From the rules:

"Requests for uploads are strictly prohibited. This includes the torrent descriptions, comments, forum and shoudbox."

@tnar I follwed the same route to wind up on BiglyBT too. One feature I use regularly is the labelling/tagging function, so I can set up rules for new torrents when they're added. All my porn gets a porn tag automatically, then downloads to one folder before moving to a completed folder. I have another rule set up for the trackers I use for films or software. It;s just nice to have is all run without any real interference required. I don't know if other clients have that ability or not, but with Bigly I just download the torrent file itself and an when it's done everything is neatly organised into it's own folders.

The UI is quite nice too. I seem to be able to fit more info on screen than I can with most other clients.

@pupash Jesus, how many people do I need to try and save from the ban-hammer before somebody reads the effing site rules???

UPLOAD REQUESTS ARE BANNED, JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE WHO POST THEM! IT HAS BEEN THIS WAY FOR OVER 5 YEARS NOW!

PLEASE go and read the site rules. The mods enforce them, and I'm bored of seeing people getting banned and even more bored of trying to warn people that they're asking to be banned.

Sorry, I'm normally more polite but I've had too much coffee and it's hot as fuck here right now, but seriously, do yourself a favour and read the rules. And either delete this or change the wording very carefully.

@Kevin4fm Thanks. Saves me being even more rude than I was to that chap last night. I'm a nice person really, but it's over 30C in my flat right now and I haven't slept in 3 days so my patience has worn very thin.

@rentboy Its probably worth noting that this thread is over a year and a half old and referencing gay-torrents.net. Gay-area.org is an entirely different site.

And yes, gay-area.org is down for everyone. It happens. It'll be back in a few hours probably.

@IncubusAZ Have you clicked on the bell icon to the left of the REPLY button and selected "Watching"? That'll give you a notification if anyone posts to the thread.

(You've probably already done this, but I only mention it in case you hadn't seen it.)

Above all, do whatever you can to keep your mental health as good as possible! If you can't get into the right headspace to manage your condition then you're going to end up in a downward spiral.

Even as a child I was never good when it came to taking pills, so having to take daily medication is a real struggle. There have been times when I've stopped my meds for various reason, be that just hating the pills, depression, hating the fact the I need the pills at all, or just forgetfulness. Sometimes this has lasted for several months, and I ignored contact attempts from my healthcare worker. My last break lasted around a year.

Finally got off my ass and got in touch with them again, and my CD had crashed to 96. They've moved me onto a single daily pill as opposed to 3 different ones, and I've done everything I can to be a good boy. In the last 2 months I've only missed a single dose, and that's because I just forgot one night. Overall, my numbers are climbing nicely now.

@Gaylmah-0 Usually when I've bought SSD's in the past the manufacture has free software specifically for checking the health of the SSD, in particular the total uptime and number of read/write cycles as well as the overall health of the drive. As @ianfontinell said, if it's been reconditioned (hacked, if you prefer to look at it that way) then you probably can't rely on that data now. My understanding is that after too many cycles the storage degrades and becomes physically unviable, not something you can fix through software.

In all honesty I would consider that drive to be a brick and remember this entire lesson in the future. If you have data you care about, don't buy second-hand storage. At least you found out before you put treasured files on there and deleted the originals.

@bear1989 https://www.suu-design.com/downloads.html

@cp2000 I use Duplicate Cleaner Prime to find exact duplicates, but so many videos are uploaded in varying sizes and resolutions, sometime with a couple of seconds trimmed at the start or end, that it can't find them all.

I've been using the idle time on my PC to run my ENTIRE collection through Handbrake to reduce file sizes and fix various playback issues, and now have everything shrunk down to 720 (or smaller if the original was smaller.) Now that that's done I'm tidying up my folders, putting everything into studio groups and doing the same with amateur content. (People are so bad at uploading OF collections that you inevitably end up with a dozen duplicates of some files!)

The final stage is cataloging everything with Stashdb so that it will all be searchable by studio, performers, date, tags etc. It makes finding the remaining duplicates much easier as it creates it's own preview images and you simply list videos by length and then scroll through looking for matching preview images which appear side-by-side most of the time. Yesterday I managed to scroll through roughly 4000 HX videos and eliminate about 200 dupes, saving about 250Gb in about 20 minutes. It also generates perceptual hashes for every video, so is good at recognising dupes and has it's own duplicate cleaner, but i prefer to check manually.