I have been downloading 4 torrents , total 9Gb , for the perpose of seeding the new Mandriva 2006.
Now my installation crashed on me, badly, but I have mandriva2005 installed on another partition, which works well. So does Azureus on this partition.
I had saved my downloads in another partition on the same HD and have a copy of that directory on the 2nd HD.
Question:
How do I make Azureus recognizing my downloaded torrents so that they are ready for seeding.
Obviously, I have tried a number of things, but it seems that I have some way to go before I understand whats going on.

For Mandriva fans: the seeding of the new Mandriva 2006 via bittorrent will start on Thursday.

thanks for any help.

You'll have to open the torrent with Azureus. When it asks you where to save the file, you'll just have to select the directory where the file is in. (If the torrent contains a directory, you'll have to use the parent directory). In other words, if you download a torrent twice and save both in the same location, Azureus will re-use the old files.

Another method would be just to let Azureus create the files anew in any location, then quit Azureus, then replace the files Azureus created with the already downloaded ones, then start Azureus, then right click on the torrent in Azureus and do a 'Force Re-Check'.

Thanks a lot.
I took the second suggestion.
It works like a charm.

But I would like to add some thing to your tip.
You wrote: "replace the files........."
I think this should read " overwrite "
first I stupidly deleted the newly created directories and " replaced" them with the full ones.
Didn't work.
Then I overwrote them, ...........magic !

Again, thanks a stack

If that didn't work, then what you had were differently named files (most likely a uppercase/lowercase or encoding issue, or the torrent was changed).

Whatever it was, it is to late to check back on it, as when all was working again , I cleaned up whatever mess I had made.
However all is functioning well.

However, after the seeding is finished in about 4 weeks time, I will try this again, purely as an exercise.
I don't want to take the risk now, as I have committed myself to be online for at least 3 weeks.
Thanks a lot again