Preserving torrent data

[jbm]

Soon, something has to be done with this computer which I have been
putting off for more than a year. Either it has to be restored to it's
factory state, or that plus install Windows 10.

I'm using uTorrent 3.4.3, which for some reason has installed itself in
C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent. Why it went there I have no
idea because I let the initial installation run its natural course.

After cleaning the machine out, I want to restore uTorrent to its
current state, with some of the completed, and all the uncompleted
torrents intact and ready to download/upload as now. Some of the
completed stuff is pretty rare, and on the occasions I activate them,
someone jumps in and takes them off me, probably because no one else is
making them available.

How do I go about this? What do I need to copy? And how do I copy the
saved files back into the uTorrent folder - before or after installing
or running the program? What happens if it decides to install into a
different folder or root directory? Any help would be very gratefully
received.

jim

[Hop-Frog]

If you have a *.TORRENT file for everything, and you have all the
downloaded files (complete or incomplete), just save those files to another
drive before you wipe the one they're on.

After the computer is back up and running, and uTorrent is reinstalled,
click on the *.TORRENT file. The client will behave like you're starting a
new torrent for the first time. When it asks where to save the download,
point it to the same folder where the previously downloaded file is--it
doesn't matter whether this is the same path as before or something new.
The client will recognize that a file with the proper name is already
there, check it to see how far along it is, then resume where you left off
(either downloading or seeding).

There's nothing you need to do in \AppData\Roaming\uTorrent, because that's
just the application, not the torrent data. With this method, you *will*
lose the information on (for example) when you added the torrent, your
share ratio, etc., but that's unimportant. If something like a share ratio
IS important, it's kept by the tracker--your client's calculation is
ignored.

[jbm]

Post by Hop-Frog
If you have a *.TORRENT file for everything, and you have all the
downloaded files (complete or incomplete), just save those files to another
drive before you wipe the one they're on.
After the computer is back up and running, and uTorrent is reinstalled,
click on the *.TORRENT file. The client will behave like you're starting a
new torrent for the first time. When it asks where to save the download,
point it to the same folder where the previously downloaded file is--it
doesn't matter whether this is the same path as before or something new.
The client will recognize that a file with the proper name is already
there, check it to see how far along it is, then resume where you left off
(either downloading or seeding).
There's nothing you need to do in \AppData\Roaming\uTorrent, because that's
just the application, not the torrent data. With this method, you *will*
lose the information on (for example) when you added the torrent, your
share ratio, etc., but that's unimportant. If something like a share ratio
IS important, it's kept by the tracker--your client's calculation is
ignored.

Tanks for that Hop-Frog. Much as I thought it might be.

Just for your information, all the *.TORRENT files are in the root of
the directory I quoted, along with all the program files and
sub-directories. Strange that ALL the '.TORRENT files that have ever
been created are still in there, even though the torrent and all data of
a lot of them has been removed from the main program. Completed data
downloads are immediately saved to an external drive, so they are safe.

jim

[Hop-Frog]

Post by jbm
Strange that ALL the '.TORRENT files that have ever
been created are still in there, even though the torrent and all data
of a lot of them has been removed from the main program.

uTorrent has a setting that specifies whether and where to save a copy of
the torrent file. You can set it to any path. Just look through the
settings pages and it should be easy enough to recognize.