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eton
Luminary
Feb 04, 2013

Restore Transmissions active torrents after reset/reinstall

How to restore Transmissions active torrents after factory reset.
Reinstall Transmission and stop it.
Copy the contents of Transmissons addons-config torrents and resume folders. Of course all files in /media/Bittorrent/Incomplete folder should also be copied from bakup.
Start Transmisson. Enjoy

I used rsync to copy them from backup to the new installation.
rsync -acvh /USB_HDD_1/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/torrents/ /c/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/torrents/

rsync -acvh /USB_HDD_1/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/resume/ /c/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/resume/

Note: Transmisson was very picky with files. First I tried to just copy the whole /addons-config/Transmission folder but it didn't work. Some files had different persmissons, when comparing backup and new. Strange. So just take what's really needed.

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  • And don't forget to enbale watch-dir
    /c/addons-config/Transmission/transmission-daemon/settings.json
    "watch-dir-enabled": true

    Why is this default turned off???

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