Posted: 3/20/2008 3:42 AM
Post subject: How to change the folder of .avis and still seed?
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Bezman
Joined: 2/7/2008
Posts: 185
Hey Whilst downloading a bunch of stuff, I've found that torrents took ages to arrive (though today a lot of stuff I'd queued suddenly became available.. odd but off-topic). I wanted to do my little part to improve the situation, so have left a bunch of torrents to be 'seeded'. Now for my actual question - when I first installed bitTorrent, I confused the settings and had everything download onto my desktop. Is there a way to change the position of the files, but still seed them?
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Posted: 3/20/2008 4:41 AM
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superjupi
Joined: 10/15/2007
Posts: 685
The method for doing so can be simple depending on the client, but I always just go with this: Stop and remove all the torrents to the AVI files you want to move. Move all the AVIs to wherever you want them. Reload the torrents one at a time, pick the proper directory, choose 'open for seeding' (or like command). ??? Profit. In the case of Azureus and utorrent, if you move the files from where they're expected to be, the torrents will error out. While in this error state, a new option appears from the right-click menu that lets you specify where the files now reside. It's not really much quicker than my above method, as it only saves you the step of stopping and removing the torrents.
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Posted: 3/20/2008 5:57 PM
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Xkeeper
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superjupi wrote:
In the case of Azureus and utorrent, if you move the files from where they're expected to be, the torrents will error out. While in this error state, a new option appears from the right-click menu that lets you specify where the files now reside.
It may also save the share ratio, if you're a statistics nut who loves those things. (Only a guess...)
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Posted: 3/20/2008 6:41 PM
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Tub
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because, as we all know, the azureus share ratio is such a meaningful value.
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Posted: 3/20/2008 7:14 PM
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Sir_VG
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If you have uTorrent, here's how it works. 1: Stop torrent. 2. Move AVI. 3; Right click on torrent, select Advanced / Set Download Location 4: Select the folder that now holds the AVI. 5: Restart torrent.
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Posted: 3/30/2008 1:11 AM
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Bezman
Joined: 2/7/2008
Posts: 185
A very belated thanks to everyone for the help. I use the official downloader. Are others more stable or something? To be honest, after initially taking the time to cancel them all, I couldn't get the torrents to open up again and was too embarrassed to admit my problem. I think I restarted the computer once or twice since then though and managed to start up the torrents again a couple of days ago. Seems to work fine for the most part!
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Posted: 3/30/2008 1:30 PM
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feitclub
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You can tell Azureus to move the files for you, just right click the torrent and check out Advanced -> Files
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