Transmission: reset torrents after HDD failure without re-downloading
My HDD failed and died. I had around 45 torrents downloading, now they all show error because of the missing data.
Is there a way to reset the torrent metadata so it could start downloading from 0% without having to re-add the 45 torrents?
Thank you
sibero80
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Did you try "Force recheck" from the menu?
sio
on 23 Aug 2019
Did you try "Force recheck" from the menu?
Yes, bare in mind that the drive with the download data died, so there is no folder containing the incomplete download data. (Transmission shows: No data found! Ensure your drives are connected or use "Set Location". To re-download, remove the torrent and re-add it.)
What I need is to restart the download (and thus re-creating the file and folder structure) the torrent, but without having to browse and re-add each torrent again.
sibero80
on 24 Aug 2019
You don't need to obtain the .torrent files again — as long as you didn't remove them from Transmission's list, they are available in ~/.config/transmission/torrents; on Windows and Mac I assume they're in a similar directory in your profile.
kilobyte
on 8 Sep 2019
This happens to me with magnet torrents when the disk fills up. No way to recover gracefully, or there is a way but the UX around it is broken.
jordanade
on 24 Feb 2020
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You don't need to obtain the .torrent files again — as long as you didn't remove them from Transmission's list, they are available in
~/.config/transmission/torrents; on Windows and Mac I assume they're in a similar directory in your profile.