Help uploading a torrent from Seedbox

Hello, I want to upload a torrent to a tracker using my Seedbox, I know how to do this on my Pc but never tried it on a Seedbox before.
If I try to create a torrent on my Seedbox webUI it only let's me search the directory inside the webUI and not the files on my Pc to create the torrent, so I have a couple of questions to ask.

1x can I create a torrent file on utorrent on my Pc and just add that to the Seedbox?

2x I know if I do the above step that my webUI will not be able to check the torrent as it can't search for the files on my Pc, so is there a way to do this?

3x do I need to create the torrent on my Pc and let it check 100% in utorrent before I can add the torrent to my Seedbox.

Anyone that's has experience uploading torrents to trackers or that knows of any useful guides on how to do this I would really appreciate your help, Thanks

hi post i was trying to figure the same problem out of late...although i just gave up think it has something to do with the ftp and just moving the created torrent across by doing this in what ever ftp you use...

Thanks kirsty, and Happy B-DAY

I have spent hours on this and got a warning from a tracker already for not doing it right, there has to be some sort of guide out there.

I found this on a hungarian seedbox site:
download a software called: maketorrent
download a torrent file from X site to your home PC, meanwhile you have to download the torrent data to your seedbox
So now you have your data on your seedbox, and only the torrent file on your PC. Open maketorrent and load the torrent file which you downloaded from X site, and rewrite the announce url to the Y site's announce url, where you want to upload the torrent.
On your seedbox you have to hash the torrent with your modified torrent file.
In case of torrent sites where you don't have your announce url only after you uploaded your torrent file with the standard url, like fux0r, you have to modify your torrent file to the standard url announce, then upload that file to the site, and download the torrent with your announce url in it from the site, and hash the torrent with that file.
maketorrent: http://href.hu/x/4fsi
video about using maketorrent: http://href.hu/x/4fak

I have had this problem. You can upload the folder to the base folder on the seedbox. Then create the torrent on utorrent and pass the torrent file to the seedbox. However some times the download shows incomplete and will get stuck at around 99%. Make torrent is the best way out if you have the files downloaded on the seedbox. If you haven't downloaded them on the seedbox then upload them to the base folder (download folder) of the seedbox using a FTP client and FTP details and use maketorrent to create the torrent file.

In both cases first check that the seedbox checks the torrent to 100%. Make sure it shows completed and then delete the torrent. After that upload it to the site then re download the torrent and pass it to the seedbox.

Hope this helps.
Good luck.

Thanks guys, but would it not be possible to create the torrent file on my Pc then FTP the folder containing the the files to the downloads folder on my Seedbox.
Then just add the torrent file I created on my Pc to the Seedbox?

Also I'm following some guides and it doesn't say anything about re-downloading the torrent, it just says to stop and Restart the torrent to start seeding.

what front end are you using?

Yes, you can create the torrent from your PC following the upload guide for your tracker. You can do it the way you just explained it. Make the torrent and upload it to the tracker. FTP the file folder to your box. Then yes, re-download the torrent from the tracker because most trackers embed your passkey into the torrent only when you download from the site. Load that into your box, point the target directory to the folder you just FTP'd, and I would start the torrent in a paused state. Then rehash and you should have 100% of the file. If so, start seeding! Good luck.

Great info, when I grab the torrent from the tracker to put on my Seedbox will the download be counted on my stats on the tracker?

It is possible to create a torrent on your PC. Let's start from the beginning of the process. You downloaded something to your PC from X site (torernt or warez) you need to create your own torrent with your announce url (Y site) in it. Some torrent site states this announce url on their upload page, but some, like fux0r has a standard url (no long line of numbers and characters), and you have to upload the torrent file with that standard url, that's why you have to download it from the site. But if you plan to upload to a site where they state the full announce url, than you just have to create your torrent with that given announce url, and upload it to the torrent site.
Anyway the result is the same, you created your torrent file from the files on your PC, and uploaded it to a site. Now you just have to download that torrent file from the site where you uploaded it, and the client on your seedbox will hash it, and it will start seeding it.

The tracker would not register you as a leecher, but as a seeder right away, so no download will be counted.

Download should not be counted but remember to recheck it several times because once i uploaded a torrent file to a site in the same manner. I checked it and it was fine. Then i removed the torrent and downloaded the new torrent file from the site. This time when checking it got stuck at 99% and was showing me as a leecher. So i told you to be careful. If you could use maketorrent it would be better.

Also a suggestion : Before you start uploading the files from your pc to the seedbox via FTP make sure that all the files and that folder are marked as read only. It helps sometimes in the 99% problem i told you about.

Good luck.

Thanks guys for the very useful info: )

Someone should make a guide on this, it would be very useful to members.
Maybe with both options as there seems to be more way than one to do it, I'm ripping a bunch of files at the moment and will let you know how I get on once I do it: )

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This time when checking it got stuck at 99% and was showing me as a leecher.

Also a suggestion : Before you start uploading the files from your pc to the seedbox via FTP make sure that all the files and that folder are marked as read only. It helps sometimes in the 99% problem i told you about.

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I'm not a windows user or a seebox user, but I read somewhere that the missing 1% can sometimes be the .sfv file or a hidden thumb file. In order to create the .sfv file the files have to be on your pc. Meaning you can't create it at home and FTP it with your files to the box. For some reason people upload these files and even contain pathnames from the user’s computer, like C:\Users\Your name\My Documents\Music.MP3. I think the .sfv or thumb file is a windows thing and seedbox servers use *nix. Someone correct me if I don't know what I'm talking about.

"Simple file verification (SFV) is a file format for storing CRC32 checksums of files to verify the integrity of files. SFV is used to verify that a file has not been corrupted, but does not otherwise verify its authenticity." Most of the time it's not just the .sfv but the .nfo what's missing, and that's why you have 99,9%

Maybe both of you are right but in my case it was a FLAC file. There were no sfv's or nfo files in the folder. The remaining part was a small part on one of the tracks. The FLAC was ripped by me and the base folder had no other files other than the FLAC's and the cover.

I almost forgot: if you download the torrent from some other site and download the files to the seedbox you can upload the same torrent file of the first tracker to the tracker you want to upload this torrent on. Once uploaded the tracker names are replaced by the passkey and you can redownload it and pass it on to the seedbox.

Tested and worked for me. Was uploading some stuff from SCC to what.cd.

That's good to know, so basically I can upload all my torrents I have on my client to my Seedbox and start to seed them if there an exact match on another tracker: )

[QUOTE=slash;123723]I almost forgot: if you download the torrent from some other site and download the files to the seedbox you can upload the same torrent file of the first tracker to the tracker you want to upload this torrent on. Once uploaded the tracker names are replaced by the passkey and you can redownload it and pass it on to the seedbox. [QUOTE]

I would never do this unless you completely removed the torrent from the first tracker. I understand why it would in theory, but this is breaking most tracker rules: Do not upload our torrents to other sites. I'm not an uploader, but I believe most full time uploaders who upload files to multiple sites create new torrent files for each site and with dissimilar piece sizes ie. 65kb, 256kb, 512kb, 1mb, and so on. If someone tries to cross seed your torrents with identical piece sizes, like with uTorrent it'll tell you that the torrent already exists, would you like to merge torrents? Saying yes is very bad and will get you banned. Never merge torrents from different tracker urls under one torrent instance.

I forgot to add that. If following that method first youll have to delete the torrent file first and then add the new torrent that you downloaded from the site you just uploaded it to. Thanks InTheAttic for pointing that out. I forgot to mention that in the previous post.

Ok so I uploaded the torrent to the tracker on utorrent on my Pc and it's seeding away nicely, I copied the torrent files through FTP to my Seedbox and put them in the downloads folder then I re-downloaded the torrent file from the tracker.

I added the torrent file in a stopped position to the Seedbox and right clicked on it to rehash it, now this is where this is where the problems start.
Instead of rehashing the torrent goes to a paused position and stays like that, if I add it to start seeding straight away then it just shows as downloading.
Is there something I'm doing wrong or did I miss a step?
I'm going crazy here trying to figure this out.

PS: If you don't here back from me it's because I smashed my Pc off the ground.

I finally fixed the problem, in my FTP client if I right click on a file I uploaded to the Seedbox through FTP then I click properties and have to change the ownership of the file.

Looks some like this:

R W X
R W X
R W X

I had to check the appropriate boxes to chagne the ownership of the file so the Seedbox would let me seed it: )

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