I’m in the midst of a migration to a new Linux distro and I’m stuck on restoring my qBittorrent setup from my previous install. Both environments are desktop versions of Linux - previously Bazzite, switching to Debian.

Prior to wiping the OS drive that had Bazzite on it, I had backed up my BT_data and config folders to a separate data drive. After installing Debian, I’ve copied my BT_data and config folders back to the right place on the new OS, however the issue I’m running into now is that when I open qBittorrent for the first time, all my torrents say Missing Files. This checks out seeing as the paths are slightly different, /run/media/oldusername/data instead of just /media/newusername/data. I started doing a force re-check on all my torrents and realized it’ll take a very long time seeings as I have 6 TB of data to re-check.

I did a “find and replace” in all the config files to update the default save paths and the save paths for all my categories, but that wasn’t enough.

Has anyone else gone through a qBittorrent migration and run into this problem? If so, how did you overcome it? Any other tips I should try?

I’m thinking of going back to Bazzite just to see if I can replicate the paths and get qBittorrent to recognize all my files again without having to re-check everything. I might also try setting up sym links to duplicate the original paths from the Bazzite install. I think these two approaches might be faster than re-checking my whole library. I am a tad concerned about getting hit with HnR’s on some of my trackers since I’ve been offline for about 24 hours now. And I did not do a full backup of my previous OS (lmaoooo), so there’s nowhere for me to go but forward. Thanks in advance for your help!