Transferred files to new HD. Need to set up pointers.

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Here’s the situation:

My C: drive was getting too crowded, so I bought a new, bigger HD; formatted it, and copied all the files to the new drive\folder, “E:\Downloads” .

The files still exist on C: in their original location for now so as not to inconvenience peers presently downloading, but since these are completed files, I would prefer to keep them available a little longer, but on my E: drive. I need the space on my C: drive.

Went into preferences and reset the destination pointer to “E:\Downloads”, where the old, preexisting files have been copied. The program has been correctly told where to store new files. This has been tested and works correctly.

My problem is this. I want to reset the existing files pointer to “E:\Downloads” The files are already there, even though they were originally dowloaded into C: , but I don’t know how to reset the “save location” in the summary to what will eventually be the only location where these files will reside.

Can anyone help?

A little more information: As noted in the topic description above, I am using BitLord 1.1, and the program doesn’t have much in the way of controls. I have found no way to edit the “save location” of an existing file.

Thanks in advance for any help you can bring to bear on this problem.

bart.

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Not sure about something as creakily old as BitLord, but if you were using BitComet, you’d right-click on the torrent, select properties, and change the download location to point to its new home. Make sure it’s running ok, then you can delete the old file.

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personally id switch to bitcomet and its easy to do then

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Yeah BitLord is some really old crap. Update to BitComet 0.70 and you’ll get access to new things like Protocol Encryption, DHT, & PEX.

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Or switch to µTorrent. BitComet is /is being banned on MANY trackers. The reason is that it’s not reporting correctly to the tracker..

Http://www.utorrent.com

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Anyone who’s actually taken the time to learn bittorrent pretty much understands that’s crap, and the people spreading it don’t know what they’re talking about. It wouldn’t be the first time, and I suppose it won’t be the last. As for BitComet being banned, no, not on any major tracker run by anyone who knows what they’re doing. So you can pretty much take a ban as evidence that they don’t, and you’ll probably want to find yourself a smarter tracker.

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I have gotten proof on that it’s not reporting correctly to the tracker. I have talked a long time with the admin from www.nordic-t.org . He told me that it diden’t report correctly. He gave me evidence, and I tried to use µTorrent instead. Yes, he was right. I could see it with my very own eyes.

It’s stupid to hide this major bug. It’s better to put it out in the light, so ~RnySmile~ can fix it, wich he hasen’t done in 15 versions. Maybe he don’t want to fix it, or maybe he is a big amature that actually CAN’T fix it…

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The bottom line is that almost all of the big problems BC was known for have been fixed. But there are stll times where BC will hang on a connection, meaning it doesn’t send a disconnect. Part of this problems is with some forms of tracker software do not properly time out either. So a couple little bugs here and there can and do cause big problems.

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Yeah, but it has some much bigger problems too. Here is the proof:

Please take a look on this screenshot from my account, using BitComet:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5484/nonobq5.png

Let’s take the DVD “Murderball”. You see, the tracker says that it is COMPLETED, wich it isen’t. I have only downloaded 50MB of that DVD (two .rar files and part seeding). It’s the same with the other 3 torrent files.

The problem here is that BitComet say to the tracker: “Wee, my owner has downloaded the DVD 100%”.. “Allright” says the tracker, and puts it under my completed files.

Now, a sys-op is looking at my profile, and thinks: “Okay. This DVD has a filesize on 4.3 GB, but he has only downloaded 50MB… He is CHEATING. (Or ghostleeching for that matter)”…

Other clients dosen’t report this. I have tested this with µTorrent. I downloaded a few .rar files of a torrent 100%, and seeded on those. That torrentfile diden’t show up in my “completed” list. So basically, what µTorrent tells the tracker is: “Okay, my owner has just finish downloading 2 .rar files, of 50MB, on this torrent, but hasen’t downloaded all the files yet”. “Allright”, says the tracker, “then I don’t put this on the “completed” list”…

That’s why many BitComet users are being banned for cheating on closed trackers, because the sys-ops and owners belives that the user is cheating…

THIS is a BIG problem.. For christ sake, fix this s***!

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Thank you all, for the suggestion that I change over to BC.

But that wasn’t the question at all. However I will consider it very carefully.

Now to the real question…

There is a folder in BitLord 1.1 called Torrents; in it are all the .xml files pertaining to each of the threads you are downloading, and bearing the same name as the thread.

In each of those files is a line (in the same place in each file) which points the program to where to download the file and where to look for the bits it uploads.

Load the .xml file in Wordpad and change the relevant bits. Make Wordpad full window, so not too many lines are continued needlessly, and you can see the indentations properly.

The third non-indented line looks somewhat like this:

DownloadBytes=“597568662” DownloadErrorBytes=“0” DataUpload=“148176896” >DataDownload=“594698240” HashPending=“true”>

BaseName=“1st”>

  <FileEntry RelativePathName="Doctor Who (1) 001 An Unearthly Child 1-4.avi" >Size="350846976" StartAt="0" Priority="0"

What you may want to change is the drive letter and the destination folder in the indented line starting

<FileList SaveLocation="

For me this is the way the new line looks:

DownloadBytes=“597568662” DownloadErrorBytes=“0” DataUpload=“148176896” >DataDownload=“594698240” HashPending=“true”>

  <FileEntry RelativePathName="Doctor Who (1) 001 An Unearthly Child 1-4.avi" >Size="350846976" StartAt="0" Priority="0"

If someone else was looking for the real answer to the original question, they now have it. And I suppose that if BitComet also has the same structure of a Torrents directory or folder, then one could also look there and see if this works. (I still have to check out BC.)

As I said above, to all who took the time to answer and who will, or not, bother to look here again, THANK YOU for all your suggestions and I will look into the suggested programs.

Bart.

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Now, a sys-op is looking at my profile, and thinks: “Okay. This DVD has a filesize on 4.3 GB, but he has only downloaded 50MB… He is CHEATING. (Or ghostleeching for that matter)”…

I’d suggest you spend some time studying logical fallacies, particularly the one called “non sequitur”, or “it does not follow”.

“I’ve downloaded 46 megs, the part I wanted, so I’m done, for now.” does not equal “I’ve downloaded all 4.3 gigs”.

Then teach the site admin what you’ve learned.

Then both of you hop over to bittorent.org, look in the “for developers” section, and study the description of the metainfo files contained therein, and what a torrent client reports to a tracker.

If that site is misunderstanding or misusing the information, it’s his problem, not BitComet’s.

Let’s be real clear here. I assume you’re back from bittorrent.com and actually read it? Good, so you know that no torrent client ever says, “I’ve downloaded all of X file”. That’s an inference, which may or may not be valid, on the tracker’s part. All the client says, “I’ve downloaded N bytes. I’m done for now, please remove me from the swarm.”

That site has no business marking the any file download as “complete”. It does not, can not, know that. If the admin does it anyway, and persists in doing it, we’re probably all better off without him.

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I can’t find anything on Bittorrent.com regarding this issue.

“I’ve downloaded 46 megs, the part I wanted, so I’m done, for now.” does not equal “I’ve downloaded all 4.3 gigs”.

Still, it is NOT supposed to show up under my completed files. The tracker admin has CODED this himself, and I have had a long discussion with him regarding this. NO CLIENT, but Bitcomet, is behaving this way, and all tracker admins say that BitComet does NOT report correctly to the tracker, so it must be BitComet that is the problem here. It’s simply not reporting correctly to the tracker. End of discussion.

Now the question is if RnySmile wants to fix this bug. And it dosen’t looks like it.