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Windows 7 pro updated
Port forwarded properly
https://canyouseeme.org/ says it can see my service on the port I manually opened.

the log file just has a list of all the torrents that were restored
upload icon still yellow on the bottom left.

next step??

ISP may be doing deep packet inspection and blocking BitTorrent traffic.
(A VPN or proxy might get around that...but will likely be firewalled.)

Either that, or the torrents are "dead" and there's no peers/seeds to connect to you!