Moving Directories

[hifidelity]

As the partition of my HD I was using was filling up I moved the folder I use for torrents ( both the .torrent files and the actuals files downloaded) from one drive to another with no issues. However I now will nor share any of the existing torrents and if I try and select the .torrents it trys and downoad them again.

I have been into options, preferences and input my new destinations

Any help or have I lost the "links" so cant share those files

[DreadWingKnight]

Did you try setting the download location on the moved torrents?

Are you trying to open without default save?

[hifidelity]

Yes

Origonally I had the following file structure

In E:

Downloads

--> completed downloads

so the .torrent files were in downloads and the completed files in "completed downloads" under their own directories

As E was getting full I moved the master folder to D:

I changed the preferences to look at D ( and the correct folders)

It has not picked up the torrents and if I open them in utorrent it tries and re-downloads the files

[DreadWingKnight]

You gave it the wrong location if you chose the directory above the torrent's data when you set the download location.

Changing the preferences does NOT change the destination for already loaded tasks.

[Ginger13]

Pardon my popping in, but this is the problem I've been searching for a solution on too. I've gone through all the FAQ I can find and Searched already.

So what location should we be giving? I used the 'set download location' option as instructed elsewhere to the new drive & folder where I had copied the partial files, when that didn't work I re-set to the original file & location but it can't find them there either! It's taken six months to reach 70%, PLEASE tell us there's a way to get uTorrent to recognise the existing files?

Even restoring the system didn't do anything.

I also need to move the program itself to a new drive, can it be moved or updated without losing current torrents? The newest version couldn't download when I tried a couple of hours ago, I haven't found any mention of what it does to previous versions when it updates and it's so touchy!

I Really appreciate some assistance, preferably straightforward, I'm no computer whiz; sorry if this is a bit long.

[cruzin55]

In following the discussion regarding the changing of directorys, I have followed the suggested advice, however, I still get the error msg saying that the files can not be found in the original directory. They are not in the original dir any more. so how do i let the tracker know the newly changed path, which is in another dir?

[jewelisheaven]

Stop the torrent, right click, advanced "change download location". You MUSTselect the destination directory for directory (multi-file) torrents. Otherwise it will show 0.0%.

After selection it will start re-checking after you start it again. See below for other problems.

[cruzin55]

Thank you very much. Your process is working fine and uTorrent is back working as it should and in a directory where size is not going to be an immediate concern.