relocating files after renaming and moving them

[mikey555]

I have a lot of music I'd like to rename and consolidate into different directories, but I'd like to keep seeding it too. It sounds like the 'relocate' feature is what I need, but I haven't gotten it to work successfully yet. When I use 'relocate', one of two things happens for any completed torrent once I move and rename its files, and rename the folder:

- none of the files will be recognized, so the torrent begins downloading at 0%

or...

- the files will be recognized, but only partially. Consistently, the first and last 1/20th of every reconnected file (in terms of its pieces) is undownloaded, but the middle pieces -- the bulk of the file -- is recognized fine.

Is there something I should do to make 'relocate' work?

[mikey555]

I should also mention that using 'set download location' in any combination with 'relocate' doesn't work either.

[mikey555]

bump would love to know if anyone else has experienced something like this.

[Switeck]

Files window/tab -- do Relocate for *EVERYTHING*, then do a force recheck on the whole torrent.

[mikey555]

Files window/tab -- do Relocate for *EVERYTHING*, then do a force recheck on the whole torrent.

it doesn't work. i can relocate each file individually and force recheck, and it still won't work!

[Switeck]

Try the migration guide:

http://www.utorrent.com/documentation/migrate

...If that doesn't work, I don't know what to do.

[mikey555]

OK, I think I figured out the root of the problem.

I've been using another program (mediamonkey) that renames and relocates files, and makes new directories automatically. I then 'relocate' the files in utorrent, but they aren't recognized.

But I got the consolidation to work a different way -- by first relocating the files to a new directory that I had to make, then letting mediamonkey automatically rename them, then relocating each individual file in utorrent and forcing recheck. It works and the torrent seeds.

The question is this: why can utorrent recognize files that it has moved with 'relocate', but not when another program has moved them?

[Andros0]

Sorry to dredge up an old topic but I just want to verify and ask a couple of things. I looked through the forum and couldn't find specific answers.

<Background info>

I'm currently using uTorrent 2.2 (build 23703)

I "perma-seed" many of my files.

Currently, I d/l files onto one HDD and once I have all the files for a certain topic/issue (which may be multiple torrents), I then organize, rename, and move them all to an "Archive HDD" and seed from there.

The way I've been doing this is as explained in this post and in others;

1) Right-click the torrent>Advanced>Set Download Location...>set the new location on Archive HDD

2) Right-click the individual files in each torrent>Relocate...>locate the file on Archive HDD

This does work but I wanted to ask if there was an easier way to do it. Step 2 above can consist of many files and it's rather tedious to go through them all one at a time.

My other question is rather "noob"ish - My renaming of the files doesn't impact how they're received by peers does it? They will still receive the file named as it was in the original torrent, correct? (assuming they don't rename it themselves of course)

Thank you in advance for any reply