Sunday, 28 August 2011

Moving incomplete µTorrent downloads to a different computer

If you use µTorrent, you might have wondered how to move your download to a different computer, without losing the progress of the downloads which have started but have not completed. Now, here is how you can do it.

Prepare the files for transfer:
  1. Shutdown µTorrent
  2. Copy the contents of %appdata%\utorrent folder to a portable storage device (USB drive, etc). Actualy, the most important file which is required is resume.dat. But I would suggest copying the entire folder, just for simplicity's sake.
  3. Copy the folder/files in which the partial downloads of the in-progress downloads are to the portable storage.
  4. Copy the files from (2) to %appdata%\utorrent on the second computer
  5. Copy all the files from step (3) to the second computer
  6. Download BEncode Editor from https://sites.google.com/site/ultimasites/bencode-editor
  7. Using BEncode Editor, edit the resume.dat in %appdata%\utorrent by using the function 'find/replace' to change the path or drive letter if the destination path of the partially downloaded file has changed.
  8. Start up µTorrent and the download should continue from where it left off on the older computer.
Enjoy!!!

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