Reloading a torrent to updata a tracker identification

[pjl52]

I have several torrents that I have downloaded and wish to share. I belonged to a private tracker that keeps track of the upload/download ratios. It is my understanding it does so by the torrent which has some identification data that ids me. I belonged in the past but my membership expired.

I have opened a new account which has a new id for me. I now I must somehow associate my old downloaded files to the a newly downloaded torrent which has the same name but different id data on it for me.

I tried deleting the old torrent and downloading the new. Transmission won't let me do this as it says that the torrent already exists.

I was told that the proper way to update the tie of torrent to downloaded files was to reload torrent, start it and then stop it, and then point it to the old data files.

I really cannot figure out what to do. I have looked at past posts about the problem of trying to repost a torrent and being blocked. But these discussions do not help me.

Can someone tell me what to do?

p

[Spadge]

You might have to delete the corresponding files in both the torrents dir and the resume dir of your transmission dir (where settings.json lives).

Try that and let me know if it works.

[pjl52]

Where do I find these? I have searched and not found them.
p

[Spadge]

open a terminal and type:

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ps wwaux | grep transmission | grep -v grep

the directory shown right after "-g" will show you where settings.json lives.

At least, that's how it works with transmission-daemon.

[pjl52]

Thanks.

I found the files in */Library/Applications support/Transmission

For future reference for others with a similar problem one needs to delete the old torrent; go to the Applications suppport/Transmission/resume and torrent folders, then remove the torrent in question.

The download the new torrent, start it, drag the old data files into the folder used for the new files, then verify local data.

[Spadge]

Awesome.

Job Done.