Moving all my torrents to D:/ instead of D:/torrents/downloaded/completed?

[dragons4life]

How would I archive this, I mostly have tags and auto torrent management, would changing the default path be enough? I am mainly asking because I don't want to mess up my library completely.

[tekno]

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How would I archive this, I mostly have tags and auto torrent management, would changing the default path be enough? I am mainly asking because I don't want to mess up my library completely.
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I had a need to do this recently.  I wanted to move my torrents to a different HDD.  I found a Python script that can modify the *.fastresume files that qBT uses to save torrent states. 

The script was found at this thread:
http://f.qbittorrent.org//viewtopic.php?t=6

See a message at the end of the thread where someone posts a syntax correction.

Here is an overview of the steps I followed:

Quit and shutdown qBT.

Make a full backup of your "~\Local Settings\Application Data\qBittorrent" directory.  Just in case the script fails.

Run the MoveTorrents.py script according to instructions.  You need Python 2.7 installed, of course.
It will modify the saved paths in the *.fastresume files, for each torrent.

I modified the "~\App Data\qBittorrent\qBittorrent.ini" manually with a text editor, changing all save paths to the new directory construction.  i.e.  "Downloads\SavePath=X:/qBittorrent"  etc.

Then move the files.  I used "robocopy", but I guess any file copy utility will work.  For added paranoia, I did a file checksum of the torrents in the old location and new location.  I used "ExactFile."

Restart qBittorrent and it should start working with the torrent data in their new location as if nothing happened.

[dragons4life]

Thank you