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Title: etree Seeding Question
Post by: stevetoney on January 04, 2009, 02:52:02 PM

I seeded a show over a year ago.  I've long since have deleted it from my harddrive, but I keep my FLACs backed up onto DVD.  I recently had someone ask me to reseed the show.  This show has been dead for a loooong time, but it was recently resurrected and this one seeder is hanging on. 

So I reloaded the files onto my harddrive and did a file integrity check and they all checked out fine against the original torrented files. 

But when I try to seed the torrent, it will only go to 99.9% complete.  I'm thinking that the difference between what I have and the original torrent is that I might have changed the text file from the original in order to add/correct track names.

Any ideas on how I might be able to seed this now, or do I need to reseed it from scratch because of the changed text file?

Thanks!

Title: Re: etree Seeding Question
Post by: bhadella on January 04, 2009, 03:00:19 PM

You can try emailing any of the folks on db.etree that show having your source and see if they can email you the original txt..................

Title: Re: etree Seeding Question
Post by: wklitz on January 04, 2009, 03:06:00 PM

no harm in seeding from scratch... especially if your 99.9% problem is cause you have fixed the txt file since the original upload.

Title: Re: etree Seeding Question
Post by: giveaway on January 04, 2009, 04:43:35 PM

Seed from scratch, or e-mail them them your new *.txt file after they reach 99.9% downloaded, if your *.txt is definitely the file preventing 100% verification.

Title: Re: etree Seeding Question
Post by: vanark on January 04, 2009, 05:10:00 PM

Quote from: root_ on January 04, 2009, 04:43:35 PM

e-mail them them your new *.txt file after they reach 99.9% downloaded, if your *.txt is definitely the file preventing 100% verification.

This won't work.  The piece that contains the .txt file likely also contains part of a FLAC file and therefore one FLAC will be incomplete.

Title: Re: etree Seeding Question
Post by: itook2much on January 05, 2009, 07:15:22 PM

I've had the same thing happen at other trackers.  Nothing changed at all since seeding, show still in the same place on the HD.

Title: Re: etree Seeding Question
Post by: Scooter123 on January 07, 2009, 04:51:04 PM

The dreaded 99.9% problem.

There is a FAQ on the Dime site for this.

My experience is that  I would make a new torrent and upload a new torrent file. 

Otherwise you have to find out what in the devil has changed in the folder you were seeding, an impossibility.  Or do a snail mail trade to the guy and have him upload it.