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So I made a torrent and uploaded it from Windows + uTorrent
I then swapped to my Ubuntu partition and downloaded the magnet link via qBittorrent
My problem is, even though I set the directory path to the original file, I can't force recheck, because it claims to have an unknown size, because it generally doesn't know until it receives a few bits from a third party connection.
Should I just go finish seeding from Windows? Generally when I seed from windows my modem/router drops all the wireless connections - I've yet to see that problem happen with Ubuntu.
Router/Modem model is NVG510 in case you were wondering.
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 / Ubuntu 14.04 x64
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Quote:My problem is, even though I set the directory path to the original file, I can't force recheck, because it claims to have an unknown size, because it generally doesn't know until it receives a few bits from a third party connection.
With magnets; client basically download torrent file from (first) peer and in your case I think that's you on windows+uTorrent. So basically until your torrent on windows is not connected, it will keep showing "unknown size". There's a thread discussed earlier explaining how magnet works. Tinker with it.
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If you're in Ubuntu, copy the files from the windows partition to a folder in the linux partition, select that new folder for the torrent program, and recheck. I think the problem is trying to use a folder from the windows partition.
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Jun 08, 2015, 04:02 am
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(Jun 08, 2015, 03:26 am)The_Abee Wrote: So basically until your torrent on windows is not connected, it will keep showing "unknown size". There's a thread discussed earlier explaining how magnet works. Tinker with it.
I think the problem is that I swapped partitions without seeding to any peers whatsoever; Therefore the partition can't obtain receive any data, including the file size. Forever reason all the torrent clients have that flaw, you can't force recheck unless you have a file size specified. You would think, having the same exact hash and directory output, that a torrent client would be able to detect it better.
I'd love a link to that thread by the way.
(Jun 08, 2015, 03:59 am)connor17 Wrote: I think the problem is trying to use a folder from the windows partition.
Works fine for multiple other torrents, as Ubuntu has the windows partition mounted.
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Load the file using the torrent, not the magnet.
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(Jun 08, 2015, 04:06 am)connor17 Wrote: Load the file using the torrent, not the magnet.
I've tried that as well, from app data
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From appdata?
Just click in the torrent file.
If you have the file and the torrent you made from that file, you can't have any problem.
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Could you see if setting your directory one level higher helps.
i.e., if your torrent files are in say "/home/YMS/torrentfiles/YMSdir/", trying seting path to "/home/YMS/torrentfiles/".
where YMSdir is the folder on which you created the torrent in Windows.
Load the torrent into the client using the torrent file as above.
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I don't suppose any of you can suggest a seedbox service that isn't likely to snitch on me for seeding copyrighted material? I hardly think I should be seeding whole movies with only 90KB/s upload.
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Stick to the original question or start another thread in another subforum.
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