µTorrent Portable 3.3.0.29082 (uTorrent is a bittorrent client) ReleasedSubmitted by John T. Haller on February 8, 2013 - 12:04pm
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Still unable to use this as
Still unable to use this as any new torrents are getting the same error message!
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EDIT:
Renamed Data folder to Data0,
D/l latest uTorrentPortable and reinstalled over existing,
Moved torrents and downloads to new Data folder,
Used browse function to add new torrent.
Error message still appearing? I've never had this problem before, why now? Is it a uTorrent issue? Is it just me? Could it be a 64bit issue?
Full path:
D:\MyApps\PortableApps\uTorrentPortable
Win7HP64
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Fresh Install
Did you try a completely fresh install. As in you can't use ANYTHING from your current install (no data, no settings, no torrents, nothing).
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No I didn't yet. I just tried
No I didn't yet. I just tried adding a new random torrent and still got error!
Is the installation corrupt then? As I can't add new torrents it's not related to the current d/ls?
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Completely fresh install produces exact same results. I d/l a random torrent and still get same error message.
EDIT:
Could it be anything to do with the settings file in AppData/Roaming?
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@John as I posted before, it
@John as I posted before, it is an issue with relative paths.
Nuking the Data doesn't help.
What will fix it is setting the paths in Options > Preferences > Directories
to be absolute. The launcher will have to fix them to be portable, but hardcoding them to the current downloads folder path and readding the torrent fixes the error for me (but is not portable).
Funny you should say that...
I just tried that and it didn't work! Thanks, I was beginning to think it was just me having this problem
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New Torrent
This fix will only fix new torrents. Your existing torrents can not be made compatible with the latest uTorrent. It seems uTorrent changes their internal structure and don't support relative paths. If this is the case, that coupled with their encryption of the settings file may prevent us from making it portable. I'll investigate. In the meantime, qBittorent still works great.
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Encryption?
Didn't you mean the file format? Or are they actually encrypting the settings?
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Ah
I thought it was encrypted. Either way, at the moment, we can't edit it. Which means we can't portablize it. Do you have a possible fix for it?
As an aside, I switched to qBittorrent on my local machine as I got sick of the uTorrent's ads.
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I looked into the
I looked into the settings.dat. It is a weird format but appears to be plain text. Maybe a replace would suffice, but I can see the relative path, as well as absolute paths I set.
It's not
There is a length field before the paths. That's the complicated part (IIRC).
I can try working on something.
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Length or Hash
Is it a length check or a hash? If it's just a length, I can put out a patched version with drive letter replacement for now, at least.
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Yep, seems like that number
Yep, seems like that number is the length of the string.
Some custom code will likely be needed but there doesn't seem to be anything that makes Portability impossible.
Nice!!! Looks like they're
Nice!!! Looks like they're going payware then! qbittorrent it is then, if that works!
I'm curious, after googling the error message, one site mentioned adding another user account to try running their backup from there. I tried adding a second admin account and ran uTorrent to see if the problem was indeed linked to that account.
It took longer than usual to start but kept asking me about installing uT instead of just running the app, why?
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I've also tried again to use the backup version of uTorrent and it no longer works either.
EDIT:
I remembered I had an online backup of uTorrent (which is v3.2). I d/l it and it's currently checking the previously unfinished torrents. This is more than could be achieved with v3.3. I've changed the folder name by adding version number to avoid auto updates and installed latest version as well for future.
...v3.2(27886) works fine...
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uTorrent 3.2.2 Build 28595 works fine too
I was having problems with good 'ol 2.2.1 so I tried qBittorrent and importing existing torrents wasn't going well (at all!).
So I decided to up uTorrent but saw this thread about 3.3. I tried swapping in uTorrent 3.2.2 Build 28595 from filehippo into the PortableApps App directory and bam! All is going well. Most (not all) of my 2.2.1 settings came over and all the torrents came over fine. I set btapps.app_store and btapps.apps_channel set to blank and disabled DNA to make it closer to the 2.x.
Does anyone have that 3.2.2
Does anyone have that 3.2.2 build for PAL?
Here
http://portableapps.com/news/2012-11-22--utorrent-portable-3.2.2.28595-r...
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I don't see an EXE link, it
I don't see an EXE link, it just ends up at 3.3.
Wrong link
Sorry, wrong link. It should be this one: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/uTorrentPortable_3.2.3.28...
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Dropped Relative Path Support
Unfortunately, uTorrent now has unceremoniously dropped all support for relative paths in the settings and resume (aka active torrents) files. This means that all your existing torrents fail and your existing settings will break. You must set the download directory to X:\PathTo\uTorrentPortable\Data\downloads and the torrent path to X:\PathTo\uTorrentPortable\Data\downloads. And then go through all existing torrrents, right-click, select Advanced, select Download Location and then select X:\PathTo\uTorrentPortable\Data\downloads.
As you move PCs, the drive letter will be updated, but the full path will not. Doing so breaks the file and causes uTorrent to reset its settings. So, if you ever move relative paths, you will need to perform these steps again.
If you are looking for an alternative, qBittorrent continues to work well.
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Could you eventually make the
Could you eventually make the custom code to replace the path?
Working On It
I'm working on it. Unfortunately, uTorrent has path length checks for every single path in their config file. If one is off by even a single character, the whole config file is thrown out and reset with the defaults. And the file is a proprietary mishmash format, so we can't use any standard tools with it.
For right now, you can use it with the drive letter replacement that the launcher already supports after you have reset the paths yourself within the uTorrent GUI.
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