@arago44 said in IF "we" get PURGED?:

I don't mean to intervene, but should I be accessing this website with a VPN all the time? or are you just talking about whenever someone is downloading a torrent?

Your torrent client should be using a VPN, at a minimum.

I've mentioned before: I do all of my access to these sites on throw-away $5/mo Linux systems at Linode.com.... what I download (at EXTREMELY fast rates, I might add), I then copy to my home system... every month or so, I destroy the old system and build a new one (at a new IP!)...

Not everyone is THAT security conscious, nor is everyone sufficiently skilled at Linux to make that work... but the point is, you should (IMHO) NOT be running your torrent client (uploading or downloading) on your home IP address!

Your access to this site is probably less problematic, but I don't segregate that traffic... I browse from the same cloud VM as I upload and download from.

Oh, man! I feel the pain already. I never had that experience with McAfee before, but Malwarebytes was all up in my grill regarding utorrent, lol! So yeah, I had to do those steps described above. Presently, I have AVAST and I definitely had some firewall issues with them in the beginning, but no issues now. Thankfully.

@kima112 said in Torrenting:

So, for some reason, i cant upload anymore!

i downloaded qbit instead and i was wondering if its possible to transfer a torrent that i have uploaded to qbit instead of Utorrent, but i cant find the original .torrent file do i have to remove the torrent from this site? and reupload?

redownload .torrent file of your own torrent from gt.ru and choose your download file location = where you are saving this file on your computer. ((Your file must be unedited, renamed for example).

This would be really useful - so you can have a preview of the content before downloading. Can it move forward please?

@dandylion said in Stalled:

@bi4smooth said in Stalled:

@dandylion said in Stalled:

Hello,

The tracker issues aside, QBittorrent does not behave with our tracker very well because we do not have "Scrape" enabled. I'm going to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what that means, but it was explicitly mentioned in a training document about QBittorrent acting strangely because of it.

Thankfully the fix is easy, if a download is "Stalled", right click it and click "Force Resume". This should resolve the issue :)

Thank you,
DandyLion

The qBitTorrent "scrape" issue only comes into play when you complete a download.

"Scraping" is essentially a re-announce to the tracker that you have the complete torrent and are now a seeder, not a leecher.

In qBitTorrent, there is a simple fix: set your client to force re-check upon completion. It will seed properly AFTER the re-check.

I learned something new, Thank you very much, I will update my training materials and pass that information along :)

To be completely clear - the part in qBitTorrent about the scrape isn't all there is to a scrape...

Read a full description of a scrape here

But where it comes into play with qBitTorrent is that it "scrapes" at the conclusion of the download - and our tracker doesn't support scrapes - so the qBitTorrent client sits there saying to itself "I'm a seeder" while the GTru tracker says "he's a leecher still"

When you set the force-recheck, and it completes, the qBitTorrent sends a fill ANNOUNCE to the tracker, which is accepted and voila! You're a seeder!

@kinkyguy666

Your best bet is to use the helpdesk.

We have staff that specialize in different things and it's the quickest way to get things like this noticed by them.

@joker Thanks, that's too bad. I was excited..

@freddie7 said in why can't i send messages?:

not on the forum, on the site.

I'll have to look for it, but "newbies" have limits on PM messaging. The rule was created some time back because people were creating fake accounts to harass people with PMs.

Maybe someone else can find the actual rule?

@mkpacman71 said in Just joined and need to up my ratio:

@chubbytossbm Also - don't forget to vote on categories for your downloaded torrents. You get points that can be turned in to increase your ratio

LOTS of things you do can earn you Seed Bonus Points (SBP) -- like just SEEDING torrents!.... Plus, don't forget about the First Time Uploader's bonus - 600 SBP can be turned in for 10GB upload credit!