Synchronizing the uTorrent window and the %AppData%\uTorrent folder

[ZeframCochrane]

Hello everyone.

I'm about to format my HD, and I'd like to know how I can backup the list of torrents that appear in the main uTorrent window. Obviously, I don't mean the associated data (which I have already backed up to an external HD), but only the list of torrents.

I have already looked in the FAQ, but I noticed that in my %AppData%\uTorrent folder there are several torrents that I have removed from the main window, and that I do not wish to back up. I'd really rather not have to go through the long list of torrents in the %AppData%\uTorrent folder to delete all the torrents that I have already removed from the main uTorrent window.

For example, say that I have torrent ALPHA in my main uTorrent window, having removed torrent BRAVO several months ago. In the %AppData%\uTorrent folder I can see both ALPHA.torrent and BRAVO.torrent files. Having hundreds of torrents it would be really annoying to have to remove every single BRAVO torrent from the %AppData%\uTorrent folder!

Thanks for any help.

[moogly]

Just back up the entire flder %appdata%\utorrent.

If you keep your data on your external HD, you should have to edit the file resume.dat with freeware BEncode Editor (check sticky on General subforum) and use the ability "find/replace" to change the path.

About removed torrents, you have to right click on the torrent job you want to delete and choose "Remove and Delete .torrent" or "Remove and delete .torrent + data".

You can set too "Remove" icon from uT icon bar, just right click on it and choose that you want.

[ZeframCochrane]

Oh I understand!

About modifying resume.dat, it won't be necessary, becuase I have stopped all torrents, and I keep them in the list only for "inventory" purposes, just to remember what I have already downloaded. I have no intention of resuming them.

So, for the future, I shall use the "Remove and Delete .torrent" function.

As for now, there is no choice but to go through all the %AppData%\uTorrent folder to manually delete all torrents I don't want to be re-inserted in the main window list once I restore them after the formatting, is there?

How does uTorrent recognize which torrents to view in the main window that are in %AppData%\uTorrent, and which not? Aren't they flagged in any way?

[moogly]

Yes, torrents previously removed from uT have still their .torrent file in %appdata%\utorrent and you need to erase them manually from your HD.

That's why in the future, you have to use "remove and delete .torrent".

uT keeps one copy of each .torrent loaded into the client in folder %appdata%\utorrent by default.

Following the file resume.dat, uT knows the list of torrent jobs present in its main window. The others are just ignored.

To manage better your .torrent files, just set folders in Preferences > Directories.

[ZeframCochrane]

Oh, so, from what I understand, if uTorrent follows resume.dat to remember which jobs are to be displayed in the main window, even if I copy and paste the whole bunch of the .torrent files (even the ones I had removed from the main window), as long as I paste the same resume.dat I copied before formatting, I will still see only the ones I had not removed from the main window?

Continuing with my previous example, if I can't be bothered to delete BRAVO.torrent, and I paste it in %AppData%\uTorrent after formatting along with the ALPHA.torrent file, as long as I paste the same resume.dat, I will still see only the ALPHA job in the main window?

'Cos I have no problem for the .torrents to be still there, as long as they don't show as jobs in the main window.

Thanks for your replies!

[moogly]

Yes. You just have to back up the folder %appdata%\utorrent with .torrents, whatever if .torrents are relative to active or removed torrent jobs.

Old .torrents are just useless if you don't plan to reload them into uT (for a future reseeding or redownloading e.g.) and you can erase them from the HD.

[ZeframCochrane]

Now it's all very clear, thank you very much