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title: "Can the seeding rules stop or delete torrents of one category after some days?"
url: "https://forum.qnap.net.pl/threads/can-the-seeding-rules-stop-or-delete-torrents-of-one-category-after-some-days.46359/"
thread_id: 46359
date: "2026-11-11"
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# Can the seeding rules stop or delete torrents of one category after some days?

> Source: <https://forum.qnap.net.pl/threads/can-the-seeding-rules-stop-or-delete-torrents-of-one-category-after-some-days.46359/> · FAQ · Forum QNAP Polska · 2026-11-11

**Symptoms**

- You want torrents of one category, for example tv, to stop or go after some days, while the others keep seeding.
- The **Seeding & Retention** page has no rule per category.

**Cause**
There are two seeding rules: one for public torrents and one for private ones. A rule checks whether a torrent is public or private, not its category. Each rule acts on a finished torrent when the first of its conditions is reached: a ratio, an amount uploaded, or a number of days since the download finished. It then does what you picked: **Pause**, **Stop**, **Remove the task** or **Delete, data to trash**. In a new install, the public rule is on (ratio 2.00 or 7 days, then **Stop**) and the private rule is off.

**Resolution**

1. Open **Seeding & Retention**. In **How seeding ends**, set the rule for your torrents' kind, public or private: its **ratio**, **uploaded** and **days**, and the action in **then**. Each click on a badge saves the change immediately.
![](https://forum.qnap.net.pl/attachments/76017/)
2. Keep torrents that should continue seeding out of the rules. Open the **Full view**, pick their category under **Label**, tick them, press **More** (the … button beside **Category**) and choose **Keep out of the seeding rules**.
![](https://forum.qnap.net.pl/attachments/76018/)
3. To undo this, choose **Back under the seeding rules** in the same menu.

**Notice & Advise**

- A torrent added later is under the rules until you keep it out the same way.
- The rules are checked every 5 minutes. A rule acts on each torrent once. If you start a torrent again by hand, the rule leaves it running. After you change a rule, it applies to every torrent again.
- Check your tracker's seeding rules before you switch the private rule on.

Ref. links:
[Rtorrent 16 guide: Seeding & Retention](https://pub.qnaputilities.com/rtorrent16/demo/guides/?g=seeding)

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