I’m looking to move to a different torrent client in EOS and want to keep the current torrents seeding.
I would attempt trying to repoint them to the right location through the program. Otherwise accept the loss of data and restart (this is just what I would do as I don’t torrent much)
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What @smokey said is one of the "general hows”.
Telling us which torrent client could help with the “specific how”.
- Another “general how” is to download the “
.torrent” file again or click the magnet link, then open it with torrent client. - Ensure you choose to download the actual files to the same location on your system.
- The new torrent client should detect that the files are already there, do a scan to make sure it’s the complete file, then start seeding.
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And another method I use for qBittorrent when moving from one installation to the next while still using qBittorrent, and I want my seeding ratio to be “accurately” displayed:
- Locate the config folder(s) on the most up-to-date installation
- Copy them to the config folder(s) on the other installation
- qBittorrent is none the wiser — it thinks it has been seeding the same torrents for the last X days, weeks, months, etc.
With this method, you need to have the exact same username and the exact same mount points if downloading to a specific drive/partition.
This is just for giving myself praise when I check my overall seed ratio. It’s completely unnecessary. 
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Hey. This sounds very promising. May I ask where are the required config folders for your qbittorrent located? I’m pretty sure they are in a similar place on my sys, but don’t really know what to look for 
Remember that the above is very important for this to work.
The config folders are in the usual locations:
.config/qBittorrent
.local/share/qBittorrent
.cache/qBittorrent
The first two need to be copied, while the third is usually an empty folder.
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