Application: uTorrent
Category: Web
Description: uTorrent is a torrent download manager.
Download uTorrent Portable Development Test 1 [210KB download / 650KB installed]
(MD5: 243c9662291d12af9e690520a0938ea6)
Instructions:
1. install uTorrent Portable
2. download uTorrent 1.7.7 from http://www.utorrent.com/
3. save 'utorrent.exe' to the 'App\utorrent' directory
4. (optional) download and save the help file to the same location
5. run uTorrentPortable.exe
Release Notes:
PERFORM A NEW INSTALLATION, DO NOT UPGRADE AN OLDER VERSION.
Development Test 1 (2008-05-14): Initial release
- Re-released with permission from Ryan McCue
So, is there a reason why it
So, is there a reason why it would not work with the 1.8beta?
You could test it and find
You could test it and find out :)
But I'm not going to waste my time with beta versions at the moment.
Question
I was just messing around with it and I found one thing you might want to change. The torrent files get copied into the app directory when you add them to the download list, shouldn't they be copied to the /Data/torrent folder when the program is closed? I have all my torrent files left in the app directory.
Question
Did you install this overtop of Ryan's version? If so, then the default settings file wasn't copied correctly.
Can you check your settings and tell me where the program is set to save your torrents ('Other' section of settings dialog)? It should be -
Also check you didn't make other settings that override the default torrent save location.
Never Set
I never had it set to save the torrents anywhere. I just thought the launcher was set up so that any torrent files in the App folder would be copied to the torrent folder. I'll put in the save location. Will the launcher automatically change the drive letter for the save path or do I need to put in a relative path like you have above?
You didn't answer my
You didn't answer my question. Did you overwrite an old installation from Ryan's version?
I ask because on a new install the default settings file is copied from DefaultData, which has all the relative paths correctly set.
It must be done this way because the settings file is more or less binary, and it would be unreliable to do a search-and-replace.
But yes, the save location should be a relative path exactly as I wrote it.
To finally answer your
To finally answer your question, I did overwrite an old installation. But I don't see how this would have helped. I already had a settings file in the Data\settings folder, so those settings would have never been updated to reflect the change you made for the torrent folder.
Which is exactly the
Which is exactly the issue....his updated launcher handles things differently, and he had relative paths properly working. Ryan's did not fully work this way. So without the new settings from DefaultData getting copied over, the new launcher was still working with the old settings.
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Arrgghh that's the
Arrgghh that's the point!!!
When you overwrite an old install it does not copy the default settings file. And it shouldn't, otherwise you'd lose your settings each time you upgraded.
But this is a new version, new launcher, etc. YOU MUST DO A FRESH INSTALL. This way all your default settings are correct from the beginning.
Fair Enough
Fair enough. I must have missed the giant bold text in the original post.
Upgrading
I'm upgrading from Ryan's version. I did a fresh install, but I would like to import the torrents I already have (some completed, some not). How would I do this?
Thanks,
Don
Incomplete torrents will
Incomplete torrents will probably not work because the "resume.dat" file has references to qualified paths in it that will not translate to the new relative paths.
Completed torrents should work if you place the torrent and data in the correct directories (Data\torrents, Data\download). When you re-add the torrent file, it should find the data in the new relative path (untested).
Yep
If I move my completed downloads to the downloads directory then re-add the torrents, it checks them and everything is fine and dandy.
Thank you,
Don
Would it be possible to
Would it be possible to update the launcher so the name of the exe can be changed. The ini file would be like most of the other programs on this site
For example:
This would give the user more options for computers that block utorrent.exe.
Yeah I can add that for the
Yeah I can add that for the next version.
.torrent files
Should the .torrent files be opened with utorrentportable.exe or utorrent.exe?
TQ
uTorrentPortable.exe
uTorrentPortable.exe
why?
but why when i opened it with utorrentportable.exe, the file was not shown in the download list? is it normal to open the utorrentportable.exe and instead the one that is shown is the utorrent icon?
I haven't tried it, but I
I haven't tried it, but I assume you can add files to uTorrent by passing them as a commandline parameter? Maybe this is not the case.
At any rate, you should always open the app via the uTorrentPortable.exe launcher. Anything you pass to the launcher on the commandline will be passed on to uTorrent. Maybe you need another commandline switch to add the file? I don't know for sure.
I did it
I'm using portable utorrent and its speed is awesome for me (100-150kbps). TQ wraithdu
- Following your instruction
- Following your instruction I downloaded the help file (utorrent.chm) and saved it to App\utorrent\ but when I try to use the help it opens the faq page from the web site.
- Other languages work, too.
Please add to your instructions:
4a. (optional) download and save the language file to the same location
Could your installer offer to download and save the needed files?
Works Perfectly Fine
Works just like the older test version, even if you update uTorrent in the process.
The updated version is just a little more visually friendly.
~TStodden