rtorrent - torrent directory change, torrent's still pointing to old directory...

**s2cuts** · May 13th, 2012, 08:57 PM

I'm running rtorrent, and have recently done some consolidation on my server, which involved the torrents moving.

Looking at the torrents through rutorrent, they all seem to think the actual data is in the old location. I thought that the new .rtorrent.rc file would point things to the new location, but it isn't. Not for the old torrents anyway. I've created sym links in the old location pointing to the new, but is there a way to globally change where the torrents think the data files are? Is there any sort of graceful solution to this problem?

Thanks for any input.

**Cappa** · May 13th, 2012, 10:40 PM

hmm if all the torrents are in the same folder maybe change the default save path to it... then throw all the .torrent files in the watch directory... it will have to run a hash check on everything again.

Don't know of another way. Should wait for more responses")

**Lefteris** · May 13th, 2012, 11:54 PM

First you have to understand that rtorrent does not controls your downloaded files directly what's important to it is if they are in the right place or not. Basically controls .torrent files that have this information. So you can move your files as soon as the .torrent points to them.

I'm also having problems with that but I think I may have find a way: move your files (using mv) and after that tell rtorrent that these files were moved by pointing the new location. The command xmlrpc will help you do that:

To get a list of methods (there are a lot of them)

xmlrpc localhost system.listMethods

You cand do that using 3 methods:

1) Get a list of your downloads with download_list method

xmlrpc localhost download_list

Result is something like this:
Array of 11 items:
Index 0 String: '8A7490BE5D8F18AD831E111E9553799E56DC8677'
Index 1 String: '1C7C47E71EF5D524AFA5D805C13B7B63B3342072'
Index 2 String: 'AD7E5905DFC96DC9A7B757AFFEEE0F8FE9BF6B00'
Index 3 String: 'AD1FD7FA1DCFFB9C2FB5B3F50CC98A1489871926'
Index 4 String: 'E687EC9EC71E3D8B921CD4CC526B6EFB44157911'
Index 5 String: 'F17F413B3D9A5719026F59DCACFBEE800EB7A23B'
Index 6 String: '605F61DD008423EE2A8CD9AFB6BCADE695CEC63E'
Index 7 String: 'DC50126AA9B0E04EADEDB5BEE966314F60FBB5D8'
Index 8 String: '6793681FF4BFF00606A26F4DE98A7DD6C0C563D3'
Index 9 String: 'F0C38EE5A248A5E82648BF3712864A878964225D'
Index 10 String: '738AAA97EF869804885A693F9EE12A0E5E827C71'

2) Get the name of torrent using d.name method:

xmlrpc localhost d.name AD1FD7FA1DCFFB9C2FB5B3F50CC98A1489871926

Result:
String: 'Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.2011.BDRip.AC3.x264-LooKMaNe'

3) Inform new path of a specific download using d.set_directory method:

xmlrpc localhost d.set_directory AD1FD7FA1DCFFB9C2FB5B3F50CC98A1489871926 /new/directory/

**Copper** · May 14th, 2012, 02:59 AM

The rtorrent configuration file i.e. .rtorrent.rc usually specifies what directory to put new torrents in. But as you are finding, existing torrents have the directory path written into the .torrent file.

If you just have a small number of torrents, you could simply, right click in rutorrent > save to. And choose the new directory. Don't select copy and then choose force recheck. For a larger number of torrents, you can symlink as you have done or you may wish to use a *nix aware text editor to batch edit the directory path in the .torrent files.

**s2cuts** · May 14th, 2012, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by copper

The rtorrent configuration file i.e. .rtorrent.rc usually specifies what directory to put new torrents in. But as you are finding, existing torrents have the directory path written into the .torrent file.

If you just have a small number of torrents, you could simply, right click in rutorrent > save to. And choose the new directory. Don't select copy and then choose force recheck. For a larger number of torrents, you can symlink as you have done or you may wish to use a *nix aware text editor to batch edit the directory path in the .torrent files.

Yeah, I was about to go old school on those .torrent files with sed, but after some testing I couldn't get rtorrent to pick up the torrents properly.

I think I'm relegated to reloading the .torrent files from their original source. Fortunately, I had all of the originals in the old watch directory and had made a copy. Unfortunately, labels and such are going to be gone.

Thanks for the help.

**Lefteris** · May 16th, 2012, 02:45 AM

An alternative I just made/posted: Moving torrent folder in rTorrent/ruTorrent environment (PHP Script)

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