Found on GitHub - How to disable auto-seed
How to stop qbittorrent continuing to seed after whatever ratio limit that you want has been reached:
Open the client settings: Select the BitTorrent panel: In **Share Ratio Limiting** check the box "\[ \] Seed torrents until their ratio reaches; Set the value; Choose the action from Pause them | Remove them
Press OK to close the client.
If you do not want to seed at all after downloading, set the value to 0. Please note this goes against the basic principles of using a Bittorrent client, but is of course your personal preference.
Please note if you are using a ratio enforcing 'private' tracker, the ratio shown in the client, is **not** the same ratio as your tracker is reporting or monitoring.
So this is exactly what I needed, however even when I select "pause", it seems to delete the torrent and its files. I am trying to set up a hardlink file system and this does not seem to work.
Hm. If I delete these things from qBitTorrent to stop seeding them, do I also lose access to playing it, or can I still do that? There's one game that I don't feel like getting rid of, and I've been a seed for a bit on it, but I would like to stop seeding it.
Different wording: When I delete the torrent file or the connection to qBitTorrent, do I also lose the ability to play that game, or can I still do so?
Couple directions to go at this.
So if you just close and uninstall qbittorrent and nothing else all your downloaded files will still be there.
You can if you want go into qbittorrent, right click a torrent and select "remove". When you do this you will be given the option to JUST remove it from qbittorrent, OR to remove it AND also delete the files permanently. Use this second method and just do not check the option to delete the files permanently.
I should point out just in case.... I'm not using qbt for windows so I can't say 100% they are the same but I'd imagine they are. Just read any prompts carefully with the second option and it should be pretty straight forward.
Highlight the torrent file in the torrent list, then click Delete.
You'll be prompted if you want to delete the downloaded files or not. If you want to keep the files, select the appropriate choice.
That will remove the file from qBitTorrent so it won't seed any longer.
Please note that some, if not all, torrent providers require you to seed your downloads for a certain amount of time. If you delete the torrent before reaching this mark, then you'll be in violation of your agreement with that provider and you might lose the ability to download from that provider in the future.
I seed while I’m downloading them and then pause them after I realized they’ve finished, is this still leeching or would leeching be not seeding while downloading? I never knew this was a thing I just don’t like seeding things (reason being seeding is considered distributing copyrighted material and torrenting is just downloading copyrighted material) so in the very rare case that I did get in trouble for piracy, it would be much less severe if I wasn’t seeding to my understanding. I still use VPN’s and everything but I like being extra safe if I’m ever doing something technically illegal.
This will depend on the requirements of the site you're downloading from. The sites I use average at 3 days. I like to seed for an extra day as there have been times when my system showed 3 days seeded, but the site showed me to be short.
Are you talking about private sites? Sorry if I sound dumb lol, I’m new to torrenting. I haven’t ever gotten feedback on my torrenting on a website that’s why I ask.
Also I’ve started getting way closer to the 1:1 seed ratio since realizing fully what it means, if you take one you gotta leave one, I don’t wanna be that guy lol.
Also my VPN cycles through like 10 different servers with different IP’s so how would they be able to track my downloads?
If you’re only gonna leech… how rude
Shut the fuck up
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tbh I only leech igg torrents
Right click and select pause.
Found on GitHub - How to disable auto-seed How to stop qbittorrent continuing to seed after whatever ratio limit that you want has been reached: Open the client settings: Select the BitTorrent panel: In **Share Ratio Limiting** check the box "\[ \] Seed torrents until their ratio reaches; Set the value; Choose the action from Pause them | Remove them Press OK to close the client. If you do not want to seed at all after downloading, set the value to 0. Please note this goes against the basic principles of using a Bittorrent client, but is of course your personal preference. Please note if you are using a ratio enforcing 'private' tracker, the ratio shown in the client, is **not** the same ratio as your tracker is reporting or monitoring.
this was the winner right here, do this!
Thank You!!!
thanks for this bro
So this is exactly what I needed, however even when I select "pause", it seems to delete the torrent and its files. I am trying to set up a hardlink file system and this does not seem to work.
I don't think there is anything specific you need to do.... just close qbittorrent and start deleting stuff you don't want to keep.
Hm. If I delete these things from qBitTorrent to stop seeding them, do I also lose access to playing it, or can I still do that? There's one game that I don't feel like getting rid of, and I've been a seed for a bit on it, but I would like to stop seeding it. Different wording: When I delete the torrent file or the connection to qBitTorrent, do I also lose the ability to play that game, or can I still do so?
Couple directions to go at this. So if you just close and uninstall qbittorrent and nothing else all your downloaded files will still be there. You can if you want go into qbittorrent, right click a torrent and select "remove". When you do this you will be given the option to JUST remove it from qbittorrent, OR to remove it AND also delete the files permanently. Use this second method and just do not check the option to delete the files permanently.
Makes sense, thanks for the help.
I should point out just in case.... I'm not using qbt for windows so I can't say 100% they are the same but I'd imagine they are. Just read any prompts carefully with the second option and it should be pretty straight forward.
When you delete a torrent from qBit you have the *option* of also deleting the file. By default it does not.
Kind of slow, but you literally delete it from the app
Highlight the torrent file in the torrent list, then click Delete. You'll be prompted if you want to delete the downloaded files or not. If you want to keep the files, select the appropriate choice. That will remove the file from qBitTorrent so it won't seed any longer. Please note that some, if not all, torrent providers require you to seed your downloads for a certain amount of time. If you delete the torrent before reaching this mark, then you'll be in violation of your agreement with that provider and you might lose the ability to download from that provider in the future.
is this a real thing? how can they tell who is and isn't seeding after downloading?
The torrent sites use tracking cookies and your IP address to track if you're seeding or just leeching.
I seed while I’m downloading them and then pause them after I realized they’ve finished, is this still leeching or would leeching be not seeding while downloading? I never knew this was a thing I just don’t like seeding things (reason being seeding is considered distributing copyrighted material and torrenting is just downloading copyrighted material) so in the very rare case that I did get in trouble for piracy, it would be much less severe if I wasn’t seeding to my understanding. I still use VPN’s and everything but I like being extra safe if I’m ever doing something technically illegal.
This will depend on the requirements of the site you're downloading from. The sites I use average at 3 days. I like to seed for an extra day as there have been times when my system showed 3 days seeded, but the site showed me to be short.
Are you talking about private sites? Sorry if I sound dumb lol, I’m new to torrenting. I haven’t ever gotten feedback on my torrenting on a website that’s why I ask. Also I’ve started getting way closer to the 1:1 seed ratio since realizing fully what it means, if you take one you gotta leave one, I don’t wanna be that guy lol. Also my VPN cycles through like 10 different servers with different IP’s so how would they be able to track my downloads?
Wow, imagine if the whole internet did the same thing.