carlmart Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Due to some programs I use, sometimes I have to move from one OS to another, on a different HDD. On each HDD I have different uTorrent installations.What I wonder is how can I access each installation from the other HDD, so I can continue downloading pending files. I don't want to move the files from where they are, or copy them on the other HDD, as that would be a waste of space. I guess I have to change the downloading place, but I can't do that after loading uTorrent, as that might make me lose what I already downloaded. That already happened once to me. How do I change that setup without loading the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 You are joking, aren't you? Please tell us it's not a serious question.HOW, HOW, HOW, would you even HOPE to tell each instance of a BitTorrent client which pieces have already been "fetched"????You would HAVE to run an integrity check on EVERY job in EVERY client, EVERY time each one started up.At a push you could (maybe) do that with seeding but certainly not with downloading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 No, I am not joking. I honestly thought there might be a way, and I wondered which it might be. Emule already does that, and as long as you use the same install on both accesses it identifies where the files are and corrects the downloading directory, which letter it is and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 eMule doesn't use the BitTorrent protocol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Of course it does not, and it does have a lot more limitations.Once again, I thought it might be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted October 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 Can you tell me how should I proceed if i want to move the uTorrent directory to another HDD and continue downloading from it all unfinished files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 31, 2012 Report Share Posted October 31, 2012 RTM and follow the migration guideHelp -> Contents -> Chapter 03. Advanced Guides -> Migrating to another location -> Moving Torrent Contents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2012 Sorry, but what RTM are we talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted November 1, 2012 Report Share Posted November 1, 2012 Read The Manual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2012 Sorry, I didn't know there was any manual. Will go read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsoran Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 Might be able to use hardlinks to do this if you're on Vista/7, I think those allow hardlinks between drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 My problem is that right now I'm handling my downloads from XP, and would like to bring here a large file that is 85% down in my Windows 7 installation. Seeding is not too large, so I have to wait until any eventual seeder gets on line to continue downloading, and I can't afford waiting there just for that. So my question was a general one, but also an specific one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted November 3, 2012 Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 You should be able to migrate it over but you will HAVE to run a re-check before the job is started just so that each and every instance of the uTorrent client(s) will be able to update it's own resume.dat file and keep track of the pieces that the other instances have 'fetched'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2012 OK. So I copy the file onto the XP's uTorrent download files directory, and then run a re-check, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 First try didn't work. I just copied the file from uTorrent's W7 directory to XP directory. The file does not show when I open XP's uTorrent, so I can't try any re-check. What I did now was look at the options I have on the downloading file, and there is an option called "Transfer to". Maybe that's what should be used to move file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Transfer to: is for when you have any "Devices" defined and you want to move the job to a different device.You will have to "tell" each instance that the job exists, by also copying the .dat files into each installations own %appdata% location, the resume.dat especially, as that contains the meta data for the current jobs.Also when you add a job to one instance you WILL have to repeat that procedure. So the likelyhood of a disaster occuring on one of these transfers is rising at an exponential rate.Still thinking it's a good idea?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 No, it's not a too good an idea, but if I go back to XP I might have to do it. The major risks are losing all the files that downloaded and are still seeding on the XP install, as I guess .dat file can't be edited or merged with the other, can it?I haven't found any manuals yet explaining how to do this I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Yep the major risk is that in ANY one of the transitions all of your downloaded files are set back to zeros.You can edit the .dat files with BEncode, but as for merging them .... Help(F1) -> Contents -> Chapter 03 -> Migrating to another location Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solnyshok Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 why is this discussion about 2 instances. Why not run one portable instance on one drive if it is accessible from both OS'es? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlmart Posted November 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 OK, How would it be that portable instance?The file I'm interested in is rather large and with very few seeders, so I wouldn't want to lose it. I need a very safe way to do the move, if possible not affecting the original W7 files, data and .dat. I have already copied the data file to the XP uTorrent directory, so how should I proceed now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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