Help me with this torrent.
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I've just downloaded this torrent and it seems to be stucking at "Finding Peers" with no progress. Can somebody help me with this problem?
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@serdue0 said in Help me with this torrent.:
I've just downloaded this torrent and it seems to be stucking at "Finding Peers" with no progress. Can somebody help me with this problem?
Well, that sucks - there are only 3 seeders!
Meaning: there aren't a lot of choices WHERE to get this torrent FROM, and you can't request a re-seed.
Assuming you can download OTHER torrents, you'll just need to be patient with this one...
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I've had this happen a few times. Often it fix itself in a while (maybe an hour or two) and start seeding. Other times, I've deleted the torrent and then downloaded it again and it works fine.
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@eobox91103 what option did you choose when deleting the torrent?
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@bi4smooth i've been waiting for 6hrs, this one is a toughie
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@serdue0 said in Help me with this torrent.:
@eobox91103 what option did you choose when deleting the torrent?
I use uTorrent with Windows 10: I right-click on the torrent in the client listing, and select "Remove and delete torrent + data." Then I'll download the torrent again and start over.
With other torrent clients and/or a Mac, it's probably similar, but perhaps another user can weigh in if this doesn't work for you.
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Just a note: there is no value in deleting the DATA when you remove a torrent to re-download it.
The data that has been downloaded already (if any) will be checked against the block-checksums that are in the .torrent file. If any block's checksum fails, you will re-download it in the next iteration. But, if you have blocks that are valid, you will NOT re-download the same data all over again.
So... delete torrent? yes, delete torrent + data? not usually
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@bi4smooth said in Help me with this torrent.:
Just a note: there is no value in deleting the DATA when you remove a torrent to re-download it.
Good point--I think I was on autopilot when I typed this. Deleting torrent + data is my default when cleaning out my torrent data folder after I've archived any downloads to another location. In the case of a "stillborn" torrent, there wouldn't have been any data so nothing was lost.
On a related note, a couple of days ago I had another one of these "won't start" torrents. I was reluctant to delete it and start over as I had carefully selected about 10% of the many files for downloading, and I didn't want to do that over again. I let things be, and after two days or so the torrent started up and I got the stuff I wanted. That's a longer delay than usual, but patience paid off.
(Who was it that said, "Lord, give me patience, and give it to me NOW?")
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@eobox91103 said in Help me with this torrent.:
@bi4smooth said in Help me with this torrent.:
Just a note: there is no value in deleting the DATA when you remove a torrent to re-download it.
Good point--I think I was on autopilot when I typed this. Deleting torrent + data is my default when cleaning out my torrent data folder after I've archived any downloads to another location. In the case of a "stillborn" torrent, there wouldn't have been any data so nothing was lost.
On a related note, a couple of days ago I had another one of these "won't start" torrents. I was reluctant to delete it and start over as I had carefully selected about 10% of the many files for downloading, and I didn't want to do that over again. I let things be, and after two days or so the torrent started up and I got the stuff I wanted. That's a longer delay than usual, but patience paid off.
(Who was it that said, "Lord, give me patience, and give it to me NOW?")
I heard something from a staffer once:
- MOST of our torrents come from a small handful of "mass uploaders" (bless them!)
- MOST of them are, at any given point in time, seeding hundreds, if not thousands of torrents
- MOST of them have limited (less than 10G) upload speeds and can "feed" about 10-20 connections at a time.
SO, with that in mind, when there are only a few seeders, sometimes you have to "wait your turn" to connect to them because they're busy seeding other torrents to other users...
IMHO, it helps to keep in mind that ALL of us volunteer our resources to share all this awesome porn (even the fat, hairy, tattooed guys I'm totally not into! LOL)!!!
