Transmission

I've got all the security updates.

the problem is this: I open the torrent file and it does not recognize that i have the entire document already downloaded.

My private tracker is requesting i seed more and i'm having issues adding data files and their accompanying torrent files on to transmission for seeding. I have the older version of Transmission bc i have yet to update my OSX. There must be something simple I'm overlooking.

Yes I am a noob but any ...