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this may be a dumb question but i was reading some articles and trying to understand seeding and peers; i generally pull up a torrent and grab the actual files but uncheck the random txt files like the ones that say where it was downloaded from (just for personal preference to keep my directories clean). does that cause any problems for others? should i not be excluding them from downloading? i generally keep torrents seeding when they're done but if i don't download those small files am i causing problems?

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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

it shouldn't if you only have 99% of the torrent, you will only share that 99%

it just means they won't be downloading that random useless text file from you and will have to resort to getting it from someone else. you will still be sharing the 99% you have

thanks! i figured it wouldn't but i got worried (now if it was the other way around and i ONLY downloaded the txt files :P)

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

I'm annoyed by your use of only capital letters in ONLY. :P

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