Constant re-downloading instead of seeding!

[vanman 0]

How frustrating in that my ratio has always been over 1.0 and now it seems over 300 GB of data has been redownloaded instead of seeding files over the last few months. I know how to seed so don't need instructions, but why does this happen? I have a Synology NAS which is seemingly fine, but obviously when you change file names you will lose the path to that seed so it will no longer work. I've pretty much been unable to reseed hundreds of gigs of my upload files as it more often just ends up checking for a while and then unbeknownst to me after a long while of checking, will end up redownloading the whole file. So end up just giving away hundreds of gigs of ratio with no recourse.

Wouldnt it be nice like with any ordinary commercial enterprise like google or apple if you redownload something you've bought you don't have to pay for it again. Seems you're out of luck here. I will have to just block any and all potential DLs now when I figure out how to do while keeping uploading avail. Anyone have this kind of issue before and can you explain how this might happen? Some files when downloaded through Transmission end up seeding ok, but then I've noticed often they'll eventually get an error saying no file exists.... so wtf? All while any new uploads seem to work fine indefinitely. Can't figure out what is going on.

[A Former User]

Welp... i'm trying to understand why you are so mad that everything is working as expected. You are aware that renaming files/directories will lead to inexistent paths.

Either you're indiscriminately renaming stuff like a psychopath or there's something misconfigured with your NAS, but I think it's the first option.

You should stick to a single torrent client if you download from multiple devices and check if your server is available 24h or if there's any kind of operation happening that could lead to its unavailability.

Not only that but you could also swtich to a torrent client that will stop torrents with missing files instead of redownloading them. qBittorrent is a good option, if you rename stuff directly using the operating system, or for some other reason the file or entire path become unavailable, the torrent will stop and you'll receive an error warning within the app.

Additionally, if you need to move files or folders from one directory to another you should always do it using the torrent client instead of using the operating system file explorer. This is important regardless of running a NAS or offline storage, always manage your torrent data using the torrent client.

Additionally, if you use multiple devices, don't ever try to have more than one client seeding the same torrents if the torrent app data is stored offline.

You can install a portable version of the torrent client within the NAT as well, so whenever you rename something using the client it won't lead to stuff becoming unavailable in other devices.