Reseed Request Problem
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Hello,
I am fairly new to the site and want to try to contribute more. If this is the wrong place please forgive me but it took a while just to find this section.
I often get reseed requests for files and am more than happy to do this. However I have a system for my downloads.
When i download a file I keep seeding it until it has sat dormant for 2-3 weeks. Once this happens i change the file name to help me organize it. On some occasions, if it is a folder multiple of items, I may go through and remove duplicates and items i don't like or want to save drive space. Unfortunately all this makes reseeding impossible. I don't want to upload it as a new file because technically it isn't, it's just cleaned up a bit and i want to avoid duplicate uploads.
Does anyone have any ideas on how i can still share my files to help the community but not kill my drive storage or bandwidth?
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copy and rename the file if someone ask for re-seed if not delete the file to save disk space and duplicates ...
To re-seed :
Always check how many seeder,
1-5 seeder is fine to re-seed
10-100 is pointless ... [only if FL ... you have chances] ... -
I see this is rather old, but I just saw it and it still may be interesting to others.
The way you can do this is with hardlinks. They're more or less filesystem-level shortcuts, so you can have multiple "files" with different names and even different file extensions - all pointing to the same file on the disk.
You can add hardlinks with the program called Link Shell Extension. (Symlinks won't work if the torrent client tries renaming the file).
You also can use the program called DupeGuru to automatically look for duplicates and replace them with hardlinks.
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@frostygrin Interesting concept that I've not heard of before. Will have to look into that
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Symlinks seem to be more popular - people use them e.g. when moving installed games from one disk to another. I've been using them for years. Tried them with uTorrent a few years ago - and it didn't work, apparently because it's adding ".!ut" to incomplete files, and it breaks the link. Only now I tried hard links - and it works. And with DupeGuru you can even remove duplicates from overlapping packs, but still keep seeding them all, thanks to hard links.
