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I inadvertently moved my files from my PC's destination folder and realized my mistake then quickly move them back to the same place. My torrent site's 'Required' then went from 20 to 40. All the files are again seeding in the proper destination folder as indicated by qBittorrent.  When I moved my files could qBittorent have re-download the files it couldn't find, creating an exaggerated download ratio?  Is there anything I can do? Is there any way I can get that ratio back to 0.20 which it was before I screwed up and moved the files. Hope this is clear. I am not that proficient in all things torrent, obviously. Thanks.

You're probably screwed with nothing you can do about double-downloading those torrents.

qBitTorrent is VERY picky about not finding torrents and trying to redownload them.
Got to be really careful now when restarting qBT and quickly stopping torrents that go from 'seeding' to 0% complete and redownloading.

I would just rent a seedbox for a week or two, maybe a month. If you pay attention to it, you can build a buffer so large, it will outlast you and even your children.
Seriously, best solution for outdated sites that still rely on silly things like raw ratio. (which is often faked, cheated, buffered with servers...thus completely useless)