I've found where this has been mentioned, but I'm not clear yet.

I'm currently downloading one file–seeds 1(1) peers 1(2) ... and seeding six files showing values something like seeds 0(37) peers 3(6).

Which number is the one to watch to know how long to seed a new torrent? (I'm still struggling with the whole 'swarm' thing, but I think I see that they are everyone the system can see ....)

Is it unusual to have all the seeds have the zero?

Thanks for helping to enlighten those of us whose brains are a bit 'dim',

swally

Hi aaliass,

Thanks–it checked immediately after starting, and is queued for approval & seeding now.

My mistake was in the instructions given in this thread where it said, "You need to download the torrent file from the site otherwise it will not be shared with other people, so click download torrent." My mistake--I thought it was speaking of the .torrent, not the actual video file.

Thanks again--I hope I get the hang of this process, as I have a terabyte or two of files I could share--the hardest part so far seems to be searching to be sure I don't duplicate other's offerings.

Swally

Hi

I'm a true newbie to torrents. And I've got a question for you. I've created a .torrent file, uploaded it successfully, downloaded it (thanks for your directions), and after waiting 24 hours, it still says 0.0% downloaded in uTorrent.

Is there something else I need to do to get things started? I'm not uploading or downloading anything else, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks so much!