Transfering qB from Win10 to Win11

[TehPirate]

Is there a way to transfer all my qBitorrent data from my Win10 installation, to my installation on Win11?

[PriitUring]

What do you mean by qBittorrent data?

If you do Windows upgrade then almost everything you currently have should be kept as is and you have maybe 10 days to revert and go back to previous Windows if didn't do big changes to Windows.old folder.

If you do upgrade and selected not to keep settings, files and programs, then after installing Windows 11, your main C drive should have Windows.old folder that has everything you had on previous Windows install and you manually need to move your important files and program settings and database files before reinstalling your programs, or make a backup of important folders and try to move things to correct place later on before your Windows.old gets deleted automatically.

Now if upgrading took too long or noticed weird issues then better to try clean installation, shouldn't take longer than 20min even if got HDD, just need to run setup using USB during bootup and select to delete all partitions, doing so many previously experienced anomalies should not reappear.

Newest stable Win11 22H2 has file copying speed issue for some users, so maybe better to try Win11 21H2 or wait for it to get fixed in Win11 22H2.

Now if curious to know where does qBittorrent save it's settings and transfer list, then it's written in qBittorrent Wiki FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorr ... s-settings

If you can't see APPdata folder, then open Windows File Explorer settings and enable showing hidden files and folders.

After installing newer Windows, recheck your qBittorrent Advanced Settings if you need to bind Network Interface and to specify new IP, if you don't use VPN and never modified these settings then no real need to look at them, although specifying these 2 could maybe help to sometimes get lower resource usage on some hardware and OS configurations.

Now if you wish to transfer downloaded torrents, then you can use qBittorrent to specify new download or save locations.

In future better to ask help in GitHub, there is higher chance to get help quicker and in discussions page you can afterwards mark your question as answered.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/discussions

[TehPirate]

What do you mean by qBittorrent data?

Just my loaded torrents. Atm, I have ~700 torrents, which I do not want to add again manually

Also, I am not upgrading to Win11, but doing clean and fresh installation, i.e. format C

[PriitUring]

Seems you had created discussion thread with different username:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorr ... ions/17893

> how do I transfer all my torrents to the new qB installation on Win11, and not do it manually?

Unfortunately you have to do littlebit manually, even with some help with extra special paid backup software you still need to specify what and where to backup and will need big cloud storage or another drive to temporarily store all your important files before doing Windows clean install.

Backup important files and qBittorrent folders from Appdata folder to safe place before formating and before reinstalling Windows into C drive, afterwards restore everything important to previous locations you had before and then install qBittorrent, when you open it then everything you had should be still there.

Link to qBittorrent WIKi FAQ page:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorr ... s_settings

If you can't see appdata folder, then you can open File Explorer settings and enable showing hidden files and folders or search for RUN after opening Start Menu or just right click on your Windows start menu icon, select RUN and copy paste these and press enter key or OK on screen to open these:
1. %APPDATA%\qBittorrent
2. %LOCALAPPDATA%\qBittorrent