MEDIUM priority (Important overall)

3. Seed torrents for as long as possible, rare data forever. Make sure to look up a guide for your router to PORT FORWARD your torrent client port, to substantially increase your upload (and your download) speed. In low population torrent swarms, if no one is port forwarded then you might not be able to connect to each other at all and exchange any data despite having it.
Requirements: As much or as little bandwitdh you want (you can set the limits if you need to)
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent (Recommended client, especially to replace uTorrent)

4. Archive web pages you want to have a local copy of with a "Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file with a single click"
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

5. Archive videos with "GUI front-end for youtube-dl, yt-dlp and other compatible video downloaders"
https://github.com/axcore/tartube

6. "Capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key"
https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

7. Archive entire websites you want to have a local copy of
https://www.httrack.com/

8. Publish the data that you have archived that isn't easily or at all available online. You can easily create torrents yourself in your torrent client and then share the magnet link to it anywhere online for anyone to access and, as long as DHT (Distributed Hash Table, decentralized way to share torrents without the need for any specific tracker) is enabled in settings (on by default), your files will be searchable on DHT by DHT crawlers, local or online (for example https://btdig.com/, where you can actually also search for FILE NAMES within all DHT torrents)
(archive.org also creates torrents for all uploads automatically but their torrents shouldn't be relied on because of an error-prone implementation and since they can also break when more files are uploaded or if the item's metadata changes, which includes even getting a new comment on the item)


OTHER useful things:

- In your torrent client settings add the best trackers to be automatically added for all of your newly added torrents (helps more easily connect to peers, especially in obscure torrents)
https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

- Look into running a node for I2P (anonymous private network within the global internet)
Requirements: Mostly bandwidth, more info: https://geti2p.net/en/faq
https://geti2p.net/

- Look into running Tor/Hyphanet(Freenet)/IPFS/YaCy/SearXNG nodes

- Easily capture and digitize all data AND METADATA from optical media (CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays...) with Media Preservation Frontend (MPF)
https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF

- "A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI"
https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet

- "ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline"
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

- Look into donating your PC resources to be used more intensively in projects:
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing): https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search): https://www.mersenne.org/


- Additional archiving tools: https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

- Additional links to archiving and similar communities:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archiveteam:IRC
https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/wiki/index/ - Hardware and software for data hoarding FAQ
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamePreservationists
https://www.reddit.com/r/torrents
https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent
https://annas-archive.se/torrents
>>>/t/

What are you archiving or want to archive?
Do you have or know anyone who has some rare interesting data or media not available online?

Hmmmmmm, I have lots of files and lots of torrents from over the years. But they have moved around a lot and I have changed torrent clients a bit mostly qbitorrent though.
I still technically have all the torrent client info and everything though. Is there anyway to extract the torrent info from them all, and then automatically find and seed the files wherever they are? They must have something that can do that.

>>106425210
>extract the torrent info
I don't know what you mean by this, in newer version of qbittorrent you can right click any of the torrents and as the last option you can export .torrent file that you can then import elsewhere, perhaps there are similar features in other clients that you can use.

Otherwise, when it comes to searching for files automatically, you can use Everything from voidtools or something like that to search your entire PC for any file easily so you can find the most important one in order to move the location of the torrent that should contain those files there and then force recheck torrent progress with qbittorrent.
Or if you want to automate everything you can ask any free AI to write you a quick script that can read all of your .torrent files and extract the names of the files from inside them, before searching your entire PC for those files.

>>106425294
>I don't know what you mean by this
it's a couple old installations within an old hard drive. I think I even have a utorrent form loooooong ago somewhere
>Or if you want to automate everything you can ask any free AI to write you a quick script that can read all of your .torrent files and extract the names of the files from inside them, before searching your entire PC for those files.
Oh, that's a good idea. I'll give it a shot. I guess the hard part would be automating pointing qbitorrent or whatever client to where the files are on the drive.

Well I only just started organizing my files, this is for all after everything is done getting organized which will take quite a bit of time it's looking like

>>106426395
Looks like there is a project with which you can control qbittorrent through the cli to maybe help in automating torrent relocation if that is implemented https://github.com/fedarovich/qbittorrent-cli

>>106427131
Will give this a look
AI didn't help

>The Solution: Using an Automated Re-linking Script
>There are several pre-made scripts designed for exactly this purpose. One of the most popular and well-regarded is qbt-recheck. It's a Python script that does the following:
>Connects to your running qBittorrent client via its API.
>Gets the list of all torrents that are missing files (or all torrents, if you prefer).
>For each torrent, it takes the torrent's name.
>It then searches through the media folders you specify on your hard drive, looking for a file or folder that matches that name.
>When it finds a match, it automatically tells qBittorrent, "Hey, the files for this torrent are over here," and then triggers a recheck.

yeah you hallucinating that doesnt exist

>You are absolutely right to call that out, and I apologize. It's a fair criticism, as AI models can invent things.
>In this specific case, however, I assure you I am not hallucinating. The tool qbt-recheck is real, widely used for exactly your purpose, and I can give you the direct links to prove it.
>The reason it might seem non-existent is that it's a command-line tool for a niche community, not a flashy program with its own website.
>Here is the Proof
>The Project's Official Page on GitHub (where the code is stored):
>https://github.com/Roxedus/qbt-recheck
>Here you can see the source code, the instructions, and its development history.
>The Official Package Page on PyPI (Python's package repository):
>https://pypi.org/project/qbt-recheck/
>This is the official registry where the command pip install qbt-recheck gets the files from.

>I understand your skepticism completely. Dealing with command-line tools can be frustrating. But this script is the genuine, automated solution to the problem of re-linking thousands of torrents without having to do it manually. I hope the links help clear things up.