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MakeUseOf Articles Published. Subscribe to our newsletter Join our newsletter for tech tips, reviews, free ebooks, and exclusive deals! Click here to subscribe. JPG vs. How to Research a Cryptocurrency Before Investing. Zoom Lenses vs. Prime Lenses: What's the Difference? While you can do that temporarily to free up space, you can also move them there permanently to continue downloading the torrent to your computer.

Most Bittorrent clients come with options to do so in a handful of easy to follow steps. The downloads continue right from the position they have been in before the move, so that you do not have to download everything again.

I'm going to show how this is done in uTorrent and qBittorrent. Most Bittorrent clients should offer similar options, and while the menu items that you need to click on may differ, the way is always the same.

Qbittorrent moves the files and folders of each torrent automatically to the new destination so that you do not have to move the files manually. You can use the method to quickly free up space on a drive where Bittorrent downloads make up a sizable part of the drive's available storage.

Update : The uTorrent client just like qBittorrent moves the data that has already been downloaded to the new location automatically. You are right, I just tried it again and the file contents were moved automatically. Updating the article now. Nice, just did it with Transmisson Qt. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up. All Activity Home uTorrent Mac Troubleshooting Mac I can't download torrent file with folder to external hard dive : I can't download torrent file with folder to external hard dive :. Start new topic. Recommended Posts. Posted March 31, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Hi pattyclub, Make sure that you have permissions to write to that particular external drive or directory.

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