I tried to download a torrent from a private tracker, but because there was 0 seeds/peers on the tracker I switched to a public one. After leaving the torrent running for some time, I checked back and to my surprise the torrent wasn't done! (It should have been, based on the # of peers and the duration I let the torrent running.)

I decided to add some more trackers when, to my surprise, ktorrent disallowed me to because "you cannot add trackers to a private torrent!" I'm halfway done, so I tried downloading a new (public) torrent, but ktorrent still treats it as private -- and I've tried this with at least 4 torrents with 4 different trackers (mostly variations from thepiratebay.) Can anyone help me?

EDIT:
I'm on OpenSuse 11.1 KDE 4.3 RC 1, using the ktorrent 3.2.2

This is done because the torrent gots mangled into a multiple tracker torrent. But this is a problem when you start a private torrent, because the tracker was already private.

What you need to do is remove the torrent so you do not have the infohash of that torrent loaded anymore. This way you will have a non private torrent. Off course you need to load a non private torrent for this.

I've tried removing the torrent (but not the data) and using public torrents (about 4 or so,) but no dice. Even after I've removed the torrents, renamed the directory, and then loaded up a new torrent and pointed it to the new directory the problem still persists.

I've even tried starting anew without using my partially completed torrent, but using the public version of the torrent on a completely different drive - after removing the original from ktorrent, of course - but it STILL insists that I'm using a private torrent.

This is very weird, because after you import a non-private torrent, the data should be imported AND you should be able to add an extra tracker. (although DHT alone would do also)

No DHT for me, **** tracker-peers and nowhere to go but... well I don't even know where to go from here. 'Baffled' is what I am...

This might be a stupid question, but did you actually select a public torrent in the torrent list ?

George wrote:This might be a stupid question, but did you actually select a public torrent in the torrent list ?

Haha, yes I'm quite sure I did. I only have (or I should say "had") the one torrent on my list. I actually finished downloading the download from the public tracker (thepiratebay, I think was the one I decided to use) although the torrent was always marked as private and I couldn't addd more trackers or use the DHT.

Are you actually sure that the torrents you load are public ones ?

100%. I loaded the torrent(s) on transmission and they were recognized as public.

I can't reproduce this and every time you select a torrent, the tracker tab is setup properly depending if a torrent is private or public.

This is very strange.

It appears KTorrent is up ti it's old tricks again. Now, though, I'm using mandriva 2009.1 with KDE 4.3.1 and KTorrent v 3.2.2. I've downloaded two torrents (both public) that are now flagged as private regardless of how many different versions of the torrent itself that I download. I've witnessed this behaviour on KTorrent from OpenSuse, Fedora and now Mandriva...

The first torrent was relatively small, so I didn't really care. Now, however, I've got about 12 GB's to download without the help of DHT... I don't know what I can do to better report or document this problem -- maybe a screenshot perhaps?



**NOTE!**
I just picked a random name for that torrent. It's NOT what I'm downloading and I don't support or endorse Pirates or their pirate-hats and peg-legs and especially the lingo... I'm totally serious.

Can you send me that torrent ?

Link to torrent (but not the one I'm actually downloading, mind you, I don't support piracy...) sent in a PM.

I'm having the same issue with Ktorrent. How did you resolve it?