knikiforuk Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 I just installed a new Windows 8 computer and I'm trying to migrate my bittorrent configuration. First I migrated all of the torrent data to the new box. Then I copied %APPDATA%\bittorrent on the old machine to %APPDATA%\bittorrent on the new box, but when I launch bittorrent, it doesn't find the torrents. I thought I might have the wrong settings directory, so I downloaded a new torrent. I did a quick check and found the .torrent file in the correct place on the new box. I've done a quick check on file permissions and all looks well. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Did you include the resume.dat file in your backup?Is the path EXACTLY the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knikiforuk Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Ah-ha! It turns out that %appdata% on the old machine points to "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data" and on the new machine it's C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming". Two very different paths. Does this mean I'm SOL? Surely to goodness Bittorrent is smart enough to not build everything off a hardcoded directory structure?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 BitTorrent isn't like emule, it doesn't track files based on their individual full-file hash. It NEEDS to know where the files are on your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knikiforuk Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 So how do I tell it where the ".torrent" files are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 You're going to need to re-load them.The steps listed in uTorrent's migration guide will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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