The tracker says "working" but is it really?
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I find uploading stuff here to be incredibly frustrating, so forgive my tone. I've previously uploaded three times, and each time I spend a lot of time hair-pulling, despite reading, and re-reading, and then again re-reading, the forum guides and any other posts I can find; I do everything step-by-step while following along the guide. But then it doesn't work, and I start trying different things I've read here. Sometimes I delete everything and start over again. Eventually the uploads seem to take, but by then I have no idea what it was I did to make it work and so I can't replicate the process.
That said, I'm now trying to upload a fourth film. I create the torrent fine; nor is there a problem with uploading it to Gaytorrent.ru and creating the page; all the frustration starts after I save the torrent. I do everything recommended in the forum: stopping and setting the download location, force re-checking (when I can), etc. And yes, I make sure it's the torrent I download from the Gaytorrent.ru, not the one originally created by uTorrent.
Today, after an hour of "Aaaargh!", uTorrent says the tracker is "working" but also says it's still trying to find peers. Force checking seems to do no good, and when I look at the torrent from the website it still says that it isn't visible (yes, I updated the page).
If uTorrent says the tracker is working, does that mean I'm home free? Am I just impatient or something? Or is there something I don't know about the way Gaytorrent.ru works?
I'm trying hard to be a good citizen on this website, I really am, and I have a lot of good stuff not on the site, but this uploading torrent thing has me extremely frustrated and I'm not sure I want to try uploading again. I'm not one of those folks who tries something once and then gives up, or wants others to do stuff them; I just want to be able to upload stuff without going apeshit.
To reprise: Aaaargh!
Thanks.
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ben, from your stats you seem to be a good member in my eyes.
You perhaps are being a little impatient, gt.ru doesn't update quite as often as some other sites I use.
You've already worked out that the first picture below means GT tracker hasn't caught up with you.
As soon as the second picture appears, you are seeding. I would ignore any figures uTorrent gives you - too many times I haven't been able to match what it says with what a site tracker says.
Just make sure your torrent is 'visible' and let things happen. Once it's on the tracker and showing, you just have to sit back and wait for people to find it. Perhaps watch a movie while you wait ;D
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I got great advice from NMD, which really helped. I think part of it was that I was confused by the Guide; the other was that the film's file had vanished (I don't recall deleting it) but I got that fixed up and everything seems okely-dokely.
If you haven't seen the movie, you ought; it's pretty wild.
Good advice, but alas - a couple of friends were here at the time. I'da invited them to join in, but they unfortunately don't sail the same ship… damn.
