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   Rich  wrote:   
   >   
   > If I remember, I just let it create its default (or I copied the   
   > example from /usr/doc/rtorrent-0.9.7/).   
   >   
   > Are you perhaps trying to use an older .rc instead of starting from the   
   > example?   
   >   
      
   Thanks again for responding Rich.   
      
   I tried the doc file example yesterday, but I don't know   
   where to put a torrent, or where the intermediate and   
   file results go.   
      
   I looked at the source. It is written in c++ with which I   
   have no programming experience but it is pretty readable.   
      
   It seems to be looking for a directory basedir, which   
   can be defined by the argument -d. Online searchs for   
   information about these files from the rtorrent team   
   are contradictory. It seems that within the basedir directory   
   it may look for torrents, start, load, session, and downloads.   
      
   So I made the directory RTDL, and under that created   
   the above named directories. I started rtorrent with   
   rtorrent -d RTDL -s session   
      
   where I also created a standalone directory session.   
      
   rtorrent started OK with normal looking screen.   
   However I put two torrents into the RTDL/start   
   directory and nothing happened, rtorrent just   
   sat there. Then I tried copying a torrent into   
   the torrents directory, and again nothing happened.   
      
   When you use rtorrent, can you tell me where you   
   put a torrent to activate the download process?   
      
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