Portable qBittorrent

Below is a miniguide on how to make qBittorrent portable.

N.B.: This feature is available in version 4.2.1 and later.

If you want to start with a clean qBittorrent profile:

If you want to start clean, the existence of the "profile\qBittorrent" sub-folder in the root folder where qbittorrent.exe is located is enough and qBittorrent can be configured using the setup guide.

Make sure "%appdata%\qbittorrent" and "%localappdata%\qBittorrent" doesn't exist.

If you want to move your existing qBittorrent profile (at your own risk):

If you do so, your existing "%appdata%\qbittorrent\" content has to be moved to the sub-folder "profile\qBittorrent\config\" of the root folder where qbittorrent.exe is located.

Also be very aware that resume data (BT_backup) is located among other data in "%localappdata%\qBittorrent\".

This content needs to be moved to to the sub-folder "profile\qBittorrent\data\" of the root folder where qbittorrent.exe is located.

If you have a substantial amount of torrents loaded, it's perhaps unwise to experiment with this without a proper backup/rollback scenario.

You need to change the location of the log file/folder, which is located in "%localappdata%\qBittorrent\logs", to the "profile\qBittorrent\data\logs\" folder in the qBittorrent options (or modify the FileLogger\Path in the qbittorrent.ini).

You can also choose to disable/uncheck the log file option all together, to avoid pinning it to a non existing portable location.

It's advised to make a copy/backup of your "%appdata%\qbittorrent" and "%localappdata%\qBittorrent" folders first and to double-check all your settings afterwards, as it appears some settings (like behavior -> Check for program updates) will be reset to default.

Also make sure there is no qbittorrent.exe process running/hanging on your system while doing this whole exercise.

In both cases check if "%appdata%\qbittorrent" and "%localappdata%\qBittorrent" doesn't exist, after running qBittorrent afterwards, to ensure the correct configuration is actually being used.

NU.