New computer, how will seeding work?

[kasler]

Hi all, i bought a new computer last week and it should arrive tomorrow, and i have a question, how will the seeding work with my new computer?

Today i have all my downloaded files on my computer and my dl program is seeding them, but if i start moving them to my new computer, and download a downloading program (lols) on that one, will it be able to share the files?

Or do i have to download something new on that computer so it has something to seed?

[Freedom Kira]

How to re-seed.

Yes, you can just move the files and re-seed. Make sure you don't seed any one torrent from both computers at once, so if you want to seed torrent A from computer 2, you need to stop seeding it on computer 1.

[Tiffanys]

Probably the easiest way is to stop all your torrents then copy over the torrents in the same location they were on the previous computer and copy over your torrent program's data as well so it retains everything you were seeding so you don't have to add everything again. After that, just start it up and check to make sure the file locations look right then do a Force Re-Check on all of them and then they'll eventually all say 100% and paused and you can start them up after that point.

Just back up the folder %appdata%\utorrent with your history and settings plus the folder where *.torrent files are saved if you set a different folder in "Preferences > Directories" and your in/complete data. Well, rather than utorrent it'd be whatever client you're using.

If the drive letter or the path of torrents doesn't change on your other PC, it should resume all your torrents (this would be the easiest scenario, so I suggest doing it if at all possible). If it's not the case, you can edit resume.dat with freeware BEncode Editor and use function "find/replace" to change the drive letter in one click.