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I sustained a loss of a few drives and am now in a recovery process.

Is there a way to remap drives from, for example:

bing/bang/boing/foo/bar/baz
to
bing/bang/<MY NEW PATH>/foo/bar/baz

or do I truly have to do in batches, sometimes individually for 1000+ torrents?

Yeah you can remap like that.
But it depends on the platform.

On Windows it's called Junction point:
https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/j/junction.htm

This tool lets you do it easy:
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshe ... nsion.html

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On Linux its called "symlink" and "hard link".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/185 ... -hard-link

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On Mac, I don't know. I suppose hard links too but this repo is a bit old: https://github.com/selkhateeb/hardlink

Sorry. Maybe I could have worded that better.

I know how to do symlinks and what not, but what I meant was to remap the download directory(s) of torrent(s).
There was some other client that I once upon a time used where I could just edit a single element of a path and not have to worry about the subdirectories that came after it. If I try that in QBittorrent, those sub paths become lost.

The original drives exist but are failing, so I am recovering the data to new drives which qBittorrent needs to know about.

Why don't you just copy the content to the new drives and then change the mount points.

Peter wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:21 am
On Linux its called "symlink" and "hard link".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/185 ... -hard-link

On Mac, I don't know. I suppose hard links too but this repo is a bit old: https://github.com/selkhateeb/hardlink

For this application you would need to link directories.

By design, hard links can't link directories in any UNIX derived OS. Using that Mac tool is not a good idea unless there's a compelling need for it, and you thoroughly understand the issues. Also hard links can't span separate filesystems anyway.

My issue is until such time that I can get all my data off the drive(s), the drive(s) is/are effectively 'locked'. Meaning I cannot change the drive name so the the new drive can have it.
Additionally, I am trying to recover the dying data from rather large drives (5 & 8 TB) into the freespace of other drives.

I just want to be able to tell qBittorrent the new location (set path), en masse, without losing sub paths.
Currently it appears that this is not possible.

However I have noticed certain improvements in this regard. Maybe they were always there but I am only just now noticing.

Either way. I will add this the the recovery script I am working on.

harryb382003 wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2023 4:30 pm My issue is until such time that I can get all my data off the drive(s), the drive(s) is/are effectively 'locked'. Meaning I cannot change the drive name so the the new drive can have it.

FWIW you never actually mentioned what the OS is.

MacOS but it doesn't really matter as I have zero intention or interest of resolving this at the OS level.
It's not something requiring OS level resolution.

It is merely a minor application issue I am trying to work through.
To be clear, I am not suggesting that there is anything wrong with qbittorrent. It was just something that I could do with another client I once used so I thought I would ask about the one that I now use.

I have been spending the last many months working on a recovery script in perl. I well merely add this to my ToDo list.