Hey there. I got some issues using utorrent portable, maybe you can help:
1) Renaming the Folder utorrentPortable is in, I'll get a bunch of ".torrent not found" up on next start - this should be no problem with a portable app?
2) I have to shutdown utorrent before I shutdown the PC, because Windows terminates utorrentportable.exe and so no changes utorrent made in this sessions are saved (new & deleted .torrents etc)
any solution? or an alternative REALLY portable torrent client?
regards
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Regarding your first point, you should never move the directory the portable app is in; we cope with drive letter changes, but not normally directory changes. It's unsupported behaviour.
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well, what kind of difference is changing a drive letter and changing a directory name?
In both cases the path hardcoded in settingfiles needs to be replaced?!
To understand the answer to that question, you need to understand exactly how apps are made portable in general, and how utorrent is configured in particular.
I don't understand why you would want to change the directory name, anyway.
Is there a legitimate functional reason to do so, or is it just because you feel like you want it to be different?
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I have a functionnal reason for changing path name.
When it's stored on my USB key, it's stored alone in a TrueCrypt partition so I can put it directly in the root (let's says Z:\PortableApps) but when I move it to my desktop computer, I don't want to copy it in the root but in a "Personnal" folder (let's say D:\MyName\KeySync\PortableApps).
I already suggested to change PAL to switch "OldPath/NewPath" instead of "OldDrive/NewDrive". It's not more difficult for PAL developper but far more easy for us. Right ?
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But the OP seemed to say that he renamed the folder that utorrent portable is in, not that he changed the path.
It would be helpful if the OP included more detail to say exactly what he changed.
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Renaming the folder is nothing different from changing the path, is it?
That is correct.
Side-note for guillaume.prevot: PAL 2.1 has some code to help support directory moving and notify when it may not work (default) or will not work; see the release notes for a bit of info on it. But still, it'll be up to the app developer to use it. It will be more work often; you can't just update X:\PortableApps\AppNamePortable, you'll generally need to update X:\ as well for MRU lists and whatnot.
I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” – Proverbs 15:1
I didn't know you were working on improved features about application moving.
And I now completely understand your point of view : as some non-portable apps would not like to be moved, it's up to the portable apps developper to deal with these options.
So there seems to be no possibility to support changing the path that easily - just modifying the raw config files doesn't work out, as I already figured out.
and "2)" is far more important