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Why do I show up as a leecher with 0% completed on a torrent I uploaded?

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Why do I show up as a leecher with 0% completed on a torrent I uploaded?

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This is because you have set your BitTorrent client to look in the wrong location for your torrent’s files (or for the wrong file), leading it to believe that you do not have any part of the file(s) completed. Remove all listings of the torrent from your client, download the .torrent file from the details page again and open it in your client, then make sure to set the save location to wherever you have the files saved on your computer, and finally start the torrent. Your client should spend a few minutes hash checking the file and then begin seeding. If your client immediately starts trying to download the torrent or if the completion percentage never moves past 0%, then the wrong save location was specified. A common source of confusion with some clients, such as Azureus, is that you need to specify the parent directory of where your files are saved, rather than the actual directory of the files. For example, if you have your DVD files saved in the directory C:\Movie and you choose t

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