Move torrents

Have you just renamed a directory or moved your storage to a new hard-drive and now all of your torrents need to be updated? By change fastresume file we can skip the reckeck. For more information about fastresume file, see https://www.libtorrent.org/manual-ref.html#fast-resume .

This script does not move any data. Please move them manully first. Please close qBittorrent before running this script.

This script only works on qBittorrent 3.3+ because in that version the location for torrent metadata was moved. Tested with qBittorrent 4.2.1 and Python 3.8 .

Usage

usage: move_torrents.py [-h] -f FIND_STR -r REPLACE_STR -d BT_BACKUP_PATH
                        [-a TORRENT_HASH [TORRENT_HASH ...]]

Find and replace filepaths in qBittorrent v3.3+

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f FIND_STR, --find-str FIND_STR
                        string to find
  -r REPLACE_STR, --replace-str REPLACE_STR
                        string that replaces find_path
  -d BT_BACKUP_PATH, --bt-backup-path BT_BACKUP_PATH
                        path to qBittorrent BT_BACKUP directory
  -a TORRENT_HASH [TORRENT_HASH ...], --torrent_hash TORRENT_HASH [TORRENT_HASH ...]
                        torrent hash

Move all torrents

1. Close your qBittorrent
2. Move your data files
3. Backup your torrents directory (e.g. $env:localappdata/qBittorrent/BT_backup)
4. Run this script with strings you want to replace in data file path
5. Reopen qBittorrent

Move a torrents

Similiar as above but you need to copy hash of torrents from qBittorrent first.

Example

# Backup the BT_BACKUP directory, in case something goes wrong.
$ cp -r "C:\\Users\\Jimi\\AppData\\Local\\qBittorrent\\BT_BACKUP" "C:\\Users\\Jimi\\AppData\\Local\\qBittorrent\\BT_BACKUP_2"

# Install the script's dependencies.
$ pip install requirements.txt

or

$ pip install bencode.py

# Run the script with the three required arguments.
$ python move_torrents.py --find-path "F:\\Anime\\" --replace-path "F:\\" --bt-backup-path "C:\\Users\\Jimi\\AppData\\Local\\qBittorrent\\BT_BACKUP"

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