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Download Folder

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:51 pm
by UnbiasedManatee
All torrents seem to get dumped in the download root directory. Isn't there a way to place these in their own discrete folders? This is taken for granted in other clients where downloaded material cab be distinguished from each other.

Re: Download Folder

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:55 am
by Peter
I don't see anything like that in uTorrent.
It can use the labels. But that's it.

Re: Download Folder

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:45 pm
by UnbiasedManatee
It just seems a bit cumbersome to have to manually sort downloads etc. I just thought I was missing something..

Re: Download Folder

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:15 pm
by chuzuki
Disclaimer: I haven't tried this, but I see no reason why it won't work. There may be errors and I take no responsibility for anything you break doing this.

Let's assume the download folder is "~/Downloads" and you have labels "LinuxISOs" and "LEGALSTUFF".
Also let's assume you want to save the files in "/mnt/LinuxISOs and "/mnt/LEGALSTUFF"

First, enable this:
Tools > Options > Downloads > Hard Disk > Save files to location > Check "Append the label of the torrent to the save path"

Next, open a terminal and input these commands:

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$ ln -s /mnt/LinuxISOs ~/Downloads/LinuxISOs
$ ln -s /mnt/LEGALSTUFF ~/Downloads/LEGALSTUFF
Now when you label a torrent as "LinuxISOs", the symlink should cause the files to be saved in "/mnt/LinuxISOs".

Re: Download Folder

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:39 pm
by Peter
Sorry for the off-topic reply!

[quote="chuzuki"]
Next, open a terminal and input these commands:

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$ ln -s /mnt/LinuxISOs ~/Downloads/LinuxISOs
$ ln -s /mnt/LEGALSTUFF ~/Downloads/LEGALSTUFF
[/quote]

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