FAQ Can the seeding rules stop or delete torrents of one category after some days?

[Silas Mariusz]

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.
   
   
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.
   
   
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