Help - fresh v.204 install will not see old directories. What to do?

[carl startnow]

Any easy resolution? Is the 'migration' procedure my only option?

I did set the directories locations in the uT app....but nothing.

Thanks.

[moogly]

Changing the paths in Preferences > Directories in µT is not retroactive.

Change the download location for each torrent with the red arrow.

[carl startnow]

That`s exactly what I had to do..unfortunately. What a major waste of time!

If there was ever cause for a uT modification this surely would be.

Thanks moogly

[paintball9]

It shouldn't have affected anything. Are you sure your drive didn't change letters? (maybe unplugging an external and plugging in another device before the external again)

[carl startnow]

Nope. Give it a try yourself to be sure...uninstall your uT app then reinstall it. If you dare.:& )

[paintball9]

It just seems strange that only some people are having this problem. Maybe its an upgrade from a specific build that's not saving the resume.dat files correctly?

Personally I'm using 2.2 so I'm not seeing anything like this anyways.

[carl startnow]

All 'old.dat' files remained...(no bad.dat files)

There was/is a resume.dat file.

[moogly]

There is another solution if you have stored all your torrents in the same main download folder.

You can use the freeware BEncode Editor (http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306) and edit the file resume.dat (the copy before your install) and use the function 'find/replace' as any text editor to replace the path.

Anyway that implies you have a backup copy of resume.dat containing your previous torrent history.

[carl startnow]

Nice one moogly! Thanks.

I wish I knew to save the 'resume.dat' file before I started screwing with what I thought was a second, older uT install seen in my 'Add or Remove Programs' folder.

Damn windows! It told me I hadn`t used that uT .exe since 2009....and a second one said to have been last used earlier this year. I run uT on average once a week! So that`s why I did a full un-install...and sorry I did.

Ha...with all that repetitious key stroking restoring the torrents and files, I made plenty of mistakes. I`ll be searching folders for the rest of my life I think..haaaaaa.

Strange thing too...the torrents that never saw activity in the previous v.204 install, ran to completion as soon as they hit the road in the new install ! Weird.

Shame I can`t just do a 'system restore' and all would be done.

Thanks for the heads up on that BEncode app. i`ll keep it in the vault. ha

Carl.