myxomoP Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 I am reformatting my PC and want to be able to begin seeding a torrent I've created without having to remake the torrent and lose all the peers/seeds I've accumulated so far. How is this done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Reload the .torrent (retrieve it from the tracker) and choose the right folder where are your data.http://www.utorrent.com/migration_guide.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 resume.dat stores the peer cache.http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#How_can_I_backup_my_settings.3FBackup your settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Are you sure resume.dat includes a list of peers. Unless you're talking about something which is cleared when you save the resume.dat, because I've not seen it.Given the... thousands of peers you can get from EACH popular torrent over the time it exists in the cache, you'd notice a fluctuation in resume.dat size, again I've not seen it. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=38358 only mentions IPv6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 That doesn't mean it stores IPv6 peers only... It says it stores the peers in IPv6 format. Each peer apparently takes up 18 bytes in that key (probably 16 bytes for the IPv6 address, 2 bytes for the port).resume.dat stores any torrent-specific information, and considering how µTorrent does store a peer cache, it would only make sense that that would be where it goes (and it is where it goes). The peer cache for each torrent gets pruned after a certain amount of time, so it's not like it'll keep adding without bounds. Given that, if you don't have a ton of torrents started simultaneously, of course it won't bloat the resume.dat size.Even if a torrent supposedly has thousands of peers, that's just information from the tracker scrape. Almost no tracker actually sends all several thousand peers in the peers list, so they won't all end up in the cache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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