Re: Seeding old torrents
Sometimes folks change something in the files, whether it's renaming things, or altering the file structure (putting some things in their own folder, etc...) and that'll throw your seeding hopes in the trash!
Best you can do if it's just small differences is to start downloading and then stop it after it's begun to write some files on your drive, then stop it and copy your pre-existing files over the partly downloaded ones, then force a re-check in your torrent program. If the files are the same, and the structure is identical, it should re-check to 100% and start seeding... I've seen re-encoded FLAC's that don't check out at all, re-tagged files that re-check most of the file but need the headers re-downloaded so like 80% or 90% matches, new text files or stuff changed, etc.
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