Dead torrents forum?

RMister

I would like to improve my seed bonus by taking advantage of the new seed bonus thank you feature.
I believe it would benefit everyone if we had a forum specifically for dead torrents, if a new user is interested in torrents that are no longer being seeded they can make a request. I would happily re-share dead torrents in exchange for a seeding bonus.

Popper

If a torrent is missing, we have the Requests part of the forum to ask for them.

If a torrent still listed is not seed, there is a button "Request Re-Seed" at the bottom of the description.

It will send a re-seed request Private Message to more than 100 last completed downloader.
(therefore use it with care, only once, else you risk to be reported as spammer)

As long as the torrent is still listed (last activity < 7 days), you shouldn't post it again. It will be a duplicate. Tow choices:

1/ either join it re-seeding, especially if there are leecher, it will assure you good upload

2/ or wait until it is de-listed and you can post it as a "new".

Request Reseed.JPG

raphjd

I always encourage people to upload torrents that are no longer on the site due to natural torrent death.

This way they get the upload credit and now they also get the thank you credits.

SpartanHero

I'm having a really hard time uploading I use uTorrent to make the torrent and then I've used both QTM and the manual method to upload my torrents. Then, every time I look at the torrent, it says "dead". I then download it myself and it doesn't download because I'm the only one who has it and still says dead. PLEASE help someone

junior

@SpartanHero:

I'm having a really hard time uploading I use uTorrent to make the torrent and then I've used both QTM and the manual method to upload my torrents. Then, every time I look at the torrent, it says "dead". I then download it myself and it doesn't download because I'm the only one who has it and still says dead. PLEASE help someone

Make sure yo are downloading the torrent file and not the movie file.

SpartanHero

@junior:

@SpartanHero:

I'm having a really hard time uploading I use uTorrent to make the torrent and then I've used both QTM and the manual method to upload my torrents. Then, every time I look at the torrent, it says "dead". I then download it myself and it doesn't download because I'm the only one who has it and still says dead. PLEASE help someone

Make sure yo are downloading the torrent file and not the movie file.

I go to the page where you would normally download the torrent, so I am definitely downloading the torrent. Any other suggestions?

Popper

There are two steps:

1st: You go to the page an click the "Download" button to get the small .torrent file. This is the only file you need to download, the "Torrent"

2nd: You "open" or load that .torrent file in your torrent client programme, µTorrent in your case, to download the data (movie) file.

At this moment a window should pop-up to ask where to store the data file(s). Here you have to click ". . ." in µTorrent and navigate to the movie file. µTorrent will then check the movie file being complete and identical to the file described in the torrent and start seeding i/o of downloading.

Depending on you browser, it will propose to open the download with a programme automatically, means do both steps in one.

Now as you got the torrent loaded, but in "Downloading" do the following in µTorrent to change from downloading to seeding:

1/ Stop the torrent (do NOT remove)
2/ Right click on it and select "Advanced" > "Set Download Location…" > navigate to the file location and confirm
3/ Right click again and select "Force Re-Check", it should check to 100% and go to "Finished" (i/o "Stopped" before)
4/ Restart the torrent, it shall go to "Seeding" or at least to "Queued seeding"
5/ If seeding, wait for approval

Then keep seeding, though no data upload will happen and wait for approval.

MrMazda

If you're experiencing this type of problem when using Quick Torrent Maker, it is because you are using Windows 7 and have installed Quick Torrent Maker in the C:\Program Files directory. There are two ways in which to correct this:

Uninstall (delete) QTM, and re-install it to C:\QTM instead.
Open QTM by right clicking the "qtm.exe" file, then clicking "Run as Administrator".

To make a long story short, due to a technical design with the NTFS file system in Windows Vista and Windows 7, the program itself is not given sufficient access rights by default to modify an administrator folder. When you run the program as an administrator, it allows the program to write to an administrator protected folder. This is the case with C:\Program Files, due to a write-protect flag set for your system security.

In the case of QTM, it is safe to grant it administrator rights since the only thing it needs to write to the installation path is the .torrent file when it re-downloads it for you. With administrator rights, or installed in C:\QTM, QTM should work with either uTorrent or BitTorrent successfully. If you experience any further troubles with QTM, please let me know and I can look into seeing if I can duplicate and trace the error to a specific cause.