i had dl some movies and because of a virus my pc crashed and everything was wiped out. but i had evrything backed up incl xvids. to keep up my upload/seeding ratio i need to start uploading some of the movies. i followed the guide for utorrent for seeding/uploading but im confused. for eg a movie i downloaded from the specific website which i mentioned i had backed up,i put it back in my downloaded files folder in my pc, create a torrent for it and download the .torrent file from the website and save it in .torrent folder. when i open the .torrent file thru the utorrent client, it starts to download the the same movie again although i have the same full xvid movie in my pc. why is that? why is it not only seeding why dl or thsi is how it works, first it will dl it again and then seeding. i had put the website tracker and everything in the properties.

plz clarify, thanks in advance

No It does not need to download again to start seeding a file.

In your case I believe the torrent file is not in the same folder as the file you want to share. This is a good rule of thumb. When you create the torrent file, that the torrent is in the same folder as the target file( the one you want to share.)

Upload it to Useekfile and redownload it, all in the same folder. The way I view torrent files as pointers to a file. They contain the information as to exactly where the "target file" is stored on your hardrive. If you move the the file after creating the torrent, the bittorent client (utorrent) won't know where to look for the file and assume it is a new download.

Hope this helps

Let me know if you need some more help.

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I FIRST HAD THIS PROBLEM: I'm having the same problem. I have a folder with mp3s in my My Music folder, named Sezen Aksu. I create a .torrent with the Useek tracker (http://useekfile.com:2710/announce) using utorrent and save it in My Music folder as well. Then I upload the .torrent here at Useek according to the guide (new thread, attachment, etc). Then I download and save the .torrent from the post in My Music folder (I actually replace the old .torrent file, but I don't think that causes the problem) So the final .torrent downloaded from Useek website is in the same location as the target folder. When I open the .torrent using utorrent just by double-clicking on the .torrent, it queues it for download not for seeding. The only time I saw any type of seeding was when i first created the .torrent with utorrent to begin with, and there, although I coudl see the tracker as Useek, status didn't show anything (i.e. didn't say working or anything) At some point, it said "scraping" but I dunno what that means... I get the same result if I check "initial seeding" in advanced setting as I open the .torrent (the initial one or the downloaded one) with utorrent. I don't know what that does either, but thought I'd give it a try... Oh, and I did try saving the downloaded .torrent with a new name so that it would not replace the old one, in case that causes the problem, with no luck. (i.e. Sezen Aksu.torrent vs. Sezen Aksu1.torrent) Coudl it be that I need to do something special since this is a whole folder instead of just a single mp3?

THEN: well, I figured it out, i think. The folder i was trying to share had other folders in it, and i think this was the problem. So instead of sharing a folder with 14 folders in it, I made a torrent for one of the 14 folders, put it in the folder itself, and it worked. Well, it didn't work, something else is the problem now:

New problem: Now It says "Failure: Unregistered torrent pass" Hmmm... I dowloaded the new .torrent from my post in Useek, I am logged in, so what is the problem now? When I was first opening the downloaded .torrent utorrent said something like "this .torrent already exists, do you want to update trackers" and I said Yes. Should I have said No?

Thanks for all your help in advance!

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I have exactly the same problem! Any help would be much appreciated