The original post: /r/torrents by /u/enzodr on 2025-01-23 23:43:22.

When I first started torrenting, I would wait until the file downloaded, and then delete it from my client. Once I realized I was taking but not giving, I would leave it open for a day or so until it’s ratio was above 1, and then remove it, so as to not attract attention (I wasn’t using a VPN then).

Now, I have a VPN, and I may as well contribute. The problem is I have thousands of files downloaded, but I don’t have the .torrent files. I realized that if I can find the same magnet link online and I add it to qBittorent, it recognizes that I have the file already and just starts seeding it right away. But this requires going through the process of finding where I got it from originally again, which is tedious.

Is there a better way to get all these back again?