Add a way to edit paths of multiple torrents

[DumbIdiot]

For example, with utorrent and BEncoder you can open the resume.dat and edit every torrent saved in "D:/CommonFolder/UniqueFolder/TorrentName" to be in "G:/CommonFolder/UniqueFolder/TorrentName" at the same time with the search and replace function. Just by editing the first part of the path (in this case just a drive letter change) while retaining the tree structure for each torrent.

If I use the "set location" option in the client "D:/CommonFolder/UniqueFolder/TorrentName" simply becomes the location I choose without any subdirectories.

[thalieht]

Setting (same) path for multiple torrents can be done by using Categories and Automatic Torrent Management on desired torrents.

@evsh should this be closed?

[zeule]

I don't think so: not everyone uses categories.

[slrslr]

I agree with topic starter.

it can be good if qBt have new config file that would be loaded at qbittorent start and updated during run. This file would contain full paths to all files of all torrent payloads and as much other details about each torrent in readable form. So one can use bulk search and replace tools (notepad and its search and replace function) to do bulk actions in torrents configuration. In qbt under each torrrent, i would have option to open some kind of editor where i can do ANY changes of the torrent (examle full paths to torrent payload files) and it would update changes into global configuration file, etc. Another option is some export/import of the qbt torrent list configuration. https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/3797 so i would do search and replace and then import back to qbt.

When having several hundreds of torrents, it is like spending 2 minutes doing search and replace in config file, versus spending couple of hours doing super annoying relocation within qbittorent.

Regarding Automatic Torrent Management (https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/4696), it can be used for reallocating but it would involve me creating category structure same as on my HDD and that would be extremely slow, complicated, uggly. Also i do not think it is good idea to do data transfers of whole HDDs thru qbittorent, rather do it using system tools.

[deant]

With respect slrslr, I don't think they're the same think at all.

THIS wishlist item is about relocating a complete torrent to a new root directory, while retaining local torrent directory structure; and about using search/replace functionality to do that in bulk for multiple torrents.

4071 on the other hand is about independently relocating and/or renaming individual files within a multi-file torrent. By its nature, it's more of a one-file-at-a-time operation.

Both are very useful (arguably essential)... but they aren't the same thing at all!

Also, I'd note that while it's in some ways the most flexible option, editing config files directly should generally be a means of absolute last resort: (a) because of the risk of screwing things up, and (b) because it requires qBittorrent to be shut down while you do it.

[Millichrome]

Any progress on this feature in recent releases?

I am using qBittorrent-nox and batch root directory changes would be really useful during HD upgrades.

[jef]

looking into this...