Not starting downloading
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I've just spent hours trying to figure out why my torrents don't start, I set up the port and that's working good but still not downloading. When I select a torrent and look under tracker it says "https://tracker.gaytor.rent/510053. Failure: Bad Ratio: Ratio:1.063 (To many Torrents. Your current limit is 15 at the same time. See Rules / To fix limits you could Donate" But I'm only downloading 3 and have like 200 seeding so I pause everything but the 3 I am trying to grab and still nothing. Whats happening here?
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I deleted the 593 torrents I was seeding and it works now, I didn't know there was a cap on seeding, seems like that defeats the point of the ratio but I don't understand a lot about the torrent stuff. Just thought I'd post how I fixed it in case someone else is wasting all day trying to get their download back. Cheers
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@citydwelleer-0 there is no cap on seeding, you just don't know how torrent works.
If a torrent contains multiple files, and you only download a few, you will never become a seeder. If you keep that torrent active in your client after you have finished downloading, it will stay using one of your download slots indefinitely, and you only have 15.
To help visualize, imagine "progress" as a value ranging from 0 to 1. If you download all files, progress is 1. If you leave any file unchecked, progress will always be less than 1. You only become a seeder when progress reaches 1.
So when you finish downloading, the client reports "seeding" because you have finished downloading, and you are able to seed the files you now have, but since you don't have ALL files, you are still leeching to the tracker.
To avoid this, when you don't intend to download 100% of a torrent's content, you have to pause or remove it from your client as soon as you finish downloading. Otherwise it will stay consuming 1 download slot.
The reason why pausing did not immediately released those download slots, is because it can take from 30 minutes to 1 hour for the tracker to update.
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Thanks for the explanation, I never would have figured that out, might seem obvious to some or most people but expecting everyone to just know is a bit bonkers haha. Anyway, weird that it took me years to trigger this but guess my luck had finally fizzed out. I have a couple more questions if you're cool with it. What about multi-file torrents? If they're 100% done, but then some files get deleted, does that take up one of the 15 active slots again, and either way are they still used for seeding with missing bits n bobs? Lastly I've got loads of finished torrents moved here and there to different drives/folders etc, and I used Windows Explorer to move the files from the main torrent folder but uTorrent doesn't seem to know where they went. I'm hoping there's an easy fix, since I can't be the only one who moves files. So, how can I easily update uTorrent to like scan or something for the new file locations so they're ready for seeding? Because I couldn't say for sure where some of those files ended up and it would take a long time to go one by one figure out where the file went and then tell uTorrent where to look because I've probably got close to 1000 torrents spread around 5 drives and eventually want just 2 huge drives 1 that can hold all my data and the other as a backup so putting in the torrents one by one now and then again and again whenever they get moved next sounds boring and I don't ever see myself doing that kind of data entry work for a porn collection lol. Thanks again for helping strangers out, I hope you feel it's appreciated because it is so cheers!
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@citydwelleer-0 I agree that it's not something one would figure out before running into it, the site does nothing to explain and giving a message that says "bad ratio" makes matters worse, if anything.
Regarding to fully finished downloads, once you delete a file the torrent will automatically error out and stop seeding. In this case since the torrent is stopped, it is not consuming any slot, you're not seeding nor leeching it. If you try to restart the torrent it will re-download the missing files.
About moved files, there is no workaround for this. Either you move them back to their original place, or you will need to single-handedly set a new location for all affected torrents in your list.
The best practice is: move torrents using your torrent client, instead of moving files directly in windows explorer.
But you shouldn't pay much attention to moved files if you only move them after a long period, because they don't have high demand. After a few weeks/months you can remove those older torrents from your client, if you are going to delete some files, change names, folder structures, etc. If you are planning to keep everything, and simply move to a different drive, the best you can do is move them using the client UI. This way you can keep seeding those older torrents.
But honestly it's not worth the effort, usually once files go missing (moved or deleted) I simply remove the torrent from my list and move on.