Are the TORRENT FILES in my Downloads file?

[iamnotjerry]

 I cannot find where my torrent files were stored. After my PC crash I had to find the torrent files to upload into uT 3.4.5. The only place I found them was in the  Download folder.  Are torrent files in Downloads the actual files or coming from the site?  Appreciate how others store their torrent files and the best way to find them on Windows 10.

Regards-

 

[DreadWingKnight]

%appdata%\uTorrent is where they're stored by default.

[PiusX]

 I cannot find where my torrent files were stored. After my PC crash I had to find the torrent files to upload into uT 3.4.5. The only place I found them was in the  Download folder.  Are torrent files in Downloads the actual files or coming from the site?  Appreciate how others store their torrent files and the best way to find them on Windows 10.

Regards-

If your not sure just look at your utorrent preferences and that will also tell you where they are saved.

[iamnotjerry]

Thank you for the information. I will search my drives.

 

%appdata%\uTorrent is where they're stored by default.

[iamnotjerry]

I put %appdata%\uTorrent in the This PC search bar an received no results. I also did each hard drive, no results.

[DreadWingKnight]

It's not something you put in the search bar. It's something you put in the location bar.

[iamnotjerry]

I found only the last 59 torrents under the download folder. The hundreds more are somewhere on my 5 hard drives.(C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent) I remove the torrents from the tracker when it says torrent already in the tracker. Those torrents say "Error invalid download state then upload the torrent from the download folder. I do a force recheck and it stops after 54-92% depending on the torrent.

[DreadWingKnight]

And once the checks are done, you can start the torrent to get the remaining pieces.

[joshace]

Your torrents are initially in wherever your computer downloads things.. which can be just about anywhere.

When you open your torrent file, Utorrent grabs it and sticks a copy of it in it's own database - which is in your preferences for initial and completed torrents. 

 

Try this to find your torrent files... there are many ways to do it, but this is a brute force way:

 

get to a command prompt (RUN - CMD)

 

type in

C:  {enter}

dir  /s  *.torrent  {enter}

 

if you have more than 2 dozen torrents.. you should add a /p

dir  /s  /p  *.torrent

 

or make a text file out of the results

dir  /s  *.torrent  >  torrentlist.txt

 

 

 

then for each drive you have

substitute the drive letter for "C:"

 

they will probably all be on your C: drive in some hidden directory. 

I'm surprised you are having the problem you describe with version 3.4.5 which is current.  I have found that unlike 2 years ago, the current version recovers from crashes automatically. 

 

 

One suggestion... you mentioned you have 5 hard drives.   You might want to get an 8TB hard drive (they are the cheapest per TB) and move all your files onto one drive (or one small fast master boot drive and one slow massive 8TB slave)