Adding a New Torrent with the Files Already on Your Computer

[spudz1986]

I am sorry if this is a ridiculous question, but i need to ask. also, let me add that i am new to linux; i just switched from windows and have been using utorrent.
i am trying to add a torrent in which i already have the files on my comp, and i can not figure out how to do this with deluge. in utorrent, all i did, which is pretty intuitive, was set the torrent to download in the directory, where my files were located, it would check that i had them, and then it would seed. how the hell do i this in deluge? i have tried, and it will not do it. when i have tried to navigate it to the directory where the files are, it comes up with a message that says boost::filesystem::createdirectory. muchas gracias for the help

i do not understand how in the hell that would change how i direct the program to a directory, but the newest deluge, and ubuntu hardy

[danii]

it would help if you said which Linux you're using and the version of Deluge that you're running

[johnnyg]

if you have a torrent that contains a folder called FolderA and two files inside that folder called FileB & FileC and say you've got them sitting in a folder on your hard drive called downloads such that the paths of your two files are "downloads/FolderA/FileB" & "downloads/FolderA/FileC".
if you now download that torrent again and tell it to download in downloads, deluge will recognise the same subfolder name and the same filenames and check them.

Currently deluge won't recognise files you've downloaded unless they have the same structure and names as the ones in the torrent.

[johnkelly]

but is there a way to just start seeding a file? like in transmission, there was the 'verify local data' option, which would check to make sure you have the files, then initiate seeding.

[johnnyg]

do you mean to start seeding a file that you've downloaded or to start seeding a torrent that you've created?
to do the former the above directions apply, however you won't be able to create torrents in deluge until 1.1.0.

[johnkelly]

ah got it now. thanks.

btw, can is there anything special I need to do to get deluge to seed from hidden folders? I mapped it all the way there (same steps as I've used on other files, and they are seeding now) but instead it keeps downloading to my desktop.

[johnnyg]

not that I know of, but I've never tried downloading to a hidden folder.
By hidden do you mean it begins with a dot or is this on windows?

[ichernev]

I have a similar problem to the one described. I upgraded to deluge 1.0.5, it found all my torrents (previously using deluge 0.5.9.3) but it started to download them again. I selected all the torrents and clicked 'Force Recheck', and it checked about 50 / 65 of the torrents and began to seed them. However the remaining torrents remain with status 'Checking 0.00%' but no checking is really done (none of the torrents is rising it's checking percent). I removed all limits in bandwidth and queue with no success. I also paused all other torrents and tried to pause/unpause/recheck the problematic torrents, again with no success. I tried to remove them and then add them again, but in the beginning it starts to download them again, if I press force recheck it stays at 0 %.

What should I do?

P.S. I'm running FC8 x86_64 and I installed deluge 1.0.5 from source after compilation.

[johnkelly]

not that I know of, but I've never tried downloading to a hidden folder.
By hidden do you mean it begins with a dot or is this on windows?

'/.'

[ichernev]

After I restarted the daemon the next day everything seems ok. However the fact that deluge starts to download something already downloaded on my hard drive is little annoying.