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How does transmission store information about torrents?
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:44 pm
by eugene2k
I'd like to move the files I'm seeding to a different directory. AFAIK one needs to edit paths to the files/directories transmission is seeding. Where and how are those paths stored?
Re: How does transmission store information about torrents?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:46 am
by fahlmanc
I use transmission-gtk, and I can change the directory it looks for a torrent's files in the torrent's resume file: ~/.config/transmission/resume/torrentname, which is a b-encoded file (so use a hex editor, and know enough of the rules of b-encoding), but I don't know of a way to change the file names and have transmission recognize them.
Transmission is a little primitive with regards to paths and file names. Other programs are better in this regard.
Re: How does transmission store information about torrents?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:06 am
by eugene2k
Thanks, that helped. Strangely, I missed the string with the path when I looked into those files before posting
Re: How does transmission store information about torrents?
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:16 pm
by bkp
In addition to the great info from fahlmanc, you can use this Windoze app to edit the path:
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php ... 92#p367692
(v0.7x works fine under Wine)
... or, for the full thread ...
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306
WARNING!
Do not edit anything other than the 'destination' unless you REALLY know what your doing!
(And backup your .resume file before editing in case you ph^ck it up.)