tomm123 Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Hi guys,I'm looking for some help with regards to seeding torrents which I have already downloaded. For some reason, whenever I go to add a "new" torrent which is already downloaded and point it to the folder where the files (just the files and nothing else) are located, uTorrent won't "check" the files and thus start the torrent. It simply tries to start downloading it again. I've tried all sorts to get this sorted but nothing's helping, including uninstalling uTorrent and installing again.Please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Have the files been changed in any way?ie: re-tagging, renamed (and back to the original) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomm123 Posted September 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Thanks for the reply. Nope, nothing has changed at all apart from, in some cases, the download location. But even in cases where the files have remained in exactly the same place where they were downloaded, when I try to seed it by opening a "new" torrent file in uTorrent, it doesn't like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Are you running any defragmenting operations on the download drive or on the drive the files were moved to/from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomm123 Posted September 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Nope, all the drives work fine (done many HDD tests on both) - I honestly have no idea what could be causing this problem! I tried using BitComet before and the same thing happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I'm sure they are.However the question was, are you DEFRAGMENTING the drives that the files are stored on. Scheduled runs in the case of a Windows Vista or a Windows 7 OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomm123 Posted September 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 I've checked and checked again, there's absolutely no defrag'ing going on at all. This happens at all hours of the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomm123 Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Bump. Can nobody help me with this? I've just tried, again, completely uninstalling and reinstalling uTorrent and the same problem still persists! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 This would appear to be something on your machine rather than a uTorrent specific problem, otherwise there would most likely be a flood of complaints about it.I would look at any anti-virus or anti-spyware software or something that may be doing "file integrity" scans and exclude your download folders/drives from the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingtreasure Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 It's not something on his machine I don't think, I've changed NOTHING at all, mine's the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Hmm?I've only ever had that occur twice in the past two or three years, both after an overnight Windows update forced a reboot, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Ok, as a programmer and therefore being anally retentive over what appears to be a possible bug, I've just tested this with two completed downloads,Sequence:Stopped both Moved both from download location, (internal SATA drive) discarding label prefix directory onto new location (external USB) using Windows Explorer.Made copies of both.Reset download location in UIForce re-checkOne triggers an alert of "File ... already exists. Overwrite? Response: YesCheck Ok to 100% completed. (.m4v & .txt files)The other triggered no overwrite alert and re-checked to 0% completed. Files are intact and do work Ok (.mkv, .smil, .srt & .txt). I am assuming that had I restarted the torrent, the files would have been overwritten and set with .!ut (will test that hypothesis)Client Version 3.21.27972 32bit Windows 7 Ultimate - Retail (genuine) no cracks, no mods, (6.1.7601 SP1).I'll test more to see if I can recreate the exact condition if/as time permits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Ok!The difference is:The one that failed to re-check had been renamed in the GUI after loading and was using the renamed directory, whereas the one that transferred successfully was using the directory name from the original torrent load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utnu Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Hello,Fist of all sorry for my weak english.I've got the same problem since I've updated to 3.20 version build 27886.I organize downloaded torrents in folders with this method. · Delete from utorrent downloaded torrent. · move torrent and its corresponding files into target folder. · add moved torrent in utorrent with new path omitting the checking test.With mentioned version is impossible to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Definitely a issue if the Torrent has been renamed in the GUI or the add torrent dialogue, ran more tests with renamed downloads and as originally downloadedIn all cases the renamed torrent fails to recheck as complete or even partial, even when the directory name matches the torrent load name, Renaming the .torrent file before loading also fails to recheck as complete.This is definitely a change from pre 3.2.x versions as I have never encountered this on reloading completed torrent regardless of changes in location or the torrent name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elusiana Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Hello,I am a newb also, and i am having the same issue. I can't seem to reseed the files i already downloaded even though i have done it successfully in the past. I clicked on "Add Torrent" - browsed to the torrent folder, choose a torrent (did not change the name). Another box pops up with two text box: "Save in" and "Name". The "Save in" text box - i browse to the folder that contain the files (i don't see a list of files even though there are there), I then clicked "OK". I right click to do a "Forced re-check" but it doesn't do anything. This is the way i have done it in the past and have always worked.I downloaded the new version of the app and since then reseeding hasn't worked. Is there a different way to do this? If I right click and open "Open Container Folder" for the torrent i am trying to reseed, it just points to a random folder after i do the above steps.Any advice would be greatly appreciated.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 Can't recreate your problem on 3.2.1.28012 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 by following your steps.Only by changing the name of the file and the torrent can I make it fail to recheck the download to complete. Tried with a single file and a directory with files in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elusiana Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 Thank you for taking the time to look at the issue. I was able to resolve it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetableblood Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I've been experiencing a similar problem. I had a half finished torrent from another client (Transmission-Qt) that I had started to download some time ago. I tried to resume the download with Transmission but since the directory of the folder has changed I can't get Transmission to recognize it.I tried using uTorrent because I figured the "Force Re-Check" option would work as it has in the past but I can't even use it on the torrent in question. In fact, I can't use it at all on any torrent. The download I am trying to resume just starts over from the beginning without recognizing the data I already have. Nothing has changed other than the location of the folder. In the image you can see that in the right-click menu the "Force Re-Check" option is faded and unusable. Any idea on how to get this feature back?EDIT: Fixed. I moved the data I had back to the original location and set the download location there. uTorrent recognized the data and allowed me to force a re-check. Not sure why I couldn't get it to work in the other location but this works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 The job has to be stopped before rechecking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_shred Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 I have a similar problem, can anyone advise?I have been downloading two large torrents, 85gb and 134gb. Both are downloading into around 20 folders each, and I set some folders as 'high priority' so they downloaded first. When some of the folders were complete, I added 'COMPLETE' to the folder name. Of course, when I went back to uTorrent, the torrents had stopped, obviously because some of the folder names had changed. Realising my mistake, I went back and changed the folder names back to their original names. To re-start the torrent, I deleted it from the uTorrent list, and opened the original torrent file again, which has worked for me in the past. The torrents re-started, but from zero, when I was probably about halfway through over 200gb of downloads, and uTorrent is not finding the files even in the folders where I did not change then change back the folder names. Any ideas anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 When some of the folders were complete, I added 'COMPLETE' to the folder nameMarking things as incomplete is what Preferences -> [] General "Append.!ut to inclomplete files is there for.And are you adding the .torrent back in as "Stopped" then forcing a recheck before starting the job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_shred Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Ciaobaby: Thanks very much for the reply. I don't know about adding the torrent back in as 'stopped', I simply added it back in the same way I started it the first time. However, I did then stop it, and force a re-check, which after 12 or so hours is still at 0.0% for both torrents. How would I add the torrent back in as 'stopped'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Preferences -> UI Settings -> check [] "Don't start the download automatically" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_shred Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 So, I removed the torrents from the list, changed the settings, added the torrents back in as stopped, re-checked, and the check found nothing. I re-started the torrents, and not only did the re-check find nothing, the torrents are going at a snail's pace, about 0.5kbs, whereas before they were going at 50 to 200kbs. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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