kiophaek Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 I apologize for the awkwardly-phrased thread title, and what I'm sure is a silly question.My situation is this: I am installing a fresh copy of Windows, and would like to preserve my utorrent as it is. Normally I would just copy the %APPDATA%/utorrent folder, but there are around 6,000 torrent files in there, and I don't want to bring all of them with me. I only want to bring the 1,200 that are currently being downloaded or seeded by uTorrent (the rest have been removed, but I foolishly forgot to use "And remove .torrent"). Is there any way to do such a thing? One idea I had was to close and re-open uTorrent, which would make it retrieve all the .torrent files, then I could order the folder by last access date and remove everything that wasn't accessed in that retrieval. But I can't seem to tell Windows to let me sort by last access date.Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer me a tip, or just bothered to read. It's appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 I suppose this would be a roundabout method of achieving what you want:1. Clear your Recycle Bin.2. Exit µTorrent.3. Make a backup copy of your entire %appdata%\uTorrent folder, store it somewhere safe.4. Start µTorrent, and make sure Preferences > Advanced > gui.delete_to_trash is set to true.5. Select all torrents, right-click, Remove And > Delete .torrent, then wait a little bit.6. Exit µTorrent.7. Look in the Recycle Bin, pull out all .torrent files that should now be there.8. Clear all .torrent files from %appdata%\uTorrent8. Copy to %appdata%\uTorrent the resume.dat you should have from following step 3 (preferably, make a copy).9. Copy to %appdata%\uTorrent the .torrent files you had pulled out from the Recycle Bin in step 7.If any of that fails... well, you should have a backup from step 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 OUCH!There needs to be a better way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Well, it's actually not that complex a procedure to perform. I just made it extra verbose to keep it as clear as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 I can do it, you can do it...can 95% of people who use uTorrent do that? ...Even with your step-by-step process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwat47 Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 @Ultima I love you this worked perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott1x Posted May 16, 2010 Report Share Posted May 16, 2010 I have just GOT to say, that is freaking clever!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 How do you load the torrents back? I think I made a mistake somewhere... By step 9 did you mean "restore" option when you right click "Recycle Bin"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Restoring means just "moving". Not the function of Windows trash bin.Here the trash bin is just used as a folder to isolate selectively the .torrent files being used by µT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 "Restore" reworded to "Copy" I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted September 3, 2010 Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 got it. my problem's solved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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