µTorrent Portable 1.8.5 Revision 2 has been released by PortableApps.com. µTorrent is the world's most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). This release updates µTorrent to the latest release. It's packaged as a portable app so you download on the go and it's in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It's released as freeware for personal and business use.
Revision 2: The original release was using an older language file so some international translations may have been out of date. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
Features
µTorrent is the world's most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.
µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren't there at all.
Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple. µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn't available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
µTorrent Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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µTorrent Portable is available for immediate download from the µTorrent Portable homepage. Get it today!
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1.8.5
News body says 1.8.4 when it should be 1.8.5
Fixed
Fixed, thanks
Trademarks
Really? (no sarcasm, I honestly didn't know this was true (or not))
I've installed this a couple
I've installed this a couple times and it downloads 1.8.4. I've done a clean install twice with the same result.
Try Again
Try re-downloading and make sure the installer ends in ...online_.paf.exe instead of online.paf.exe.
That did it, I must have
That did it, I must have downloaded before the newer one hit all the servers.
Skinning
I was wondering if it was possible for this launcher to allow skinning since the skin files have to be in the application folder.
old languagepack
the included languagepack (in \App\utorrent\utorrent.lng) is an old one (oct. 8th 2009) which was for 1.8.4 build 16688.
the last one should be added (oct. 30th 2009):
http://www.utorrent.com/download/langpacks/dl.php?build=17091
Fixed in Revision 2
This has been fixed in revision 2. Sorry about that.
Thanks - not a big problem,
Thanks - not a big problem, but should not happen.
Only 1 textline was added since 1.8.4 ...
Fogets what it was downloading when rebooting
I have used uTorrent for a while now. I have not noticed this behavior before the portable release. I have it set as the default app for firefox but some times utorrent does not start the download of the file after the .tor file has been downloaded. I can start it manually though. Also if I have to shut down the computer mid download it does not restart the download when I reboot and start utorrent. Does not even recognize it was downloading until I manually restart the download from the .tor file in a temp directory. Then it checks the partial download and continues on. This was always automatic when I had utorrent installed in c:\Program Files\uTorrent.
Any ideas?
Paul
DO NOT restart the computer
DO NOT restart the computer while portable apps are running. The launchers will not get a chance to clean up and all kinds of files and registry entries will be left in the wrong places. This is a symptom of the mess that is created. Just say no.
uTorrent.exe takes a long time to quit
For some reason uTorrent.exe takes quite a bit of time to fully quit, longer than most apps. uTorrentPortable.exe does not move the setting back until uTorrent.exe completely quits, it takes so long that the computer shuts down before uTorrentPortable.exe has a chance to move the settings.
I had this problem for awhile until I figured out what it was. If you want this fixed you should put in a request to uTorrent, PortableApps.com cannot do anything about it.
Thats likely the problem
I was not "restarting" the computer but rather shutting it down to reboot later. I thought that when you shut down the computer it would wait for everything to gracefully quit. Seems a pain to have to quit every running app, especially the ones that minimize to the system tray.
Paul
A restart and shutdown have
A restart and shutdown have the same effect, no cleanup will be performed.
It wouldn't matter even if
It wouldn't matter even if uTorrent quit immediately. NSIS does not (cannot?) handle the system shutdown messages properly, so the launchers do not clean up after themselves. It's basically like killing the launcher from Task Manager.
The original app would have to properly handle the shutdown scenario as well as NSIS being able to intercept the windows message and giving the developer a way to properly respond to it. I haven't gone in depth yet, but I don't think NSIS can do this at all. So we're double screwed.
I cannot say whether or not
I cannot say whether or not you are correct, but from what I can tell uTorrent is the only app so far (FFP, GCP, & FileZillaPortable) that does not save settings when I shut down with out closing them.
I second that. I don't think
I second that. I don't think the problem is with the launcher - yes I do get the point of what you are trying to convey, but as Devo mentioned other apps, being portabilized as well do have their ways of saving data. I think the issue here is that for some reason it saves data only on quit, which it should save on every change, then even if the quit was forceful the data would still be there - which we can see from other apps.
Part of it is how the app is
Part of it is how the app is portablized. If the launcher just changes some environment variables, then a shutdown won't matter. But in the case of uTorrent it is actually moving files around after uTorrent exits. If the shutdown procedure kills the launcher before it can do this, then it won't be done.
Same goes for other apps too. It depends on how they are portablized. I'll admit, depending on how fast your computer shuts down, there's a chance the launcher could have some short time to do something before being closed.
It would be easy enough to test...create a launcher that opens and waits for something like notepad, then moves/creates/renames some files and creates some registry entries or whatever on exit. Run it and shutdown the computer (without closing notepad of course). On restart, see what the launcher was able to do.
but
it still would be possibly messy.
I don't think that can be handled properly. I posted about this (actually it was hibernation but its basically the same) a while ago but the comments were few.
I can not get this to install.
I use install new app from the portable apps menu and utorrent gets 50% of the way and then gets stuck on "connecting". Does anyone have any ideas? I have not had trouble before.
Worked for me
And I thought, I have the worst possible connection ever !
I have a fast connection.
I have a fast connection. Every other app installs easily for me, I guess it is being blocked from accessing the site, but the previous version installed just fine.
Manual download
Did you try downloading uTorrent manually, then just place utorrent.exe in the App\utorrent folder
The installer file and the executable file should be one and the same file, so there is no need to extract anything out of the uTorrent installer !
Optionally you could download utorrent.lng to get the languages, move it to the same folder as the exe !
Good luck
Problems with this version of uTorrent
I've used uTorrent for around a year previous to PA.com version and used it as described on uTorrent's site as a portable app. This simply required putting the settings.dat file in the same directory as the .exe. During that year of use I never had a single problem with it, except if I performed a shutdown/restart without closing uTorrent I would occasionally get problems with torrents not recognised and needed refreshing.
Now, since I downloaded the PA.com version 1.8.5, I've had a few problems with the app. First, as described above about adding torrents, on system boot I can add a fresh torrent but further attempts downloads the torrent file to temp folder then nothing happens. Though I can add them manually.
Also, I d/l some torrents which after completion the mp3 files were manually moved to my music folder and then I used the menu option, as I always have done, to remove the torrent and all data. This appeared to work, yet on the next system boot uTorrent informs me of all the errors for torrents it cannot find, the ones I deleted???
And, last but not least, my Rocket Dock shortcut doesn't always start the program. At first I thought it could be the dock but I also have problems with the PAMenu shortcut, so it must be the launcher.
I'm also a bit puzzled as to why the PA.com version has two folders for the settings?
uTorrentPortable\Data\settings - seems to be the 'storage' folder if you like, and
uTorrentPortable\App\utorrent - is where the .exe is located but the settings files disappear on closure of the app, why?
What's going on? I feel like I should've kept my old setup, this one is causing problems!
Please help
Settings
They're moved back into Data\settings, making them available for inclusion in the Platform's 'data only' backup function. This is normal, it's how a lot of the launchers work.
1) The portable version does
1) The portable version does not set any file associations for .torrent files. As a side effect, if you have a locally installed version it will remove the file association (this is uTorrent's behavior, not ours). Same thing happens if you have the 'start with windows' option selected.
2) Removing torrent+data works fine for me, both are deleted and uTorrent does not complain on subsequent launchings.
Urm... Yes it does
@wraithdu:
1) The portable version does not set any file associations for .torrent files.
I think you'll find it does, I used the utorrent.exe as a portable app all you do is after using for the first time it creates the setup files in windows hidden app data folder, move these to the same folder as the .exe and its portable, no launchers and no problems and IT DOES HAVE FILE ASSOCIATION.
So the problem is with the launcher not utorrent. I've been using it for nearly a year and I haven't had a single problem til I switched to the PA.com version of the app.
Maybe in the eyes of PA.com the fact it creates file assoc and becomes the default app for these files means it isn't properly portable, but they're extreme spec's. I'm happy for an app to leave stuff behind as long as it's not personal data and there's not masses of data left behind. I know little about the tech side of computers but am I right in thinking this is one or two entries in the registry?
Perhaps there should be a portable file association application, though I beileve that is on the way, maybe this will solve the problem.
Still having problems...
When i move a download and delete the torrent for some reason the torrent reappears and tells me error: missing files!!!
I was told that theres no problem with the launcher but utorrent itself but not had problem with utorrent at all till started using PA.com version.
Will this get sorted?
I've figured out what is
I've figured out what is happening but dont know why.
If I delete a torrent then close the app and later shutdown my laptop the settings files dont get updated. meaning that the next time utorrent is started it uses the older setup files with the torrents that were deleted.
Yet if I delete the torrent, close and then restart utorrent the setup files ARE updated.
This must be something to do with the setup files being moved as I pointed out above. Hence my question:
So the app transfers the settings to the .exe's directory during use then writes them to the Data\Settings folder on closure, yes?
But it doesnt seem to work properly for me, and i'm being told its to do with the utorrent.exe inherent behaviour. If that's right then everyone using this app should have the same problem, but that doesnt appear to be the case.
When I used utorrent before using the .paf setup, I had all the setup files in the utorrent directory and it worked fine without any problems. So, again, I ask how can it be utorrent's inherent behaviour to resurrect deleted torrents?