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Reseed Individual Episodes as a Complete Season

Why would I need to do this?

How do I do it?

Tidying Up.

Don't wait for others to do it.

Why would I need to do this?

A couple of days or so after the finale of a season, a show's individual episodes will be combined into a Complete Season. When this happens, the individual Episodes will be Trumped and Deleted from the tracker, and you will in all probability receive an Unregistered Torrent error in your torrent client for the single Episodes.

Although it is quite safe to remove and delete the single Episodes at this point from your client, with a little time and effort you can continue seeding the individual Episodes you've already downloaded as a Complete Season and continue to receive Cubits for them. This article describes how to re-seed individual Episodes when a Complete Season has been created and the individual Episodes are Trumped and Deleted from the tracker.

The implementation of this method will vary between torrent clients, please refer to your torrent instructions, or one of the other guides on how to perform the actions.

How do I do it?

First you must make sure that the Complete Season contains the files you already have. Normally season packs are made from the episodes already on NBL. However, occasionally different episode releases are included in the Complete Season. If this is the case, you will either need to skip the different release, or download it to complete the season (if you would like to earn bonus points for seeding, you will need to download the missing episodes in order to seed the whole season). Either way, you'll need to check whether you have the correct files. To do this first visit the Browse page and use Advanced Search. In this example we are going to create a Complete Season for the show named Snowfall but we want only 720p WEB-DL episodes. As you can see in the image below it very easy indeed to do. The principle is the same for example if you wanted 1080p instead of 720p then simply make sure you replace 720p with 1080p in the Tags field.

Tidying Up

If you have moved/copied in an individual episode file, and it was not recognized by the torrent client as being part of the Complete Season, you should delete it from the Complete Season directory - it's just wasting space.

Once you've successfully moved the individual episode files into the Complete Season, you should use your torrent client to delete the individual episode torrents (and their data). Once they are deleted from the tracker, your stats will no longer be tracked, and having two copies of the same file is just a waste of space.

Don't wait for others to do it.

Don't wait for others to create the Complete Season when the season has ended. Creating it yourself is a terrific way for you to contribute to the site and the community and help staff and fellow members alike.

// So say we all