Before moving to an SSH/command line solution, I tried to come up with a solution using the GUI tools I had, and didn't come up anything nearly this elegant. If you can't SSH into your machine, or just don't want to, this hint is excellent.
#Torrent mac a normal lost phone torrent
Another solution, if your Torrent site tracks logged in user via IP, is to send a curl command from the home machine with the appropriate cookies attached. The solution for me was in subscribing to the RSS feed at work through Thunderbird, no log-in required once it was set up, so as long as I didn't visit the site in Firefox, my IP was never updated and downloading from home was not a problem. I found that if I logged into the site from work to check up on the new torrents, it updated my IP address, so that when I started up the torrent client from home, it reported an error. This does create an extra challenge when managing everything remotely. I belong to one site that logs your IP when you sign in, so then as long as your torrent client is connecting from the same IP, it's allowed through (and I don't really know that it's blocked otherwise, but I do think the torrent client reports an error). I guess it depends on how the torrent site enforces its membership requirements. Before going Command Line, I was using a much messier GUI solution, but it wasn't nearly as well automated and required me not only to IM myself from work, but to then use VNC to connect to home and finish the process, which is super slow when all your bandwidth is being sucked up by the Bit Torrent client, so kudos for this tip. I do like this solution as a GUI one, though. Another benefit of this is that it lets you check up on the Torrent's progress. I start the whole process out with a "screen" command so that once the torrent starts I can send that screen to the background and use my SSH connection for something else (like downloading another torrent). If I see something I "need," I SSH into my machine, go to the directory where I want to feed to go, and feed my torrent URL into a script that downloads the torrent to my Torrent folder and begins downloading the file to the directory of my choice. Maybe they don't count as OSX hints, but I've been using the command line of BitTornado.
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