How to Remotely Manage BitTorrent Downloads With Dropbox

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: First of all

   Follow the directions during installation and sign up for your free (2gb) or paid dropbox account. , Locate the dropbox folder. , The best would be uTorrent for Windows and Transmission for Linux/MacOSX. , You can also create a "Torrents" subfolder inside the Dropbox folder and point uTorrent to load torrents from there, as seen in the picture. , Select the Dropbox folder like the above step. ,,,,, upload your desired .torrent file in the Dropbox folder where you set up your torrent client to load .torrents from.
   
   You can access and upload anything to your Dropbox folders from your account at www.dropbox.com ,, (webui works just like a regular desktop program) , The file will be saved to your home computer.
   
   When you get home, it will be there waiting for you! ,
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   Step 2: get Dropbox from www.dropbox.com;

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   Step 3: Download the dropbox client for your platform.

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   Step 4: Now make sure that Dropbox is installed and fully working in your computer.

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   Step 5: make sure that you have a BitTorrent client installed that supports automatic torrent addition.

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   Step 6: in uTorrent

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   Step 7: go to Preferences>Directories and check "automatically load .torrents from"

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   Step 8: select your Dropbox folder as the directory from where uTorrent will automatically load the .torrent file.

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   Step 9: For Transmission

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    Step 10: go to Preferences>Transfers and check "watch for torrent files in..".

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    Step 11: Set up uTorrent webui by following this guide http://www.utorrent.com/documentation/webui

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    Step 12: Set up Transmission webui by following this guide https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/WebInterface

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    Step 13: After setting up the webui (Web User Interface

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    Step 14: remote control of your p2p client from another web browser)

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    Step 15: you can now proceed to using Dropbox to load torrent files.

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    Step 16: Make sure that your home computer is running.

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    Step 17: From a different location (office

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    Step 18: school

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    Step 19: girlfriend's house etc.)

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    Step 20: Now go to the webui of your client and load the torrent file

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    Step 21: which will be available because your client is watching Dropbox for torrents.

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    Step 22: Choose what files you want to download.

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    Step 23: Now download!

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    Step 24: if you want to both download and access files from a remote location

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    Step 25: set up your client to save downloaded torrent files in a folder inside your Dropbox.

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