Migration Problem

[evilbart]

Ok so I just wiped my old hard drive so I could put Windows 7 on my new ssd. Anyways I saved the appdata like it says in the uTorrent guide and all of my .torrent files and the data itself were saved on a secondary backup drive so they never got moved, but heres my problem, when I force recheck all of the torrents, only some of the torrents are found and loaded but then almost half say "Stopped *enter number here*%", in fact here is a screen shot. http://i.imgur.com/6SOqD.jpg . I am able to download the rest of the so called "missing files" but its a private tracker this is on and thats no good for ratio. So anyways any help would be much appreciated. If it helps I am using uTorrent 3.1.3 (build 27096).

[jbebad]

Did you only download selected files from within the torrent? Did you delete any part files? Did you move (outside of uTorrent) any of the individual files within a multi-file torrent to another location? So there could be a varitity of reasons for missing files.

The problem I have with ratios is the following:

1. It should be used as a goal that can generally be reached - but not a hard and fast requirement. Your ability to reach a specific ratio depends on others wanting to download the file - there may be no more others. That is why some private sites say you either should reach the goal or seed for a specific period of time (generally a couple of days).

2. If by chance you lose the file, removed the torrent from uTorrent, and have to download it again by reloading the torrent, and you must reach the goal again as if you never reached it in the first place. But in the case where the original goal was 1.5 and lets say you seeded until 3.0. You would still need to the goal of 1.5 again - so for two copies you seeded 4.5 copies.

3. If by chance you lose part of the data and need to reload the torrent so you can get the part you lost. You then perform a force-recheck and start the download for the missing part. The ratio when you start is zero. But the re-check shows you have 99% of the file/set of files. You download the last 1%. Now the ratio that is viewed in uTorrent is based on the mount uploaded v. downloaded. Since you are only downloading 1% of the torrent your ratio climbs very fast. I have one torrent that shows a ratio of 1140.094. Now if you think I uploaded the same data 1140 times - I have some swamp land in Florida that I am willing to sell as beach front property.

The point is the ratio is a guide (or at least should be), to try to make sure all the people who want it can and will get the torrent. So do the best you can. If a private tracker does not understand what happend (oh I have heard that story before - and its just to bad. But rules are rules - bye.) Sign up with a different tracker or only deal with public trackers.

[evilbart]

One other thing that is weird that I forgot to mention was that if I hit "Open Containing Folder" on one of the stopped torrents, it points to where the file and the torrent is stored. You can see here http://i.imgur.com/SVZX3.jpg. So my question is why isn't it figuring that out when I force recheck. And yes on some of the torrents I did only download selected items but not this many lol. I don't know, but if I can't figure this out, that Mozart file is really going to bite me in the ass.