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I have Vuze on one system with a download that will take weeks. Have a second system that I am moving Vuze to run on more permanently. I am hoping to use UNC paths to point the new instance on a different system to shares on the other system so all the downloads are saved there still. New instance is a small VM and don't want the files saving local. If I wanted to move a torrent from one computer to another, can I do this? Was wondering if I opened the torrent in the new system and it's settings were pointing to the same files on the share, if it would resume where the other instance left off.
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It depends on whether or not you are using the 'piece reorder mode' for your files (Tools->Options->Files: Append data to files as downloaded...) - if this is the case then the data is jumbled up until completed and pointing a 'new' torrent at the jumbled data won't work well (having said that, if the 'new' one also has that mode enabled then I think Vuze tries to recover things as best it can)
If you're not using that mode then you should be able to point it at the same location and run a 'force recheck' - if Vuze insists on creating a "-1" target instead of re-using the save location then you'll need to either re-target the files or mess about to get the data in the 'right place'
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12-08-2016, 01:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-08-2016, 02:39 PM by jriker1.)
Thanks parg. I have append data to files as downloads... unchecked so that's good. With your second part, do I need to load in the original torrent and "point it" to the same location or is there a manual step to add this I should be following?
EDIT: I ended up loading the torrent in the new client. Came up with 0% complete. Double clicked on the torrent and it jumped right to the folder where the files were on the old one so that was positive. I'm doing a forced check right now and at 40%. Not sure if it shows nothing until done, however so far still 0% complete and nothing showing any percent done individually in the Files list.
EDIT2: I finished the forced check. Still shows 0%.
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Think I figured it out thru a lot of clicking. The name of the torrent is different than the folder it is stored in and Vuze kept trying to create a folder based on the original torrent name. So when I would direct it to where the torrent files were, it would immediately create another folder at the top or within the existing folder with the original torrent name. I had to rename the torrent to what the folder is, and then even when I pointed it to the files it wouldn't work. Think in the end I also had to point it one folder above the folder the torrents were in and then it self started to recheck and find content.
JR
