Move an Existing qBittorrent Profile into a Profile Directory (Windows)

See also: Move a qBittorrent Profile to qBittorrent-nox on Linux — a different (but related) migration.

Move an existing qBittorrent install's default profile into a specific profile directory.

Create a directory where you want the profile to go — this is your new profile directory. In the following examples this folder is named C:\MyQProfile, but it can be named however you want.

Create directories inside your new profile directory so the structure looks like this:

C:\MyQProfile\
    qBittorrent\
        config\     <- preferences
        data\       <- torrent data

Find your preferences in this folder:

%APPDATA%\qBittorrent = C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\qBittorrent

Move these directories into your new config\ folder.

Find your torrent data in this folder:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\qBittorrent = C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\qBittorrent

Move these directories (except cache!) into your new data\ folder.

Copy your qBittorrent shortcut to create a new shortcut and edit it to add the profile parameter to the target.

The new target should be similar to:

"C:\Program Files\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe" --profile=C:\MyQProfile