My aim was then to migrate Deluge from Ubuntu onto a Windows PC.
I had kept my torrents on a USB device formated as Ext4 mounted at /media/8tb. The issue was how to get the Windows Deluge client to read the torrent info from the /media/8tb path.
Here are the steps I ran through to achieve that.
- 1 In Ubuntu grab a copy of .config/deluge and place somewhere safe
- 2 Boot into windows and Install Ext2Fsd from http://www.ext2fsd.com/ and then do the same for Link Shell Extension from http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... l#download
- 3 In Ext2Fsd give the USB drive a drive letter and make sure you can browse to them in My computer, try writing and then deleting a test file to it.
- 4 Created C:\media folder on my Windows HDD
- 5 Used Link Shell Extension to create "Symbolic Link" into C:\media from the mounted USB drive and then renamed the created folder to 8tb
- 6 Loaded torrents.state and torrents.fastresume intoe a program like Notepad++ and replaced each instance of /media/8tb/ with c:/media/8tb/. Save the files.
- 7 Open core.conf in Notepad++ and change the following line as a precaution "max_download_speed": 1.0, This will stop Deluge trying to re-download the world if we've got something wrong somewhere.
- 8 Copy the entire Deluge folder into ..\AppData\Roaming\deluge or wherever you have it stored replacing an existing folder if you have one already.
- 9 Start Deluge as normal!
Obviously your path will be different from mine so pay attention when changing!
Please Note: This worked for me, I'm not guaranteeing that it's also going to work for you!