Migrate from Bitcomet to uTorrent

I finally decided to give uTorrent another try and switch from my favorite client Bitcomet to it. It seemed to me lately that Bitcomet was using more system resources than it was expected to use which is the main reason for the switch. Others are that the torrent community frowns upon Bitcomet naming it bandwidth stealer.

Migrating torrents into uTorrent is a pretty simply procedure. Before you can load them into uTorrent you have to make sure that all extensions that have been added by Bitcomet, or any other client, are removed. Bitcomet for instance adds .bt! at the end of every file if you have selected it in the options. This could be a tedious task if you have many small files that you want to download.

I found a dos batch file in the uTorrent migration guide that is helpful in this case.

1. Open Notepad and write this line into it (replace “bc!” with which ever file extension you need to remove):
   @for /r %%i in (*.bc!) do @move “%%~fi” “%%~dpni”
2. In Notepad, File > Save As: RENAME.BAT
3. Open the location folder for the partially downloaded files you need to rename.
4. Drag and drop the RENAME.BAT file into this folder
5. Right click on RENAME.BAT > Open; a DOS window will briefly appear as it scrolls through all the files in the folder as they are getting renamed.

I decided to use the same download dir in uTorrent that I have used in Bitcomet. To change the download location click on Options, Preferences and select Downloads from the menu. Select the directory where your files are currently located in the field Put new Downloads in to make sure that uTorrent finds the partially downloaded files.
After the preparations are finished we have to load the torrents into uTorrent. Bitcomet has a subdirectory named Torrents in its program directory. The torrents are located there by default. Open uTorrent, click on File, Add Torrent and browse to the location where your torrent files are stored.

You can select multiple files at once. The torrents are automatically loaded into uTorrent and you should see the Done % go up if you already downloaded part of it with Bitcomet.

And that’s it. You successfully migrated from Bitcomet to uTorrent.