Change Of Directory Of Torrent Files

[OriginAlien]

Hi there.

I bought a new external HD specifically for my uTorrent directory as the incomplete section was becoming quite huge.

I have changed my directory of my incomplete's, my completes, and my torrent folder.

I have done this before i am sure, and not encountered this problem.

Upon reloading uTorrent after this file tree change, every torrent is coming up with "Unable to load torrent from d:\BlahBlah\Blah\Torrents ( which is the old directory )

I understand what it is saying, as i have moved the torrents directory the torrents in the list are all trying to access the old directory, but i have made it so that everything is accessable, the new torrents directory has been changed so it should load those same torrents from the new directory should it not?

Essentially, i have close to 2000 torrents. If i was to delete all those torrents from the que, then reload them that would be alot of tiresome boring work that would take days to reload and then reset the directory of where everything is kept.

Is there some way i can have the client acknowledge where the new torrents are and where the files that they have access to are kept without doing this? Or am i going to have to move the torrent directory back to the original place if i dont want to do all that work

Surely there is some way for the client to recognise this simple change without being forced to manually reset everything?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thankyou for taking the time to read this

[Ultima]

Right-click the torrent > Advanced > "Set Download Location"

It's already implemented -- just not for batch torrent moves.

[jewelisheaven]

If I could also point out the utility here for the option Ultima said is not implemented... but is rather easy using his nifty tool Bencode Editor linked in the sig. If you're organized, you can do two replace all operations, one for torrents, one for data. If not you need to keep some /label/* prefix mojo in the replace field.

[chrisdab]

It's already implemented -- just not for batch torrent moves.

Set Download Location for batch files is a feature that is long overdue.

[jewelisheaven]

Edit the resume.dat if you don't want to do all the clicking.

[chrisdab]

BEncode can be error prone and difficult to use as well. I am not asking for 3rd party fixes. I want a feature thats built into utorrent. Redirecting utorrent to a new location for multiple files should have already been built into utorrent.

[DreadWingKnight]

Are you talking the .torrents or the downloaded data?

[jewelisheaven]

The only error when using BFE is PEBKAC.

Changing multiple single-file torrents is a pain currently when the destination is far from the "current working directory". I agree. That's why if I move alot of data I use BFE on resume.dat

[Guest]

I am not sure what the author means, but I was just about to ask whether it is possible to add a possibility to set where the actual .torrent file shall be saved. I use the BEncode editor, but for some unknown reason it doesn't work too well most of the time - I have .torrents saved in specific folders according to tracker they belong to. I have to sort that by editing the resume.dat file, but often the damn files just move back to the default folder! Result - MESS.

I would like it to work that upon opening a new .torrent, there would be another save to option, but for the .torrent only. This would make things SO MUCH EASIER. Shouldn't be too hard to implement too, hopefully

[jewelisheaven]

BFE doesn't do uT specific things. The torrent directory and data directory are pretty well defined in the resume.dat

You can only edit it when uT is closed, if it's still open even if you save the file, uT overwrites resume on close.

The torrent is stored in the torrent storage folder (default in APPDATA, also wherever you set). You don't really want the torrents elsewhere.

If you don't want torrents moving themselves when you don't want them to, turn ON "only move from default folder"