Pasting and dragging: the quickest ways to start a transfer

Two shortcuts save a click each. Both work anywhere on the dashboard, without clicking into the bar first.

Paste anywhere

With the dashboard open, press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). If your clipboard holds a magnet link, it is dropped into the bar and the bar takes focus, ready for you to press Fetch. If it holds anything else, nothing happens — pasting a paragraph of text into a page does not fill the field with rubbish.

Drag a .torrent onto the page

Drag a .torrent file from your file manager onto the magnet bar and release. The bar highlights while a file is over it, so you can see the target before you let go.

Why you must verify your email before adding a transfer

Transfers are blocked until the address on your account is confirmed, and the banner at the top of the app will say so.

A new account can sign in and look around, but it cannot start a transfer until its email address is verified. Attempting one returns:

Verify your email address before adding transfers — check your inbox.

Verifying

1. 1Find the message titled “Confirm your gettor email”.
2. 2Open the link in it. That is the whole process — there is no code to type.
3. 3Return to the dashboard. The banner disappears and the bar accepts transfers.

If nothing arrived

• Check the spam folder. A first message from a new sender often lands there.
• Use the resend link on your account page rather than registering a second time.
• Check the address itself on the account page — a typo at sign-up is the usual cause, and it can be corrected there.