[SOLVED] Continuing download from a different client

[imboeschi]

Hello,

I've recently set up Transmission on my Mac and have been downloading quite a few files with it.

I'd like to leave Tranmission running all the time but I'm reluctant to do that since my Mac Pro uses a lot of power.

So I've installed Linux (Debian) and Transmission on an old laptop and plan to leave that running instead.

The problem: I have a number of downloading torrents that I'd love to transfer to the Linux client without having to restart them from scratch.

I've successfully moved the downloading files to an external hard disk which I can read from Linux. What's missing is the state information about the transfer progress. I don't know (a) where Transmission on the Mac actually stores the state information about the downloads and (b) even if I had that information I don't know if it's possible to just copy it from the Mac to the Linux client and restart.

Can anyone shed some light on whether this is possible, and if so, how to proceed?

Thanks

[Jordan]

Hi,

The first thing I'd do is make sure the version of Transmission is up-to-date. I spent quite a while the other day trying to track down an issue for a Debian user, only to find out he was running Transmission 1.22.

Assuming your Mac and Linux versions of Transmission are about the same, you should be able to copy ~/Library/Application Support/Transmission from your Mac setup to ~/.config/transmission on your Linux box. That will be enough for the Linux version of Transmission to get the list of torrents and their stats, so all that remains is to tell Transmission where to find them on the new machine. That part you can do in Transmission 1.70 and newer with the Torrent > Set Location button.

[imboeschi]

Hi,

Thanks very much - that worked perfectly!

Best regards

Chris

P.S. Unfortunately 1.22 is the latest release that Debian's default package manager will download and install, not sure why that is. But later linux versions (appear to) work fine...