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Want to move 'new downloads' directory designation


tyciol

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Basically because of having installed a lot of games and stuff, I'm falling short on room in my main C drive, and I would like to have files I'm torrenting stored on my other drive which has more space.

The main problem is that since I have partially completed torrents at C:/Downloads right now, I don't know how to do this without messing everything up. I want uT to recognize these partials, as opposed to creating new ones.

Is there a guide on a way to make this change without screwing everything up? I wanted to check if it's okay before trying it.

I was thinking, if I stopped all the torrents (but not deleted) and then closed the program, moved the Downloads folder to my other drive, reopened uTorrent and changed the designation to the new directory... would that fix it? Would the program detect and resume the partials? Or am I underthinking it and it'd still mess up?

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That's what I want. The usual download directory doesn't have enough room on the disk for a large torrent, but I am seeding many torrents from the original folder.

There seems to be a terminology problem here, with the word torrent being used both for the .torrent file and the normal files associated with it. Or am I wrong?

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The .torrent only contains what and how files are downloaded.

If you want to move everything, you stop the torrent and then move the folder where you want and then you relocate it within µTorrent on the stopped torrent by right clicking and choose Advanced > Set Download Location.

Also, use common sense and choose correct folder.

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There seems to be a terminology problem here,

There is some confusion yes.

'torrent' really refers to the data payload'

the .torrent file (and the magnet info) is the 'metadata' or metainfo

and once the metadata is loaded onto the client it is refered to as a 'job'.

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