alextarbox Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 I've created some torrents myself and I've uploaded them, but I'm probably going to have to reload my laptop soon because I'm almost totally out of HDD space and is actually easier than uninstalling one by one...anyways, I cannot figure out how to tell utorrent to begin seeding my torrents instead of downloading...I have the original files and the torrent I created in the original locations, but the only way I can get utorrent to start seeding initially, is to create the torrent and tell it to "Start Seeding" in the options...is there no other way to tell utorrent to start seeding and not download what already exists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Add without default save and point at your existing files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vcw97 Posted February 27, 2011 Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 Hi, I'm relatively new to Utorrent (any torrents actually LOL) & found this thread while browsing for answers. One of my questions might relate here. (And yes, I've been thru the FAQ, beginner's guide & even tried the forum search).As I really want to be a good seeder, my question has 2 parts:For my currently downloading & seeding torrents, once the files have all downloaded & torrent is seeding, can I move the files (music, movies, etc.) from their download location (which is my "Downloads" folder currently) to burn to disk, store on my external drive or whatever - & still leave the torrent to continue seeding?? I am trying to leave them for as LONG as possible - I have some with an upload ratio of over 10 right now; one even over 15! But they cant stay there forever, ya know? At some point I will run out of hard drive space & stuff will have to get filed on my external drive. Also, what is considered a target ratio of seeding to reach?? Obviously I will continue to leave them as long as possible, but would like to know what would be appropriately considerate of others.The 2nd part of my question has to do with former torrents I downloaded. So here's "confession" time - when a friend first turned me on to Utorrent, he did not explain the concept of seeding so I really did not know about it. Installed the program & the first time I double-clicked a torrent file I had, viola! Up pops Utorrent & off it went, downloading away! It was pretty self-explanitory for the basics, so I didn't READ much into it. After those first torrents were completed, I moved them & deleted the torrent from Utorrent, but now that I know what a BAD, BAD leecher I was (go ahead & slap my hand), I would like to correct that somehow, if I can! I recently extracted my files from my old crashed computer & the torrents are still there. SOOOO, is there a way I can load the torrents & SEED them without having to re-download the files?? I'm not even sure I'd be able to FIND the exact folders the stuff is in. I rename folders & file everything meticulously by category, artist, author, genre, etc. Book collections will be spread out in different folders, some things I didn't need would have been deleted. Those I guess are hopeless. But for the things I CAN find that I do have, can I move the folder back to "downloads" & re-load the torrent even if the folder name is different? (or re-direct the torrent to download to the folders' current location?) - will the torrent "recognize" it's associated files in the folder by a different name??? Or am I just screwed & considered a 'bad seed' forever?? (It'll NEVER happen again, I PROMISE!!)Any help or advice here would be GREATLY appreciated! I'm still confused by the terminology & HOW this concept of torrents works, BUT I'm trying to DO it correctly by seeding - that's why I've left this latest batch seeding for WEEKS! Tho I know at some point, my hard drive will need some relief & I'll have to move things to my external. I really do want to get a grasp on it tho so that I can then make some torrents to share MY stuff! Thanks all!Vivian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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