Adding a quick note on the problem user
eyepoke was talking about above.
The hint to what the problem was is in this sentence:
Quote:
uTorrent would not recognise the files, instead it would create a new folder where the files were and begin the download (LET THIS HAPPEN).
I'd say that the problem was in defining the
path to the torrent correctly.
For example you have some files on the
path like so:
Code:
/home/JohnDoe/Videos/MyTorrents/torrentDir01/torrentFile01
/home/JohnDoe/Videos/MyTorrents/torrentDir01/torrentFile02
And you create a torrent of a whole directory
torrentDir01 with all the files in it.
Then you upload the .torrent file and get the version with the passkey back from mma-torrents.com
Then you put that .torrent into your torrent client
And you are supposed to point to the directory with the files so you can start seeding.
Right?
Now the mistake was pointing to the path wrong... pointing towards the wrong directory.
What user
eyepoke did was give path like so:
Code:
/home/JohnDoe/Videos/MyTorrents/torrentDir01/
and it was supposed to be like so:
Code:
/home/JohnDoe/Videos/MyTorrents/
The torrent client is looking for the directory called
torrentDir01/And there is no
torrentDir01/ directory inside of
torrentDir01/ directory itself.
There are only file01 and file02.
So the client would just start downloading the whole torrent.
It doesn't know it is already "inside" of the correct directory.
So you have to point "one level up" so to speak.
If you point at directory called
MyTorrents/ the client will find the directory
torrentDir01/ inside of it.
Then it'll check the files inside of it and start seeding!
ps.
I'm pretty sure I could have explained this better.
But can't be bothered to go editing now...
This is just a comment, not a tutorial on correct path syntax.
So anyway... hopefully it helps someone with the same problem.
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