mac help for beginner

[dporn]

ive only recently had the possession of a Mac OS X computer, i am new to computers in general and am not very good with torrent systems and how they work. I have downloaded transmission and have downloaded the torrents which i would like to upload now but there is one small problem. When i try to add the torrent to transmission a window pops up telling me to locate a tracker. What is a tracker and how will i go about opening this torrent file in transmission once i have one?

[livings124]

You add the .torrent files to transmission. The window you describe is the creator window, which means you're trying to add something other than the .torrent file.

[dporn]

ahh, still not getting any results. Ive tried many different torrent files from many sources and its all the same. It says that There is no tracker address when i click create, and The torrent file will not be able to be opened. A torrent file with no tracker address is only useful when you plan to upload the file to a tracker website that will add the address for you. pleeease help

[jah]

are you trying to create a torrent, or are you trying to download something?

if you want to download something, read the 'getting started' section in the help.

in a nutshell: a tracker website will list items to download. clicking an item will download a .torrent file to your desktop. dragging this file into transmission will start the download.

if you drag a file or folder into transmission, T will attempt to create a .torrent file, in which case you need to enter tracker into etc. this is what you seem to be doing.

[darkerred10]

The same problem has been happening to me. I will download a torrent file and when I drag it into transmission the "create a torrent" window pops up, NOT the add torrent window.

When I go to file and choose the "open torrent file" and select the file, I get a message that says " 'blahblahblah.torrent' is not a valid torrent file. The torrent file cannot be opened because it contains invalid data"

The file I am trying to drag in is definitely a torrent file. I have tried it over and over again. I have downloaded three different versions of transmission and this is still happening.

PLEASE HELP! (fyi, I know very little, so if you know how to fix my problem give my VERY basic step by step explanation)

[livings124]

Going on the information you provided, it sounds like the torrent file is invalid.

What's in the message log when set to debug?

[darkerred10]

I have downloaded dozens of different files from different sites and get the same messages.

[darkerred10]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know all of this. I have downloaded quite a few successfully. But then, all of a sudden every time I try to open the bittorent in transmission I get the same message that it is not a valid file. If I try to drag and drop the file into transmission it acts like I am creating a torrent file, not adding one. (See first post for more detail)

[tatler]

Same thing has been happening to me - and this is getting very annoying - it does exactly the same as you are describing - if you drag it you get the "create a torrent" message. I only recently made the big jump from like vrsion 0.82 - which had no problems at all - but since downloading v1.42 I have had this problem.

[Debu]

Have you tried double-clicking on the .torrent file?

If the add window doesn't open, do a "get info" on the .torrent file and make sure Transmission is selected as the "open with" application.

[tatler]

No matter how I do it - double-clicking, right click and "open with" or open from Transmission's file menu - the response is the same. I read on another board that it may be that the torrent was created by a program which does not translate over to Transmission - I think it was uTorrent - the idea was that if you create a faulty torrent using that programme, uTorrent can still read it - but other Torrent clients can't. If this is true then those torrents are not salvageable by me.

[nutter12]

Hey guys, i recently experienced this problem, it seems it was only a case of waiting for the torrent file to be completely downloaded before bringing it into transmission...hopefully this works, as it worked for me!

PS i was torrenting an HD tv season approx 20 GB, so it took a while to download the torrent file.

[chrisjf]

I had the same problem. All of a sudden my torrent files kept saying "*.torrent" is not a valid torrent file. I then realized this might be because I switch to Google Chrome. I switched to Safari and the torrent downloaded fine and Transmission accepted it. For some reason, torrent files downloaded with Google Chrome don't work. Weird.