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      Fester79 last edited by

      Hello,

      I'm using uTorrent 3.3.2 to seed this torrent.

      I uploaded my first torrent using QTM. At the end of the process, uTorrent gave me a popup that said, "Unable to download torrents - Bencoding, invalid torrent file!" I clicked OK.

      Next, I downloaded the torrent file under "My Torrents".

      At this point, I'm guessing that I need to upload the torrent manually using uTorrent. Can someone help me with this part of the process?

      Also, the torrent hasn't been approved yet, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to wait until it is approved to begin the utorrent upload process. Can someone answer that for me?

      Thanks.

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        Popper Global Moderator last edited by

        You need to upload the torrent's data files and not wait for approval. All uploads go live now immediately without approval, except for a few uploaders with bad history (and a few glitch through when changing the default).

        The trick is if you load the re-downloaded .torrent file into your µTorrent, to let µTorrent find the data file(s) to share.

        There are different ways to do that:
        a) pointing the download to the directory with the data file
        b) having the data file in µTorrent's default download directory BEFORE you add the torrent
        c) having the data file in the same directory than the .torrent file when you open it with µTorrent

        Here way a):

        1. Stop the torrent (do NOT remove)
        2. Click with the right mouse button on the torrent in µTorrent/BitTorrent's list and select "Advanced" > "Set Download Location…" > navigate to the to the folder which contains the file, respectively folder, from which the torrent has been created, confirm with "Select folder".
        3. Right mouse button click on the torrent in µTorrent's list and select "Force re-check". The torrent should check to 100% and µTorrent displaying "Finished" instead of "Stopped" in the status column.
        4. Restart the torrent, it shall go to "Seeding" or at least to "Queued seeding"

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          cannonmc last edited by

          I'm thinking there may be some confusion here. On another site there was a discussion about that error and I think it came down to the version of uTorrent. It didn't like torrent files made by other programs, from memory.

          Has your torrent started seeding? You can tell if the torrent page here says visible.

          I think the solution on the other site was for those with the wrong version of uTorrent to make their torrent files using MakeTorrent.

          You would then have to use the manual upload but it is really quite easy if you follow the instructions.

          PS Once you get your torrent going, don't forget to claim your 600 bonus points 🙂

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            Priest last edited by

            I am wondering about your approved comment.

            Do you mean the torrent isn't visible? Which is different than approved. The torrent will only become visible once the system sees there is a seeder for the torrent.

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              cannonmc last edited by

              I have a feeling that this is the problem. His version of uTorrent doesn't like the torrent as uploaded (and downloaded) so it will never be seeded and become visible

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                Fester79 last edited by

                OK,

                I think it should be active and seeded. It's showing as visible, so hopefully I did everything right. It shows the tracker as working as well.

                Just out of curiosity, what version of utorrent are you using?

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                  cannonmc last edited by

                  I use 3.0 - I stopped upgrading when people were reporting problems with later versions. I'm a great one for 'if it ain't broke….'

                  If things are going OK, did you claim your 600 bonus points (see banner on Search page)

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                    Popper Global Moderator last edited by

                    Yes, everything fine. Already 8 seeds.

                    I'm still using µTorrent 2.2.1 latest stable built. I use as well qBittorrent. On another PC I run µTorrent the latest stable version 3.4.30 currently, mainly for support.

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                      Fester79 last edited by

                      @cannonmc:

                      If things are going OK, did you claim your 600 bonus points (see banner on Search page)

                      Yep, I just submitted the request now. It had to be seeded for 24 hours, so I was waiting for that.

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                        Fester79 last edited by

                        I submitted the request to "Junior" via PM. Was that the correct person to message about the bonus?

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                          cannonmc last edited by

                          Yes, the PM link on the First time page. I'm not sure how long it takes. Probably depends how much other stuff junior has to deal with 🙂

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                            junior last edited by

                            I let request set in my inbox for at least a day, which give me time to deal with dupes.   Then I usually get to them after 24 hours. They will get two notices about the points when it process them.

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