1<html> 2 3 <head> 4 <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 5 <link media="all" rel="stylesheet" href="../styles/TransBody.css" /> 6 <title>Using Transmission</title> 7 </head> 8 <body> 9 <div id="mainbox"> 10 <div id="banner"> 11 <a name="menus"></a> 12 <div id="machelp"> 13 <a class="bread" href="../index.html">Transmission Help</a> 14 </div> 15 <div id="index"> 16 <a class="leftborder" href="../html/Index2.html">Index</a></div> 17 </div> 18 </div> 19 <div id="pagetitle"> 20 <h1>Managing your transfers </h1> 21 </div> 22 <ul> 23 <li>Torrent files contain information about the actual file you want to download, and connect you to the swarm of peers sharing it.</li> 24 25 <li>Transmission can watch a certain folder (eg your Safari download folder) for torrent files and then open them automatically via Preferences -> Transfers -> General.</li> 26 27 <li>By default, Transmission deletes the original torrent file upon opening. If you remove a transfer, in order to resume it you will need to reopen the original torrent file in Transmission. 28 Simply choose 'Save Torrent File As���' from the File menu before deletion to avoid having to download the torrent file again.</li> 29 30 <li>Once your download is complete, you can set a default ratio to automatically seed to, and then pause. 31 This can be adjusted in Preferences -> Transfers -> Management, or in real time using the Action menu.</li> 32 33 <li>Both seeding and downloading transfers can be queued, and Transmission can skip over stalled transfers, in order to maximise queuing efficiency. 34 Queuing can be configured in Preferences -> Transfers -> Management.</li> 35 </ul> 36 37 38 </div> 39 </body> 40 41</html>