I asked this question and was linked a github that keeps an up-to-date list of trackers that work. That, as far as i can tell, is the best i can do.

They’re public torrents, if people don’t want it then there’s not much i can do

Beats me. I get peers from DHT, from trackers, and a few from PEX, but once they’re in a lot of them time out. A lot of them return “Connection reset” too.

Happens a lot less when i set up port forwarding properly, but it still happens. Could be a lot of things, and i don’t have the technical knowledge to even know about most

No i haven’t tried that yet, my assumption is that this only includes the settings and not the actual transfers. If it did include the transfers then Tixati users would just do that, instead i was always told to transplant core2.dat

Wait, now that i read that, it DOES include transfers! I did not know that, that’s a solid lead thank you

EDIT: It works, all the transfers are backed up; this is a lot better, especially because i preserves dates (Created, Completed, Bits uploaded, Ratio, etc).

BUT, the file locations are also backed up. This is a problem because i’m switching from Windows to Linux, so i can’t recreate the file structure because it starts with D:/ instead of starting with /media

Once i update the file location, it triggers a force check, which is the point where some of them fail and display 99% even though they were 100% before. That problem is still unsolved, and i now realize it probably can’t be solved.

Overall though this is great, you made me notice something i didn’t and it’s way better than what i was doing, thanks!

EDIT EDIT: yeah i’ve come to the conclusion that those who were 100% and are now 99% are just corrupted.

Aside from that, yeah, the file paths are different on Linux and Windows so you’ll have to rebind the locations. At this point you’ll get “error file missing” for no reason, you can force check to get rid of that.

Man i wish. Here in France they actually send letters and you get a 1500€ fine if you ignore them three times.

Or at least they did back in the day, do they still? Well i’ve already gotten 2/3 letters so i’m not gonna try to find out

Oh my god, i think someone may have recommended this to me years ago and i just forgot… Thanks!

This is what i expect to see in a piracy community on Lemmy