I would like to import my partially or fully downloaded torrents from an other linux partition. (I would like to remove that partition sooner or later).
The old one is a dapper 64-bit Ubuntu partition with KDE installed. The new one is a gutsy (7.10) 32-bit Ubuntu partition with Gnome and some KDE application such as KTorrent.

Enabled the import plugin and clicked on importing torrent in the File menu.

Attempted to import my folder and got the following error:

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Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''.
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Any idea what's went wrong? Can it be that KTorrent needs some more KDE apps. just not in the dependences?[/code]

Ktorrent requires kde-base and kde-libs and the associated dev packages. I don't believe there are any other kde requirements.

Thx. For the quick reply. Installed those KDe packages, but still can't importing, same message.

I think you are missing some kio stuff, look for packages with kio in the name. Something like kdebase-kio-plugins.

I've installed all reasonable packages that has kio in it's name or in it's description. Exception kdesdk-kio-plugins and kdesvn-kio-plugins, since they don't like each other, but tried both. No change.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=251325&page=2

Tried these suggestions as well. But did not help either.

Seeing that you get this :

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol ''.

What exactly did you select in the import dialog ?

I have not selected anything for the first.
I've selected a folder for the second, where my files are located.
Did i do this wrong?

tkrisz1 wrote:I have not selected anything for the first.
I've selected a folder for the second, where my files are located.
Did i do this wrong?

You need to select a torrent in the first one.

George wrote:

tkrisz1 wrote:I have not selected anything for the first.
I've selected a folder for the second, where my files are located.
Did i do this wrong?

You need to select a torrent in the first one.

Then i don't understand anything. What file should i select there?
The file selector filter does not find any torrentfile in the folder of my downloaded torrents. I took a look at the folder of the the temporary files (on the old partition). Same, no torrentfiles there.

Btw, i have not used KTorrent on this partition yet. Thought to start with importing.

In order for KTorrent to import a torrent, it needs the torrent and the data. It will load the torrent and scan the data you selected, and then you can continue downloading or seeding that torrent.

Oh, i thought the data somehow contains the torrent info and it is enough to import the data.
Are the torrents located somewhere on my computer or should i have to find the torrents on the net again one by one? How can i recognize a torrent file?

KT keeps track of the torrents in your home directory :

In ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/ there should be a bunch of directories named tor0, tor1, tor2 ...

In these directories there is a file named torrent, which is just the torrent file. Of course you will need to know which torrent belongs to which data, you can do that by looking at the cache subdirectory in each torX directory. This will contain symlinks to the data.

Thanks a lot for the help. It's working!

I've been searching for torrent files earlier in that folder. I did not find them, because the default filter (torrent files) did not recognize them.
As i've changed the filter to all files, everything went smoothly.

I paired all my 29 torrents with the files/folders. Btw, it took me 1/2 hour, so I'm lucky not to had 500 torrents.

tkrisz1 wrote:I did not find them, because the default filter (torrent files) did not recognize them.
As i've changed the filter to all files, everything went smoothly.

That is because the temp folders do not contain file extensions for the torrent files.

hi,

I need to import over 150 torents to ktorrent. Is there a way to do it faster then importing one by one?