How to seed already downloaded torrent

Make sure to sign-up for ExpressVPN and enjoy the Internet as it should be — open and without any privacy concerns. This will help you to understand why is seeding required and why you should never delete the files as soon as you download them. The first important thing to understand is that you can seed torrents only if you have the fully downloaded torrent on your computer.

You keep the files intact and you keep the torrent active in your torrent client. However, you have accidentally moved or renamed the files.

All of the sudden, uTorrent displays an error and tells you that the torrent is now inactive. That is pretty much it when it comes to how to seed torrent files. However, there are numerous other interesting areas to explore. There, we'd like to provide a few helpful resources:. As you can see, seeding is quite simple. All you need to do is to leave everything as it is after you download a torrent.

We hope you found our guide on how to seed torrent files to be helpful. If you have anything to add, post a comment below. If you think other torrent users might benefit from reading this article, feel free to share it online. Add a Comment. Edit this Article. We use cookies to make wikiHow great. By using our site, you agree to our cookie policy. Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download and install a bittorrent client.

This is a piece of software that handles the torrent sharing process for you. There are many clients available for free download on the Internet; search for and read reviews for some of them to determine which one is right for you. Search for the particular torrent in which you are interested.

This can be done easily using a bittorrent search engine. There are several of these on the Internet, and they are specially designed to find users with the torrent file you are looking for.

Popular torrent search engines include The Pirate Bay and Isohunt. You may also have some luck searching for a torrent on a regular search engine.

Download the desired. A file with the ". Once the file is where you want it to be on your hard disk, don't move it again otherwise, the torrent client will have trouble finding it.

Open the. This is usually achieved by double-clicking on the file. The bittorrent client will automatically search the Internet for users who have that exact torrent. It will then connect you to those users and begin downloading and piecing together the file. Check how many users you are retrieving the file from. The more users you are connected to, the faster your download will be. Once you have finished downloading the file, leave the bittorrent client running.

This is how you seed torrents, and this step is crucial to the health of the file sharing community. By leaving the software open, you are allowing other users to download pieces of the file from you "seeding".

It is important that you upload at least the file's size worth of data; for example, if you download a MB file, you need to seed until other users have downloaded MB worth of that file from you. The ratio of downloading to uploading that you do is carefully tracked by the Bit Torrent software, and that ratio determines how fast you are allowed to download. If you only download files and then immediately close your software, your download speeds will suffer because you are not doing your part for the file sharing community.

Delete the. This step is optional. You can continue to seed the file as long as you want and this will establish a very good ratio , but once your upload to download ratio for that file is about 3 to 1, you can safely delete the. In info, under transfer, somewhere it should say share ratio. For example: share ratio: 4. Just because the files have the same name and are the same size does not mean they are the same. I'm not sure why you need to force recheck? If you've setup everything properly then when you add the torrent it should detect the existing files and start checking.

You could try upgrading to 1. Also what version of libtorrent are you using? Post by nickeh » Tue Aug 24, pm Well im sure that its the same files should have same checksum I'm wondering if changing the folder name is the culprit? Will do some testing on that EDIT: Nope, same problem Well guess i'll have to wait till 1. One thought, if one file missmatch deluge would only overwrite that file not all of the files or is the checksum for the whole torrent?

Post by johnnyg » Tue Aug 24, pm The torrent is broken up into segments of data called pieces and there are checksums for each piece. Pieces can span multiple files.

So it's possible for one file to check but not the others. It's also possible for only part of a file to check. Post by nickeh » Fri Aug 27, pm Yeah, but the foders ar set up correctly since the files are actually overwritten.