I already have the file, but the torrent-client won't recognize it.
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Hi, I have a tech question about making my torrent-client work properly. I already have the file, but the client insists on trying to re-download it. How do I force the client to use the file that I already have, rather than re-download it redundantly? I have tried the "force re-check" option but that does not solve the problem. The same problem appears in at least two torrent-clients (I've tried both BitTorrent and Deluge). Is there a setting or a button that will fix this?
I have on my hard drive a copy of this video:
- Cock Hero - SqueezePlay.mp4
http://www.milovana.com/forum/viewtopic ... 25&t=15028
However, of all the torrents listed in that thread, I didn't use the first one, which is kind of "non-public" because it's hosted at Empornium. Rather, I used one of the torrents linked in a later post by user named "nerdgasm", whose post is here:
http://www.milovana.com/forum/viewtopic ... 28#p189148
I believe that the method I used was to go to the Magnet-Link at Pastebin, here:
http://pastebin.com/jkb04NJX
I may instead have used another one of the torrents posted by Mister Nerdgasm instead. Anyway, somehow I got the file by means of torrenting and Deluge.
So here's the chronology. The file came in properly. Then, I closed out Deluge, and came back to it a few hours later. In the hard drive, the file is still sitting there intact. I re-ran Deluge, it recognized all of my OTHER torrented files properly, re-started all of the OTHER downloads that were incomplete, began again to seed all the OTHER downloads that were complete, but it freaked out over this one file. It still thinks that I have none of it, and will try to re-download it, and also would (if I let it; which I don't) try to put it into the same folder as the existing file with the same name, and yet does not prompt me to confirm whether it may over-write the existing file. Furthermore, from within the client, if I select "open file" or similar, the client DOES recognize, open, and run properly, the entire video. In other words, the client(s) have contradicted its (their) own information about whether or not the file is intact and complete. Some parts of the client(s) think the file is at 0%, but other parts know it's there and do access it and run it properly. Weirdness.
So, it's all messed up. I have taken a backup copy of the file, and am now wondering what else to do. I DO own the file already, and there are several torrent versions out there. What should I do to best use my limited bandwidth, help seed to the community, re-acquire a file that is working in my torrent client, etc.?
Thanks for any help you can muster.