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Freedom Kira:
Hmm. Sorry for the "did you turn the printer on" question, but did you reload the page to check?

Also, in your uTorrent settings, look for a setting that has to do with shutting down gracefully, and make sure it's set, and then try the whole thing again.

Belove:
bt.graceful_shutdow n=true
Yeah, I've refreshed the page (even tried Ctrl-F5 to clear the cache), closed all windows and renavigated to the site.  Its looked like this on the order of weeks now.  If I stop all torrents, the numbers drop to zero after a few minutes, but restarting the torrents shows extra downloads.

One long shot that comes to mind is:  I am wrong and those statistics are right :)
I only remember intentionally downloading only part of one torrent.. And I have scanned the Size, Selected Size, and Downloaded Size columns in uTorrent for consistency several times, and other than what I am actively downloading at the moment, and the one partial torrent I remember -- everything is completely consistent with a full download and seed.  But I am a human and prone to errors.  And those columns due to their resolution leave room for the possibility of a very small file or two being skipped.  (e.g. sfv file).  I don't usually do that and don't remember doing that, but perhaps...

I tried to turn the printer on but it was unplugged. ;)
No problem on the line of questioning -- I'm not too proud to admit that even I overlook basic things sometimes.  I just wish there weren't so many gosh darn torrents to troubleshoot...

Freedom Kira:
Heh, I guess it really is some torrents that were only downloaded partially.

SFV files are not supposed to be part of a torrent. They are supposed to be added as attachments to the site's torrent page. If you notice an SFV file in a torrent, you should make a comment on the torrent.

Here's a way to cut down on time. Take all of your torrents and put them in a list in your client. Start half of them, and check the numbers. If you see the number of downloads go up, stop half of that half, check the numbers again. If the number of downloads doesn't change, start half of the next half. Do this over and over until you zero in on the torrents that are marked as downloading. Using this method, you should theoretically be able to check 1024 torrents in at most 30 checks (10 checks per torrent you're looking for).

Belove:
Tahnks so much for all your help :)
The binary method would be some help, but with ~ 15 minute delay for that status bar to update, it still would take some time.

However! Brilliant news, I had already narrowed it down to being among 60 torrents I'm seeding.. and today I had the brilliant idea of maximizing my uTorrent window, flipping to the Files tab and making it big.. my screen is hi res so a lot of data shows at once. I just arrowed down through those 60 torrents, while watching the files tab for the color red / skipped / incomplete files.
Took about 2 minutes!  and I discovered I am ..  :-[ .. to blame.

Actually, no SFVs or tiny files, it was major skipping in all cases, and intentioned at the time.
I realize SFVs are supposed to be attachments.  I did see one in some torrent or other once but I forget which :)  In the future I'll report it.

Thanks again Freedom Kira, you're so kind!
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