[Solved] How do I change my torrents' download directory?

[opaacity]

Hi,

I recently purchased a hard drive, and decided I would like to seed my existing torrents from that (to save space on my internal). I don't have all of the .torrent files for my torrents, so it's not as easy re-opening those into transmission, and changing the directory from there. Is there a way to change the download directory for my already seeding torrents?

Thanks

EDIT: I figured it out. You can change it by clicking the gear icon on the individual torrents.

[x190]

Hi,

I recently purchased a hard drive, and decided I would like to seed my existing torrents from that (to save space on my internal). I don't have all of the .torrent files for my torrents, so it's not as easy re-opening those into transmission, and changing the directory from there. Is there a way to change the download directory for my already seeding torrents?

Thanks

EDIT: I figured it out. You can change it by clicking the gear icon on the individual torrents.

> .torrent files are kept in ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/Transmission/Torrents

[norm158]

In my copy of transmission (1.76), clicking the Inspector window's gear icon doesn't give any way to change the directory. The path to a downloaded file is shown when you click the window's Info icon, and you can click and drag to select that path, making it appear that you can edit it, but in fact you can't.

So does anybody know how to change the path to a downloaded seeding file? What I'm looking for is how to move downloaded files to several alternative folders, not just one, and still be able to seed the files.

Thanks

[x190]

Transmission>File>Move Data File To...

Not sure what you mean by 'several alternative folders'. You need to seed from one location at a time per torrent, altho' different torrents can be in different locations provided Transmission knows the pathway to the data files.

[norm158]

Hi X190,

Thanks for responding.

You wrote:

"Not sure what you mean by 'several alternative folders'. You need to seed from one location at a time per torrent, altho' different torrents can be in different locations provided Transmission knows the pathway to the data files."

Sorry I wasn't clearer. Try this:

I've got a default download folder named "Downloads", which contains lots of torrents and, for each torrent, a corresponding downloaded data file. All the data files are currently seeding.

I want to move all the data files out of the folder "Downloads". Some of them will move to "newfolderone", others will move to "newfoldertwo", and the rest will move to newfolderthree. (So now all I have left in "Downloads" are all the torrents.) I want all the data files to continue seeding.

My questions is: What do I have to do, and exactly how would I go about doing it, in order for all the data files to continue seeding?

Thanks in advance for any help

[x190]

Select the torrent you want to move in Transmission and use the 'Transmission>File>Move Data File To...' option to choose the new data location you desire. Transmission will copy it over to this new location and will be able to seed from there. This option is also available by clicking on the icon on the left side of the torrent in Transmission [EDIT: In my souped-up 2.21+ version, I see this should read "rt-click on the torrent in Transmission"].

[norm158]

Great directions! Thanks!

[LILBonsaii]

THANKS SO MUCH for the info! I have been trying to figure this out for the last couple days!!! And all this time I thought my torrents were only available in the "downloads" folder. WooooHoooooo!!

[x190]

THANKS SO MUCH for the info! I have been trying to figure this out for the last couple days!!! And all this time I thought my torrents were only available in the "downloads" folder. WooooHoooooo!!

Happy Days are here again!