Having problems doing a large upload
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A friend of mine sent me a large collection of videos from a fan site--188 files and 56 GB. I made thumbnail files for each video, so the resul is a big folder with all the videos and a sub-folder of the thumbnails. When I try to make the torrent file within uTorrent 3.5.5, the progress bar gets about 25% across, and then uTorrent crashes.
I've been able to make torrents for big uploads before; the largest being 80 GB with 24 files, and everything worked fine. I think the problem must be with the number of files. Any suggestions on how I can manage this? If it's too many files, I could break it into pieces, but that creates a lot of litter in the torrent listing.
While the material isn't my favourite (it's a shaved twink), there's a torrent on here with just images of the guy. That one has over 500 downloads--so I think people are interested in him. My folder has wanking, sucking, and fucking.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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@eobox91103 There must be something else going on, as this is unusual. What that something is however I couldn't say.
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Any special characters in file names? That has caused me problems in the past. -
@tnar That will usually throw you an error the moment you open the .torrent file in the torrent client. It won't get as far as checking the contents if this is the case.
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@tnar said in Having problems doing a large upload:
Any special characters in file names?
I don't see any special characters, but that has tripped me up before, and I appreciate the reminder. I'll fiddle around with creating .torrent files with various subsets of the whole collection--not for uploading to this site, but as a diagnostic tool.
I'm thinking now that uTorrent needs a lot of RAM to make the complicated torrent, and even though the machine has lots of it, perhaps it's not being made available. (Yes, it's a Microsoft box. I'm sure it's a feature, not a bug.)
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As a workaround, have you considered splitting it into perhaps 3 parts, 2 with the videos and another with the images? Since you suspect it could be to do with the overall size I'd say that's a good place to start. It will also help to narrow things down if it's a particular file that's causing the issue, even if that is unlikely.
