How can other P2p users share what ive downloaded

[loyferns]

Hi guys,

Firstly, keep up the good work..Utorrent is a rockin client

Just a quick question, ive downloaded a file and ive moved it from the default folder to another folder. I dont see any upload activity on that file ?

How can I make a folder that is a shared folder, i tried goin through preferences and tried changing the "Location of Downloaded Files" folder, but cant see any option to specify the shared folder

Thanks,

Loy Ferns

[Ultima]

BitTorrent doesn't have a concept of "shared folders." You share only what you've downloaded, and only if the torrent for the respective data is started.

http://www.utorrent.com/guides.php

[Switeck]

LOTS of active-but-no-peers torrents plus DHT active might be similar to sharing alot of folders full of files. But it would certainly be inefficient.

[Quitch]

But what you can do is use File - Add Torrent, then upload to a public, no registration tracker like http://tracker.prq.to/announce, or just upload the .torrent to one of the trackers with a web interface.

[Honeyfrog]

IMO, the far-and-away best method of sharing a large amount of unrelated stuff (especially tiny stuff) is eMule.

Hmm...that reminds me: The latest version of Azureus has, I hazily recall, a setting one can click while creating torrents to make them compatible with ED2K and other networks. (I have no idea how it implements that...I suppose it generates a .torrent file which also has the characteristics of a ED2K "collection", or uses 9.87mb piece sizes or some such. I never played with it.)

[slipstream]

Honeyfrog,

none of those, such "compatible" .torrents would just embed ed2k-hash keys for all listed files.