Need Torrent Creator & Editor, Badly!

[WinstonSmith6079]

Actually, ye olde MakeTorrent v2.1 (which BTW I sure wish some egghead programmer out there would update!) seems to suit all of my needs, except for ONE: I can't seem to create a torrent that contains more than one, single tracker URL!

Fortunately, µTorrent's torrent creating feature will. But unfortunately, I don't know how to share only certain file(s) in a folder without sharing all other files and folders in it, unlike MakeTorrent v2.1 which allows you to do so very easily. (Yes, I know there's a "Skip Files:" field in which stuff can be typed in, but I don't know the syntax, see, most particularly for making it skip files inside of sub-folders, or even entire sub-folders--maybe knowing just that will solve my problem.) Damn!

Hmm, maybe I can work around that by creating the torrent with Make Torrent v2.1, with only the files/folders that I want to share and none of whatever else might be in there, even with a single tracker URL, and then...but, no! µTorrent can only CREATE torrents and not EDIT them! Damn!

So maybe I can create the torrent with µTorrent with all tracker URLs to my heart's content, but also will ALL files/folders be hashed into that torrent. So hey! How about edit that torrent with Make Torrent v2.1 to take those extra files and sub-folders out? But, NO! I can't do that much with Make Torrent! Damn, damn, DAMNIT! :mad:

Even furthermore, I've taken a bit more time even after all that above to Google around looking for a proper torrent creator AND editor with which to replace Make Torrent and found exactly nothing worthwhile at all! Wow! There's like a million-kajillion torrents out there, but no one cares to make such a thing!? ??? Oh, man! :mad:

Well I've sure got a problem here! HELP! Please, please help, help, HELP ME!

[DreadWingKnight]

http://wiki.depthstrike.com/index.php/EAD:Utilities:TorrentBuild for maker maybe?

[WinstonSmith6079]

Thanks! Not a perfect, end-all solution, but it did serve the vast majority of my purpose in this case.

Strangely, on that page you linked me to, the latest build of that program was not available, the file gone. I Googled for the filename, but that yielded no results. So I went with the Sept. 16th, 2009 build.

The only thing that lacked in this particular case was that the optional Description to be saved into a torrent is limited to a single line of text only, where Make Torrent allows carriage-returns, AND it wouldn't let me name the torrent, meaning the torrent's name (the "label"?), not the filename of the torrent, I mean.

I tried editing it in Make Torrent to compensate, but doing so erased all but one of the tracker URLs (I made the torrent with around a dozen of them with the program you linked to).

It worked (except for the two points above), because it, like, automatically did not include the sub-folder or any of the files in it. Good thing for this torrent that I actually didn't want the sub-folder in it. Dunno what the program will do if I need one or more certain files in one or more sub-folders in a different torrent, though.

But hey! At least I got this one done at ~90% to perfection: multiple tracker URLs, and only the files that I wanted to share.

Thanks, man!

I still would like to do a better job in the future, though. Maybe someone could, like, make a better Make Torrent that does what it does already AND allows multiple tracker URLs to be added...? OR maybe µTorrent's torrent creator can be improved to also EDIT torrents, and basically do all that Make Torrent does but yet also with multiple tracker URLs like it already does. Hmm, what do you think of such a thing in µTorrent? hehehehe

[DreadWingKnight]

Updated the link for the Sept 19th build.

[WinstonSmith6079]

Ah, thanks man!

I replaced the previous build with that one.

And I appreciate your help! Much better than that other forum where I posted the exact same post as here! I mean caught hell just for that! Woof!

[Edited: URL removed by poster as destination thread has been deleted (and that's no bad thing, really hehehe)]

Didn't even provide an explanation for the "warning", even when I explicitly asked the mod who warned me! Not exactly typical of forums! But later I did get an "explanation"...not in a PM--as mods most everywhere normally do--but instead embedded into my post. Wow! Crazy!

As you can see, it says "learn or leave". I didn't really see any need to learn a new and special set of "rules" for just that forum, already long ago having "learned" how forums everywhere else more or less normally work--and they don't work like that! That's for sure! So I chose to leave, and requested for my forum account there to be deleted.

So I sent a second PM to two mods, one of which was the one that just said nothing but "WARN!", that said:

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Hello, sorry to bother you, but you seem you seem to be a mod here.

I don't see any control or button or such here by which I can delete my own forum account here. Would you please be so kind as to delete it?

Honestly, I've not had this sort of problem on other forums, and other forums have not had such a problem with me. So I think that it would be best for all parties concerned if I were to not post here again. Do you disagree?

The "warning" that I received said--not in a PM, but embedded into my post--that I should "learn or leave". I really don't see a need to learn a special set of rules for this particular forum, when I've already long ago "learned" how forums typically work. So I'll take that advice given to me and leave.

Please delete my forum account here. You won't have to warn me a second time, there will be no further trouble from me.

Thanks in advance.

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Ya know, I must confess that I was half expecting that the deletion of my forum account there would not actually get done. But they actually did it! Heh, at least they could properly fulfil ONE user-request! hehehehe

I had already been sharing files at Demonoid for a little while, and everyone seemed to love my work there. And when some asked for help, I spoke to them like a normal person to another normal person in a completely normal way.

But wow! is that Demonoid Forum just a whole different ball-game, to say the least LOLOLOLOLOLOL LMAO!

Heh, wow! hehehehe

Oh, now the torrent I was making can be a single file. I was going to upload it to Demonoid, which meant that I would have to stuff an extra junk .TXT into it that nobody actually downloads! Well now I can throw that out as I won't be putting this torrent there after all. hehehehe

Yep! µTorrent forum (and a lotta other forums) > Demonoid forum hehehehe Much better! Much more helpful and not all n00by-like hehehe

You rule, man! hehehehe

[FrankEinstein]

I don't know were to put this so I try here. If wrong please tell me the correct place

I downloaded some torrent and do not like file names on movies so I want to move all files to a external drive and rename the files. I deleted the torrent at utorrent and try to made a new torrent. I read a tutorial on making torrents but it did not work. There is some easy way to make new torrents?

thanks and best regards from alvaro

[ciaobaby]

Press Ctrl+N then follow the steps.

[ktetch]

Actually, ye olde MakeTorrent v2.1 (which BTW I sure wish some egghead programmer out there would update!) seems to suit all of my needs, except for ONE: I can't seem to create a torrent that contains more than one, single tracker URL!

Well I've sure got a problem here! HELP! Please, please help, help, HELP ME!

Yes, your problem is a weird belief that you need more than one tracker. Except in very special circumstances, you don't. Adding more trackers just harms the trackers by adding load while giving no benefit.

Edited to add:

I blame ciaobaby for bumping this old thread to the top!

[ciaobaby]

I blame ciaobaby for bumping this old thread to the top

Actually if you look carefully, there is a post BEFORE mine that resurrected this long dead thread.

[WinstonSmith6079]

Yes, your problem is a weird belief that you need more than one tracker. Except in very special circumstances, you don't. Adding more trackers just harms the trackers by adding load while giving no benefit.

Edited to add:

I blame ciaobaby for bumping this old thread to the top!

Yeah I don't know much more than the basics of torrent-networking, .TORRENT files, et al. But of course knowing all there is to know about torrents and such is plainly not the same as knowing all there is about computers, or even about the Inet, uh DUUUH.

C'mon, seriously, get real! NO ONE knows it all, mmkay. Not even such as Bill Gates or comparable big computer person can know everything--there's obviously way too much for any one person to, heh, know it all! But, ya know, if you know everything about, say in this case torrents and stuff, then there's nothing else to know, and that's the whole of Cyberspace, isn't it. Oh yes, of course it is--all of that other stuff doesn't actually exist, even when you're there using it! Yaah, what else is new now!

Furthermore, it's not like well-written user-friendly docs are very common at all for this program or that system all over the Inet, but of course how is it possible that anyone could notice such a thing. And even more than that, if there were (and even including more programs with more "intuitive" UIs), well that would be a LOT of manual reading, as in waaay excess! One might have to spend all the time slogging through a kajillion even well-written manuals for just maybe like half or less of all the programs/systems one might use! I have an idea that might help with that, but I don't think anyone could actually do it--it would be too "simple" and strightforward, because, for starters, people would not be able to distinguish between "(overly-)simple" and simplification, with consolidation as a related aspect. Ah, well! I gotta get by anyway, now won't I. Asswipes! No, no, haha, just kidding, just kidding! hehehehehe

Anyway, thanks for the help, Mr., but IS an old thread, and I don't really use the torrent system so much these days like I used to. In fact even now, the most of my using it is by force of, heh, technical considerations (yeah, heh, more like technical difficulties)--ya know, a work-around that I gotta do to get more or less crap when I mainly don't have to do any of that to get better-than-crap with a proper computer even if I gotta pay a few bucks for it hehehehe

Smarter than the av-er-age bear! Boo-Boo. ... AND if you see something labeled "Help" ..... try clicking it because it probably will!

Wahaha LOL awesome! hehehehe Looks like someone's not been around the Inet very much yet, bwahahaha!

Well, well, chowbaby: One day when you grow up, you'll get the great joy and pleasure of going to the DMV--you might find that dealing with THAT is a much easier, more efficient, not to mention much more helpful and pleasant and soooo much less "bureaucratic" than trying to get help on the Inet. And that's just sickening, and just thus totally suitable for you LOL

Yeah, well, I'm just waiting for the also-ran status quo to tell me all about how the big, mean Y2K Bug is gonna get me, and the whole world too! Yeah, please tell me even more about that, if it pleases you even more LMFAO

[ciaobaby]

Wahaha LOL awesome! hehehehe Looks like someone's not been around the Inet very much yet, bwahahaha!

Many of you do seem to make some very silly assumptions, but if you consider being "on-line" since the early 1990's and running a couple of bulletin Boards on UUNet as "not very much" you are probably right.

pleasure of going to the DMV

You even got the continent wrong, nevermind the country.

[WinstonSmith6079]

Many of you do seem to make some very silly assumptions, but if you consider being "on-line" since the early 1990's and running a couple of bulletin Boards on UUNet as "not very much" you are probably right.

Oh. Ooo, that sounds ominous hehe

You even got the continent wrong, nevermind the country.

Oh.

Well that sounds heavy hehehe

[ktetch]

I blame ciaobaby for bumping this old thread to the top

Actually if you look carefully, there is a post BEFORE mine that resurrected this long dead thread.

Yeah, but I'm blaming you just because!

C'mon, seriously, get real!  NO ONE knows it all, mmkay.  Not even such as Bill Gates or comparable big computer person can know everything

Bill gates, 'big computer person', MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Thanks, I needed a good laugh. BillyG might have done some coding 35 years ago, but not that much, and mostly marketing and management stuff.

But thanks for the entertainment, winston, cheered me up after being bored senseless hearing about the rebuild of a CBS datacenter today. And if you think a DMV line is annoying, try filing hazmat exemptions and risk-assessment analysis reports with OSHA. The DMV is measured in hours, not days (or for that matter the weeks with the UK IPO)