Transmission

What used to work

settings > network >
automap - on
randomize - off.
my vpn assigns me a port number, when not on vpn, seems to work anyhow. is this possible?
or use a # in range of 52,001 and 54,999 has worked before. ymmv

sorry, no expert here.
gd all

I'm not sure if this what you ask for, but I keep a file of the .torrents. that is, set TM to not trash .torrent files, collect from dl folder and maybe file by month in another location. If you find the one related to a dl, select and do cmd-I (on mac systems). The information file includes:
size ...

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using macOS Big Sur v. 11.6.6 on an iMac 27-inch 2019 Intel i9. I tried Transmission 3.00 when it came out, but it dropped the first music file when I uploaded, might be time to try again. Went back to Transmission v. 2.94 (d8e60ee44f). Using Mullvad VPN through wireguard, port is ...

Try on the Network screen in Preferences (with microTP on) - Automatically Map Port.

I dunno, it worked for me...