I want to seed some files but idk how to make a torrent, every time I try something breaks, how do I do it

  • Destide
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    924 days ago

    Most clients have a create torrent function, what is breaking?

    • sleepybisexual
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      124 days ago

      First one, it eventually stopped seeding after I copied the folder being seeded. The second one I could not get a .torrent file. Both in the transmission client

      • @YukiA
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        224 days ago

        It works fine using qbittorrent, at least, for me.

        • sleepybisexual
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          124 days ago

          Uhh, so basically I have a list of like 100 trackers being used, I have sub 1kb/s and its not even consistent

          • @[email protected]
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            20 days ago

            What are you trying to do. Please could you list the steps from beginning to end. Try to make as little assumptions about our knowledge of your problem as possible. If it makes it easier, make a video or a series of screenshots.

            We can’t sit beside you and see what’s happening.

            Anti Commercial-AI license

            • sleepybisexual
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              120 days ago

              So I downloaded several romsets. Compressed into .zip and all stored in a single, uncompressed folder.

              I used a random list of 100 ish trackers, most of which were broken. It was a random list https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist I used the “all” section. Placed them in tracker slot. No web seeds

              I copied the contents of what I was seeding and extracted a copy of one of the zips.

              The torrent broke about a minute after

              I don’t think I can upload media to beehaw

              • @[email protected]
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                120 days ago

                So I downloaded several romsets. Compressed into .zip and all stored in a single, uncompressed folder.

                Downloaded using torrents or directly?

                I copied the contents of what I was seeding and extracted a copy of one of the zips.

                How did you do this?

                The torrent broke about a minute after

                What specifically do you mean by “broke”? Did you get a popup with an error message? Did your application crash? Did the torrent have a new icon in the application?

                I don’t think I can upload media to beehaw

                Use peertube or streamable for video, and imgur for pictures. With pictures you can black out any information you deem private.

                Anti Commercial-AI license

                • sleepybisexual
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                  120 days ago

                  The zips were all direct download.

                  I copied one zip using the copy function in thunar (I think)

                  Extracted it elsewhere

                  It just stopped uploading. Nothing happened to client

            • sleepybisexual
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              120 days ago

              Its OK though. No longer have any need to seed, pthe people have their own, likely better backups