Hello!

A few weeks ago I attempted to upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to the new 7.10. Basically, it died and I can't log in properly. Rather than attempt to fix it, I decided it would be much cleaner to order the new DVD (I don't have a torrent client on my windows partition, and this way may be quicker) and start from scratch. I won't lose much because all of my important files and settings were kept on a separate partition.

Anyway, the one thing I don't know how to do is to transfer my old KTorrent data in order to keep using it as I was, as if nothing happened. To clarify, I want to install the new OS, install KTorrent, and then move old settings to their respective folders so when I open it for the first time it will resume my current downloads at the point they were before I tried the OS upgrade.

I just need to know what folders and files to save and replace - my actual torrents are already on my shared fat32 partition.

I have read in another discussion that I may need to get some things from $HOME/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/ , but are there any files I should not transfer from here? - such as OS specific settings or something. Are there additional settings stored elsewhere I need to look for?

Thank you for any help you can give me. I hope this upgrade goes smoothly.

*crosses fingers*

EDIT: If it helps, I believe I may have upgraded to KTorrent 2.2.1 before the OS upgrade attempt.

I have read in another discussion that I may need to get some things from $HOME/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/ , but are there any files I should not transfer from here?

There shouldn't be anything in there you need to remove. If you want to keep all your settings get this file

$home/.kde/share/config/ktorrentrc

And then obviously you need your actual torrent data in the correct place where you had it saved previously.

Good Luck
Jeremy

bassmadrigal wrote:Good Luck

Thanks for the help!

I'll keep this discussion posted once I've done the reinstall. Hopefully it will be of use to someone else.

After a reinstall of Kubuntu 7.10 I began my attempt at fixing ktorrent 2.2.1. Here is what I have done:

1. Replaced these files, while keeping a .old version of each:

/Home/.ktorrent.lock
/Home/.kde/share/config/ktorrentrc
/Home/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/*

2. Make absolute certain that my share folder was exactly the same (case sensitive). It is at "/share/torents/*" and the files have not been touched at all since the program last ran.

When I start ktorrent I get the list of downloads and uploads displaying correctly and my old settings are there. Success, I thought, but then I tried to start one of the downloads to make sure it worked. I got the following error:

"Several data files of the torrent "TORRENT_NAME" are missing, do you want to recreate them, or do you want to not download them?"

or

"The file where the data is saved of the torrent "TORRENT_NAME" is missing, do you want to recreate it?"

(where 'TORRENT_NAME' is the name of the torrent)

I think which message comes up depends on whether the torrent is a single file or a folder with multiple files. I select 'cancel' as I don't want to destroy my old data files and start over.

The only thing I did to alter any of these files is when I transferred the settings files and folders from my Home folder I changed the permissions (chmod 777 -R) in order to move them properly (it was over a week ago and I can't remember why I actually did that now). I didn't think this would have any effect on the running of the program, but it's the only change I have made at all. My login name is exactly the same, too.

Does anyone have any idea what I should try to get this working?

I seem to have fixed this issue.

I decided to take a look at the /Home/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor* folders to see if there was anything missing. I didn't know what I was looking for, so I manually restarted/recreated one of my torrents which were at 0% anyway. I found its tor* folder and noticed it had a link in the cache folder.

This gave me an idea which I checked and was surprised that it worked.

Here are the steps:

1. Open ktorrent
2. Right-click on a torrent and select "Open Directory -> Data Directory"
3. Right-click on the same torrent and select "Open Directory -> Temporary Directory"
4. Select all the files in the first (data) folder and move them to the second (temporary) folder. When prompted, choose to only create a link.
5. Close both folder windows.
6. Repeat for all torrents.

I don't understand how this works exactly, but it looks as though the links in my cache folders had disappeared, or something. A few torrents had folders within folders and I had to manually open each and create more links, and some torrents didn't work the first time until I played around with them a bit.

Hope this information comes in use for someone else one day.