Very Annoying
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If a file contains several parts and some of those parts are not wanted, it is easy enough to mark those portions Do Not Download. HOWEVER….
Even though mTorrent says I am seeding all the sections I have successfully downloaded, This site claims the torrent is still an active download, apparently because it detects less than 100% of the announced torrent size has arrived, and does not care that I am seeding all the parts I wanted and leeched successfully.
That means when I look to find out what my current activity level is, it says I am leeching X number of torrents that I am not, in fact, actively downloading but am happily seeding to the extent I have the content available to share back in a responsible manner.
So long as this discrepancy continues and a file is marked as being actively downloaded when it is not being downloaded at all, the only solution seems to be to mark the entire torrent STOPped, and then Update Tracker so gaytorrent.ru stops claiming I'm hogging too many download options at the same time.
That work around means that I am NOT seeding files that someone else may want and which I could be seeding in order to increase the possible download rate for others. Unfortunately, so long as I may be barred from leeching anything else because-- as happens from time to time-- I am attempting to abuse my d/l ratio, that means on those files where I already have all I want from the available selection of included content, I am not able to be a responsible citizen in regard to those particular torrents.
Sure wish there were a way to change that.
But then, I also wish that mTorrent would not d/l files marked SKIP and would not take a 100% complete torrent and after a Force Recheck, decide that I'm missing 0.1% or so of files previously completed (and played successfully). But that is the client's problem, and mine. The main thrust of this complaint has to do with the way gaytorrent.ru tracks downloads, and the unfortunate consequences of getting it wrong.
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I'm afraid that is the way on all torrent sites I've used. As long as you haven't downloaded 100% you will always be a downloader for that file.
Perhaps you could just seed the incomplete torrents when you have space
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That is inherent to the bittorrent protocol. The client announces to the tracker how much it has left to download from the complete file size and if a peer chooses not to get all, he's always left a part.
There is no information communicated to the tracker which of the files were completed or chosen to be downloaded (only).
Then seeds can be only peers who got all files, so a tracker will put those having completed the download of some files in the only other group of peers, i.e. downloading peers.
I've seen somewhere that there is (was) a protocol extension proposal to address that, but don't know any tracker (or client) having implement it.
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It is perhaps worth mentioning that if you are listed as a downloader because you haven't downloaded the full torrent you still get upload credit for any data you do upload