How to Transfer Seeds from qBitTorrent to Transmission Macos (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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I have a MacOs running as a sort of seedbox seeding 70ish torrents. But macos qbittorrent is buggy and means that for various reasons I have to restart the client every couple hours so or the connection breaks. Which is inconvenient.

Transmission macos doesn’t have this problem. So it’s much better long term. Tho I’m not sure how I can tranfer all the seeding files to transmission. Manually sounds like a nightmare, and even then, I tried one and for some reason it wouldn’t verify my downloaded files and insisted on redownloading the torrent from scratch. Even though I had made sure I was pointing to the correct directory. This may be because I’ve renamed files in the past (don’t really remember) but qbittorrent seems to have no issue with it.

This is complicated by the fact my torrents are in different directories or “nestled”. Like my directory looks kind of like

>TV Shows
>> Futurama 
>>> Futurama S01 [Torrent]
>>> Futurama S02 [Torrent]
>> Planet Earth III [Torrent]
> Movies
>> Up [Torrent]
>> Star Wars
>>> Phantom Menace [Torrent]

Edit: Thanks for the replies. Seems about what I figured. I guess every time i open my client I’ll have fun moving 2-3 torrents over.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Last time I did something like this, I grabbed the .torrent file from the completed archive, told it to start downloading it again. It recreated the folder structure and names it expected, then I stopped it, and put the completed files back where it was expecting to see them with the names that it had just created. I started it again to let everything force check. Then I use the torrent client to move the files to where I wanted them.

I've honestly given up one having my torrent* client put the files in their ultimate locations. I just have it make copies of the completed files and leave the torrents the hell alone.

*edit: dictation shenanigans

[-] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Even if you don't have the .torrent file (I use magnet links), most torrent clients should be able to generate them. I also used qbittorrent to move the files from my old HDD to the new one when I upgraded, if you do this before you add the torrents to Transmission OP it should work