To create your own torrents to let others download, you need to create the BitTorrent Meta-Info files and have a tracker server for the torrent files to point to.
BitTorrent uses the tracker server to get information about other clients downloading the file, so it knows which computers to connect to in order to start downloading. For this reason, you need a tracker that will be running all the time. If you start a tracker on your Mac using Tomato Torrent, once you quit Tomato Torrent no one will be able to download anymore!
Use the Generate Torrents command from the File menu to open the torrent generation window.
Every item that you add to the list will have a BitTorrent Meta-Info file generated for it. The name of the generated file will be the same as the item with “.torrent” added to the end of its name. You get to choose where to save the Meta-Info files once you start generating.
Note that if you add a folder to the list, you will create a torrent that downloads every file in that folder.
All torrents you generate will use this URL as the tracker server. If you are setting up your own tracker, see the documentation for setting up a tracker for the tracker URL to use.
Once you’ve added items to the list and have entered a tracker URL, the Generate Torrents button will change to Choose Folder. Click Choose Folder to choose where to put all the generated Meta-Info files in. Once you have chosen a folder, BitTorrent will generate the Meta-Info files.
Select New Tracker from the File menu to create a tracker document. You have to Save the tracker document before you can start the tracker server.
The URL for your tracker server is displayed at the top of the window (both are valid URLs for your tracker).