How to name torrent different from directory

[head_bee_guy]

My files are organized e.g. John Mellencamp/Boots/Audience recordings/1986.02.24 Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, FL. How can I create a torrent for upload that will be named John Mellencamp 1986.02.24 Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, FL without changing my folder structure?

[dorrcoq]

Copy the folder to another place, and rename it.

[LeifH12345]

My files are organized e.g. John Mellencamp/Boots/Audience recordings/1986.02.24 Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, FL. How can I create a torrent for upload that will be named John Mellencamp 1986.02.24 Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, FL without changing my folder structure?

Make a new parent folder to place the untouched version in. But you may want to shorten your naming convention, as names that are too long will not copy and may become unusable / unrecoverable.

Ditch as much as possible. I suggest a path more like this:
John Mellencamp / AUD / 1986-02-24 Lakeland FL / original folder (that probably already has a long-ish name)

Side note, changing the folder name for your own purpose isn't the end of the world, and you could always change it back to re-seed something. So long as the files themselves aren't changed.

[Orangeboy]

Many if not all operating systems provide the ability to "link" files, opposed to copying them. In other words, you can have many different logical pointers (links) to the same physical file. On Windows, the mklink command is provided:


help mklink
Creates a symbolic link.

MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target

/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link Specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target Specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to.


MKLINK /H "new path\new filename" "old path\old filename"

... will create a "hardlink" with the new filename you want to torrent to the old filename without using any disk space.

On Linux, it looks like the "ln" command does the same.

Because links merely point to the same file on disk, do NOT alter any link (add tags/metadata/etc.) unless it is your intention to alter the original.