Switching
Bring everything with you.
OrbTorrent- Save locations
- File choices
- Names and labels
- Limits and history
- Progress
What comes over
- Where each one is saved
- Files stay where they are. Nothing is copied or moved.
- The files you chose
- Files you skipped stay skipped.
- Names and labels
- Renamed downloads keep their names, and labels come too.
- Limits and history
- Speed limits, when each was added, and how much it's downloaded and shared, so ratios carry on.
- Progress
- qBittorrent's comes over as it is. Transmission's downloads have their files checked first, then carry on.
Settings, if you want them
You see each setting that's different from OrbTorrent's, and choose which ones come over. Anything you leave keeps OrbTorrent's own.
- Save folder
- Download and upload limits
- Ratio limit
- Listening port
- Router port mapping
- TCP and µTP
- DHT
- Peer exchange
- Local peer discovery
- Encryption
- Connection limits
How it goes
Three steps, and you're moved in.
- 1
Open OrbTorrent
It finds Transmission and qBittorrent on your Mac, and offers to bring their downloads over, with the settings of the one you used most recently.
- 2
Choose what comes
See the downloads and the settings that would change, and pick. Nothing changes until you do.
- 3
Carry on
The other app quits while it happens, so the two don't use the same files. Then your downloads carry on in OrbTorrent.
Later on, choose File › Import From, or the Import button in OrbTorrent's settings.
Comparing first? See OrbTorrent next to µTorrent, qBittorrent and Transmission.
Why people switch
Good apps, and a different idea.
Transmission and qBittorrent are good, actively developed apps, and OrbTorrent runs on qBittorrent's own engine. It's for when you'd like:
- A menu bar app that feels like part of macOS
- Downloads that stop if your VPN drops
- Your VPN's forwarded port kept in step by itself
- Fake downloads held before they arrive
