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Offline jayjay19

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Seeding Question
« on: January 16, 2011, 05:24:21 PM »
I've been downloading torrents to my computer and then moving the files to my external hard drive so i can plug it into my tv and watch them. I've also renamed the folders but not the files. Is there still a way to seed them now since I've changed them?
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Offline Soryon

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Re: Seeding Question
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2011, 05:27:46 PM »
As long as your torrent client can have access to the files being seeded then you are golden.
I personally have 4 HDs on my computer (8TB total), but I only run torrents off of one of them. No reason to have shit active if it does not need to be.
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Offline jayjay19

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Re: Seeding Question
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2011, 05:33:08 PM »
oooh. so you just tell it where to find the file and it'll seed?
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Online Al_Sleeper

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Re: Seeding Question
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2011, 06:18:30 PM »
In short, yes.
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Offline Xiong Chiamiov

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Re: Seeding Question
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 04:47:43 AM »
Some clients allow you to specify a different folder name, while other only allow you to specify where the folder is located.

For instance, say I'm downloading the Rabbit-Force Clannad AS torrent.  It is currently located at '/media/storage/leeching/[Rabbit-Force]_Clannad_-After_Story-_[DVD_H264_AAC]'.  If I move it to '/media/storage/anime/[Rabbit-Force]_Clannad_-After_Story-_[DVD_H264_AAC]', I can still seed the files (after notifying the client), but I cannot if I move it to '/media/storage/anime/Nagisa_Sucks_lololol'.

I'm not sure which clients support renaming (rather than just relocating).

I use symlinks to create an easily-browsable alternate directory.  You can use shortcuts or NTFS symlinks to achieve the same thing in Windows.  There are probably Explorer extensions written for symlinks so you don't have to drop into the command prompt.
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Re: Seeding Question
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2011, 06:57:24 AM »
IIRC, uTorrent, BitTorrent and Vuze do support folder renaming.
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Re: Seeding Question
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2011, 08:10:29 AM »
you can, you just stop the torrent (if your torrent is still listed on your torrent client)
and just right click in the files and relocate
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