Hi there,
I've just moved to linux from windows and I want to move my alreadt downloaded files into KTorrent so I can continue to seed.
I've put my files in a folder and set it up as the folder where KTorrent 'Automatically save downloads to'.
But when I load my torrents Ktorrent starts to download the again.

How do I relink a torrent file and its downloaded data?
I may ( I don't recall ) have renamed some of the data files top level folders.

Thanks for any help
Richard

Myeah, the folder names on multi file torrents or the file name inside the torrent must be correct, otherwise KTorrent makes a new folder/file and starts downloading, which is what you're seeing now.

Normally you just put it in the root of the locationpath where it already was.

i just tried that, and ktorrent wrote over the files, so i dont have them anymore it'd be nice if there was just an option to force recheck of the files or something

andersan wrote:i just tried that, and ktorrent wrote over the files, so i dont have them anymore it'd be nice if there was just an option to force recheck of the files or something

This can only happen if the hashes were different, which implies the data was for another torrent.

stoeptegel wrote:

andersan wrote:i just tried that, and ktorrent wrote over the files, so i dont have them anymore it'd be nice if there was just an option to force recheck of the files or something

This can only happen if the hashes were different, which implies the data was for another torrent.

well i'm pretty sure i had the right one, but even if it wasn't, it'd be nice if ktorrent would give a warning or change some filenames to prevent this kind of thing.

But how to re-hash on bogus data then?

the Force Recheck option that you have in utorrent is called Check Data in Ktorrent.

SEAN
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