this client can do this... or i couldn't figgure out how to do it. I used search but could not find any.What do i need this for? I download sometimes huge files that reach a maximum of 20% ratio, so i partial download other files that i don't need and keep them seeding to keep up my ratio.Sorry if this can be done and i could not figgure out how.Have a nice day and thank you for developing this. I'll be spreading the word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 You technically can't be called a seed unless you have 100% of the data. Either way, I don't see why you can't just keep uploading O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdiamond Posted November 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 i want to seed 50MB out of a 5 GB file. I upload those 50MB 10 times so my overall ratio improoves. I don't NEED the file, i just help it along its way.OR another general use: i want to download just one torrent and stop other downloads, but i want to seed the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slayers Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 The easiest way to do this is to double-click the torrent and set the max download rate to something ridiculously low (1 kB/s). You're still downloading but at that rate it hardly counts really. And you will continue to upload normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Then just have µTorrent download a specific file/files (don't allow other files to be downloaded). Then you can upload from there (since µTorrent won't download any additional data beyond the files you told it to download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 Set the files to "Don't Download" and it'll stop downloading (after it finishes receiving the pieces it already requested), but keep uploading at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernaut Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 I also would like such a feature, choosing a torrent should only Seed. It should not preallocate nor download any files that are missing. BitComet has it for instance. The (unconfirmed) bug with "don't download file" along with preallocate does actually preallocates even the "don't" files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 It's not a bug, stop crossposting, read the FAQ.And you can make a torrent seed by just marking all files as "Don't Download". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernaut Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 It's not a bug, stop crossposting, read the FAQ.And you can make a torrent seed by just marking all files as "Don't Download".I didn't mean to "cross-post", I thought this topic would be a feature and that reallocating "Don't Download" files was a bug. But as you pointed out it is intentional working this way so my bad not finding the FAQ where it stated. Sorry for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchi Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Firon,i think this would be very handy as well. especially when u make a torrent, you shouldn't need to have to rehash it as you have already made the torrent so u know its all there and correct. when i make a torrent in BC i just select seed when i have uploaded it, saves the extra hash check. very good option if you put up a 4gig file or so.so i would really like this just seed option too like in BC, its very handy for many different purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 i want to seed 50MB out of a 5 GB file. I upload those 50MB 10 times so my overall ratio improoves. I don't NEED the file, i just help it along its way.OR another general use: i want to download just one torrent and stop other downloads, but i want to seed the restThat would SO fuck with piece distrobution -You're only sending out a certain small range of pieces, straining the other seeders for the pieces you dont have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 churchi, your request has nothing to do with this thread...this thread is about telling a torrent to stop downloading and just seed what's downloaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DartsiniZ Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 When using "Don't download" to leave out some files I think the client should disconnect all seeds when the rest are finished. (µT1.2.2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 We already know about that Dartsiniz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigPu Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I like the idea, but the functionality is already perfectly covered via the "Don't Download" function. For torrents with a ton of files it would be a tad harder to select all the files and stop their downloads compared to a dedicated "Pause Download" button, but I don't think it's worth adding in such a button.JigPu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Why would it be harder though? Ctrl A selects all the files. As does Shift End/Home (depending on where you started) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdiamond Posted December 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 i want to seed 50MB out of a 5 GB file. I upload those 50MB 10 times so my overall ratio improoves. I don't NEED the file' date=' i just help it along its way.OR another general use: i want to download just one torrent and stop other downloads, but i want to seed the rest[/quote']That would SO fuck with piece distrobution -You're only sending out a certain small range of pieces, straining the other seeders for the pieces you dont have.why would it f**k the distribution? i don't get your logic. if i download x% of the torrent and uploading 10 times more i am not helping others to download it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 why would it f**k the distribution? i don't get your logic. if i download x% of the torrent and uploading 10 times more i am not helping others to download it?It fucks with piece distribution by FORCING people to get the pieces that you don't have from others.As chaosblade said:straining the other seeders for the pieces you dont have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigPu Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Why would it be harder though? Ctrl A selects all the files. As does Shift End/Home (depending on where you started)That's why I italicied "tad" I don't think having to do an extra 2 key presses, right click, and left click is exactly hard.JigPu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradpitt Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread. :|Been thinking long time ago about this feature like "don't download, but upload". Now when upgraded to 1.8 noticed that it is implemented as "seeding only" mode in scheduler. But is it available only in scheduler? or I can't find it (as button or as dropdown menu option)?Setting "don't download" for individual files is not an option, because there are files I do not download at all (demo, samples, etc), so if there's a lot of files in the torrent, each time I need to select files individually which ones to download and which ones not to.Thank you for great program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 Scheduler is the only way to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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