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How do I add an avatar to my profile? First, find an image that you like, and that is within the rules. Then you will have to find a place to host it, such as ImageShack, Photobucket, or Upload-It!. All that is left to do is copy the URL you were given when uploading it to the avatar field in your profile. Please do not make a post just to test your avatar. If everything is all right, you'll see it in your Profile page. I've lost my user name and/or password! Can you send it to me? Your password is not stored directly anywhere in the database, so it is not possible for us to tell you what it is or, by extension, send it to you. However, you can reset your password and have your username and the newly generated password sent to the email address associated with your account by using this form. Once you've logged into the site you can change your password to something else, if you so desire. Can you rename my account? We do not rename accounts. If there is a serious problem with your username you can PM a SysOp and speak with them about the issue. Can you delete my (confirmed) account? Sorry, account deletions are not active at this time. If you need your account deleted, please PM a staff member and ask them to disable your account for you. Your account will then be deleted automatically once it passes the account inactivity threshold. So, what's MY ratio? Click on your profile, then on your user name (at the top). It's important to distinguish between your overall ratio and the individual ratio on each torrent you may be seeding or leeching. The overall ratio takes into account the total uploaded and downloaded from your account since you joined the site. The individual ratio takes into account those values for the current session of each torrent. You may see two symbols instead of a number: "Inf.", which is just an abbreviation for Infinity, and means that you have downloaded 0 bytes while uploading a non-zero amount (ul/dl becomes infinity); "---", which should be read as "non-available", and shows up when you have both downloaded and uploaded 0 bytes (ul/dl = 0/0 which is an indeterminate amount). What is the minimum ratio I need to have? Downloaded less than 10 GB: no required ratio Downloaded between 10 and 40 GB: 0.5 ratio Downloaded between 40 and 70 GB: 0.6 ratio Downloaded between 70 and 100 GB: 0.7 ratio Downloaded more than 100 GB: 0.8 ratio These are the minimum ratio requirements on ADC. Failure to uphold these requirements can result in a warning and/or a ban. Why is my IP and email address displayed in my profile? Only you and the site staff can view your IP and email address. That information is not shown to regular users. Help! I cannot login!? (AKA the Login of Death) This problem sometimes occurs with MSIE. Close all Internet Explorer windows and open Internet Options in the control panel. Click the Delete Cookies button. You should now be able to login. You could also upgrade to a better browser, such as Firefox or Opera. My IP address is dynamic. How do I stay logged in? ADC uses browser cookies to identify you and keep you logged in. As long as you do not logout or delete your cookies, you will be able to view every page on the site without having to login again, even if your IP has changed since your last visit. If you delete your cookies or logout, you will simply need to login again in order to view any pages. Why am I listed as "Connectable: No"? (And why should I care?) You are listed as not being connectable because the tracker has determined that you are behind a firewall or NAT and are unable to accept incoming connections. This means that other peers in the swarm will be unable to connect to you, only you to them. If two peers are both not connectable, they will never be able to connect to each other as long as they both remain in this state. This can have a detrimental effect on the overall speed of the swarm, and to a much larger extent affect your ability to share back what you've downloaded. The way to solve this problem involves opening the port or ports used by your BitTorrent client for incoming connections. This is the port or range of ports you defined in your client (often referred to as the listening port). You must manually open the port(s) in any firewall you have on your system, as well as possibly in any anti-virus or security software you have installed. See this thread for an example guide on opening your port. If you use a router or your modem has certain features of a router built-in, you will also need to forward the listening port(s) in there. Check your router/modem documentation for how to forward ports (AKA port forwarding). You could also go to PortForward.com and look for your router on that list. Most routers are listed on there, but even if yours is not you should be able to learn what you need to do by looking through a few guides for other routers. Why do I want to be connectable? Will I be able to upload and download faster? As mentioned in the above FAQ entry, being not connectable does not mean that no one can connect to you, nor does it mean that you cannot upload or download at all. What it means is that your client must establish all connections itself, which prevents you from connecting to all other not connectable peers, as well as some of the connectable ones. Therefore by not being connectable you are limiting the number of peers to whom you can upload, which can make maintaining your ratio much more difficult. Since most ADC users are connectable, on torrents with many seeders you will be able to download quickly, and on torrents with many leechers you will be able to upload fairly quickly. You may even have no trouble with your ratio if you're on a fast line and you primarily are interested in very popular torrents. This is due to the fact that your connectable status does not directly affect your upload and download speeds, only the peer availability. The real problem arises when you want to grab a torrent with only a few peers, such as a rare DVD uploaded two years ago, or when you're trying to seed on a torrent with a small number of leechers. In these situations it may not be possible for you to receive or send any data, if you are not connectable. What are the different user classes?   User   The default class of new members. Can download 2 torrents at a time.   Power User   Can download 6 torrents at a time.     Has donated money to AsianDVDClub.org.   VIP   VIPs get secret privileges! Don't ask, don't tell.   Uploader   Can download up to 10 torrents at a time.   Moderator   Can edit, delete, and golden any uploaded torrents. Can also moderate comments and forum posts.   Administrator   Can do just about anything.   SysOp   God-like humans with an uncanny knowledge of UNIX arcana. Do not feed. How does this promotion thing work anyway?   Power User   Must have been be a member for at least 1 week, have uploaded at least 25GB and have a ratio at or above 1.00. The promotion is automatic when these conditions are met. Note that you will be automatically demoted from this status if your ratio drops below 0.90 at any time.   VIP   Assigned by mods at their discretion to users they feel contribute something special to the site. (Anyone begging for VIP status will be automatically disqualified.)   Uploader   Must have been be a member for at least 2 weeks, have uploaded at least 200GB and have a ratio at or above 2.00. The promotion is automatic when these conditions are met. Note that you will be automatically demoted from this status if your ratio drops below 1.90 at any time. Note that this class is unrelated to the ability to upload to the tracker, which can be done with any account.   Moderator   You don't ask us, we'll ask you! I've met the upload amount and member duration requirements, but I haven't been promoted! Be patient. While the server automatically handles promotions and demotions, these do not happen instantaneously. If the current server load is high it could take 15 minutes or more for the change to take effect. Also, you must have a ratio before the system will promote you. If you do not have a download amount associated with your account, then you do not technically have a ratio. In other words, until you have downloaded some non-golden data you will not be promoted to the Power User or Uploader classes. I'm going to be away from my computer for a long period of time, what will happen to my account? If your account is not parked, then it will be automatically deleted from the database after 120 days of inactivity. If your account is parked, then it will be automatically deleted from the database after 240 days of inactivity. If you return or visit the site with your account before that amount of time passes, then the inactivity timer will reset and your account will be fine for another 120 or 240 days (depending on its parked/not-parked status). You can find the account park option near the top of your personal settings page. Keep in mind that 'activity' is considered a visit to any page and that torrent traffic is not counted as account activity. In order to reset the inactivity timer all you have to do is visit a single page while logged in with your account. If your account is deleted for inactivity, please do not ask the site staff to undelete it for you. The deletion is performed automatically by the database and as such, your account cannot be recovered.

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How do I use the files I've downloaded? Check out this guide. Why did an active torrent suddenly disappear? There are two common reasons for this: (1) The torrent may have violated one or more of the site rules. (2) The uploader may have deleted it because of a problem with the files. A replacement will probably soon be uploaded to take its place. If you want to know the specific reason, first check the site log to see what reason was given for the torrent's deletion. If the torrent was removed within the past month there will be an entry for it in the log. If it was deleted by a staff member, you can PM them if you desire further clarification on why that particular torrent was deleted; if it was deleted by the uploader, you're probably better off PMing them to see why it was deleted since the staff may not know the real reason. How do I resume a broken download or reseed something? Open the .torrent file in your BitTorrent client. When you are asked for a location to save the file(s), choose the location of the existing file(s) on your computer. If you set the save location correctly, your client will hash-check the file(s) (this can take several minutes for a single DVD) and once it finishes, you will resume downloading/be reseeding the torrent. If the torrent starts almost immediately after you set the save location without doing any hash-checking, then there was likely a problem and the save location was set to the wrong location. This will cause your client to start downloading the entire torrent. Since you probably don't want that to happen, remove the newly added torrent from your client, and try again from the beginning, making sure you choose the correct save location. Why do my downloads sometimes stall at 99%? The more pieces you have, the harder it becomes to find peers who have pieces you are missing. That is why your downloads will sometimes slow down or even stall when you have just a few percent left to go. Just be patient and you will get the remaining pieces sooner or later. What does the message "a piece has failed a hash check" mean and what are hash fails? BitTorrent clients hash check the piece data they receive and perform integrity checking on it in order to verify that the received piece matches the piece as it was in the torrent uploader's original file(s). When a piece fails this check it is discarded (without being written to disk in most clients), and then automatically re-downloaded. Occasional hash fails can be ignored as a mild nuisance, while a large number of hash fails on a torrent can indicate a problem. Most clients are setup out-of-the-box to kick&ban peers which repeatedly send them bad data, but if you're seeing more than a few hash fails on a torrent, you will probably want to ensure that the option is enabled in order to minimize download waste. The option/preference is generally listed as "kick/ban clients that send you bad data" or something similar. Enabling it will prevent peers from sending you an excessive number of corrupted pieces, as your client will automatically block them once they have sent you more than a certain number of bad pieces (usually 5). How come I downloaded more on this torrent than its total size? See the answer to the hash fails question. If your client receives bad data from one or more peers it will have to re-download the piece(s), and as a result your total downloaded for the torrent may be slightly more than the size of the torrent. Why do I get a "Connection limit exceeded! You may only leech from one location at a time" error? The tracker limits each account to two leeching sessions and three seeding sessions per torrent. You can think of these leeching/seeding sessions as the number of times a torrent is listed as leeching/seeding on your profile. If your client attempts to exceed these limits you will get this error. See this FAQ entry for a likely explanation of why you have multiple sessions for the torrent associated with your account. Why do I get a "Failure: Invalid passkey!" error? For some reason the passkey listed in the .torrent file stored on your computer is not valid. Most likely this is because you have recently changed your passkey on your personal settings page. Alternatively, the file may have become corrupted or it may have been modified by another process. In both cases the solution is to re-download the torrent from the website. You will probably need to remove the old torrent from your client prior to re-downloading it. Why do I get a "Blocked client" or "Version blocked" error? For various reasons, we are forced to block some clients here at ADC. The list of banned clients is here. If your client is listed on there please switch to one that is not banned, or upgrade to a newer version if only older versions of it are blocked. So, what client should I use to connect to ADC? At the moment, we recommend µTorrent and Azureus for use with ADC. They are the best-behaved, least-problematic BitTorrent clients. Make sure you use a stable version of your client and not a beta or experimental version, as they tend to be rougher around the edges than stable releases. Please do NOT report a BitTorrent issue until you have tested your problem in at least one of these two clients. Why am I getting a "leech slots filled" error? Each user class has a limit on the total number of torrents it can leech at any given time, with the higher classes allowed more leech slots. If you have used all of your leech slots and attempt to start downloading another torrent, the tracker will refuse the connection until one of your leech slots becomes available (e.g. you finish downloading one of the torrents). If you recently rebooted your machine and are seeing this error message despite downloading fewer torrents than your slot limit, an improper exit of your client before the reboot might be the cause. Improperly exiting your client can result in some of the old torrents remaining on your profile, leading to multiple listings of them when you restart your client. See this FAQ entry for more information if this is the case. When do I need to reset my passkey? If your passkey has been leaked and it is being used by other people to download torrents using your account, without your permission. Because the torrents are associated with your account through your passkey, they will show up on your profile and count towards your total downloaded and uploaded as if you were downloading them. If you see torrents listed on your profile that you are not leeching or seeding, then someone else may be using your passkey and you should probably reset it. You can reset your passkey through your personal settings page. Please note that you will have to re-download all of the torrents loaded in your client for them to work, as your old passkey will no longer be valid. Why do I get an "IOError - [Errno 13] Permission denied" error on this torrent? IOError means Input-Output Error, and that is an error with your file system. It has nothing to do with the tracker. This error appears in some clients when the client is unable to open a partially downloaded file that's part of the torrent. The most common cause is another process having locked the file, making it impossible for your client to open it. Often this is due to another instance of the client left running in the background or having not been closed properly. Try closing all instances of your client, then open your client again and see if the error message has disappeared. In rare circumstances you may need to restart your computer in order to clear the lock on the file. If the above did not fix the problem, then the error is likely due to some corruption in your file system, especially if your drive uses FAT32. A client or computer crash may result in corruption that makes the partially downloaded file unreadable, leading to that error message when your client attempts to open the file. Running a disk checking/repairing utility, such as Scandisk, should fix the corruption. Why does my client notify me of low disk space even though there is plenty left? The most likely reason is that the file system for that drive partition is FAT32, which has a file size limit of 4 GB. This limit means that files larger than 4 GB cannot be created on the partition - at least under the current file system. To fix the problem you need to either convert the partition's file system to NTFS or avoid using it for files larger than 4 GB. See this page for details on converting the file system under Windows. What is a Golden torrent? Torrents with a golden chest () are considered "free leech", which means downloading them will not affect your download stats, but uploading on a golden torrent will still count towards your upload stats. This means that your ratio can only get better when downloading golden torrents. They are a great place to start for new users worried about their ratio. Note: Golden torrents don't give you the right to hit-and-run, you must seed on them just as you would any other torrent.

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