Deluge
Hello Deluge community,
I have a dedicated windows platform running Deluge. Last week it was Deluge version 1. I decided to upgrade this to version 2. This platform has a dedicated 8Tb drive (f:) holding about 900 torrents. Some of them rare and sought after. I installed Deluge 2.2 on this machine, but I can’t get it to pick up the existing torrents and start seeding them. I’m thinking that I don’t have Deluge set correctly and the file structure is probably not right. I expected Deluge 2.2 to pick up and continue seeding but it didn’t.
The folder structure looks like this:
c:
users
deluge
appdata
roaming
deluge
state
The state folder contains records:
torrents.fastresume
torrents.fastresume.bak
torrents.state
torrents.state.bak
and then the 900 torrent records.
I’ve set the downloads folder and “move completed torrents” to f:. When I start Deluge it finds the torrents but begins to download every torrent to c:\downloads. I expected Deluge to just start seeding everything or perhaps start to re-check them all but I can’t get there.
Is there any way to start deluge in a paused state?
Any suggestions?
Deluge 1.3 to 2.2 problems
Re: Deluge 1.3 to 2.2 problems
Please read this before you start doing anything, as it may give you ideas or bring other information you wish to share that may provide other solutions. First thing you should do before ANYTHING else is check if you have an archive folder in your /config with backups made from ungraceful shutdowns, and stop Deluge and make a backup/copy of your CURRENT state folder in case anything goes wrong and you want to restart the process.
First, you would need to pause all the torrents (which may likely have been changed due to your options being reset to the default download directory during your migration to 2.x) - I would then go and delete all the partially downloaded files located in C:\downloads so it doesn't move those files/overwrite other files when we do the next step.
Next, with the paused torrents that point to c:\downloads with no valid files of any type or size, recheck them all - it should only take a minute or so since there are no files. They will all end up at 0%
Following this, you can highlight all 900 and hit Move Download Folder and point them at the F: drive (whatever the folder is, and I'm assuming that the downloads all reside in one downloads path, if they don't you'll need to seperate this into a group of the torrents on F:\tv and do a group of F:\movies, etc.
After you move the download folder, you will still have a bunch of torrents pointing at the data correctly, but at 0%.
Then just tell it to Recheck them.
This _WILL_ take quite some time, given your 900 torrents, but unless you have the original state folder (perhaps in the archive folder if you had any ungraceful shutdowns, a backup may have been made at some point and you can check the date of the file's mtime to know when it was made) then we are kind of in a situation that rechecking all of them is a must to return to normal operations)
First, you would need to pause all the torrents (which may likely have been changed due to your options being reset to the default download directory during your migration to 2.x) - I would then go and delete all the partially downloaded files located in C:\downloads so it doesn't move those files/overwrite other files when we do the next step.
Next, with the paused torrents that point to c:\downloads with no valid files of any type or size, recheck them all - it should only take a minute or so since there are no files. They will all end up at 0%
Following this, you can highlight all 900 and hit Move Download Folder and point them at the F: drive (whatever the folder is, and I'm assuming that the downloads all reside in one downloads path, if they don't you'll need to seperate this into a group of the torrents on F:\tv and do a group of F:\movies, etc.
After you move the download folder, you will still have a bunch of torrents pointing at the data correctly, but at 0%.
Then just tell it to Recheck them.
This _WILL_ take quite some time, given your 900 torrents, but unless you have the original state folder (perhaps in the archive folder if you had any ungraceful shutdowns, a backup may have been made at some point and you can check the date of the file's mtime to know when it was made) then we are kind of in a situation that rechecking all of them is a must to return to normal operations)