Thanks for the explanation, I never would have figured that out, might seem obvious to some or most people but expecting everyone to just know is a bit bonkers haha. Anyway, weird that it took me years to trigger this but guess my luck had finally fizzed out. I have a couple more questions if you're cool with it. What about multi-file torrents? If they're 100% done, but then some files get deleted, does that take up one of the 15 active slots again, and either way are they still used for seeding with missing bits n bobs? Lastly I've got loads of finished torrents moved here and there to different drives/folders etc, and I used Windows Explorer to move the files from the main torrent folder but uTorrent doesn't seem to know where they went. I'm hoping there's an easy fix, since I can't be the only one who moves files. So, how can I easily update uTorrent to like scan or something for the new file locations so they're ready for seeding? Because I couldn't say for sure where some of those files ended up and it would take a long time to go one by one figure out where the file went and then tell uTorrent where to look because I've probably got close to 1000 torrents spread around 5 drives and eventually want just 2 huge drives 1 that can hold all my data and the other as a backup so putting in the torrents one by one now and then again and again whenever they get moved next sounds boring and I don't ever see myself doing that kind of data entry work for a porn collection lol. Thanks again for helping strangers out, I hope you feel it's appreciated because it is so cheers!

I deleted the 593 torrents I was seeding and it works now, I didn't know there was a cap on seeding, seems like that defeats the point of the ratio but I don't understand a lot about the torrent stuff. Just thought I'd post how I fixed it in case someone else is wasting all day trying to get their download back. Cheers

@john32123666 ok thanks. I'll try my best haha. also I had to reset my computer so I have all my torrents I was seeding in my backup external, do I just put them back in the folder where the torrents go after completed and then click the torrent files for each to get them back seeding again?