My torrent client downloads files to internal SSD. When I'm low on storage (often), I remove some torrents from qbittorrent and move files to external HDD. It means I can't seed them anymore.

I want to be able to seed HDD torrents periodically. What workflow can I employ? I can think of:

Use 2 different torrent clients. One with "external" torrents only. It will never be launched when external HDD is not plugged in, therefore old torrents will not be marked as "missing files" and will not require verification every now and then;
Use single torrent client which can accept CLI commands to start/stop specific torrents. Before detaching external HDD I will run a script to stop all external torrents. I will resume them back again only when HDD is accessible.

Any other ideas?

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[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You can just change the destination through the context menu, qbt will move them and continue seeding.

You could also use the categories function for this purpose.

[–] podbrushkin@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I can move, but next time when I will launch qbt without external HDD accessible, those torrents will gain error status "Files not found" and will require a long verification process. This is what I'm trying to avoid.

I will check how categories can help managing this, thx

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It happens to me every time I forget to mount the second drive, I just close qbittorrent mount the drive and start again, it does the regular check that does every time it launches and all good.

[–] StretchAgain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

This is what I do as well. My destination drive is luks encrypted and I often forget to unlock it first. All torrents red? Oops. Close qbt, unlock and reopen.

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