Thanks for your reply, DreadWingKnight. I checked preferences -- DHT was already enabled. I'm fine with being patient, but as far as I understand the problem, nothing is going to download, no matter how long I wait, because there's no .torrent file for the data in my dot.torrent files folder. More @Wikipedia
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