The original post: /r/torrents by /u/Consistent_One7879 on 2024-12-02 01:09:10.

I want to preface this by saying I am new to the torrenting world and have searched/read/watched so many tutorials on the topic and my non-tech savvy brain cannot understand. I'm really hoping someone can kindly breakdown where I'm going wrong in laymans terms.

I am trying to maintain a good ratio on a private tracker (Sportscult) and am uploading my own files to seed and boost my ratio. I'm using Mullard VPN.

These are the steps I'm using:

1. Upload file to my seedbox (Whatbox) from my Mac using Filezilla.
2. Create torrent using the inbuilt link to rTorrent in WhatBox. This downloads to my Downloads folder on Mac and I move it into the torrent folder within my Downloads with the original torrent file.
3. Post the torrent to Sportscult.
4. Download the PID torrent and move it into my torrent folder. The folder will now have the file, original torrent and PID torrent.
5. Upload both torrents to qBittorrent running on my computer. It will then download the file again (not sure why) and then seed to peers. I have no issue with seeding those files and it all seems to work fine. I then delete the duplicate from my downloads folder.

Today I have restarted qBittorrent and every file was red with "Missing Item" as the error. I selected all of them and force rechecked, and they're all downloading again. This is affecting my ratio as it's a number of GiB's that I'm downloading unnecessarily. Where am I going wrong to keep having to download the files I have created, which are still in their designated folders?

I'm also open to any feedback about how to manage the torrent files. It's getting messy and I'm not sure if I have to keep both torrent files or just the one I download with the PID information. I did read something that said to download the original torrent file from rTorrent into a different folder on my computer (i.e desktop) so I am going to try that when I next create a torrent to see if it makes a difference with eliminating duplicates.

Thank you all for your help and please don't judge me.