When I change computers, my drive letter changes. I recently found out how to solve this problem by changing my drive letter before opening uTorrent, but I need to know how to direct uTorrent to the .torrent file so that it can continue downloading.
If you know how to solve this problem please let me know.
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That's easy, assuming you have the .torrent file handy. Simply drop the .torrent file on uTorrent's main window. It will analyze the partial download, and then it should continue.
As for drive letter changing, that's supposed to be handled by the launcher. Are you using the launcher to start the program, or calling it from the PortableApps.com Platform (menu)? If not, only use the launcher, not the program itself. If so... well, I can't help with that. I haven't even installed uTorrent Portable yet (I use the regular one from their site).
Actually, I did use the launcher from the PA.c menu.
When I drop the file onto the main window it says "The torrent you are trying to add is already in the list of torrents. Do you want to load the trackers from it?" I have tried selecting both yes and no but neither works.
I think you've upgraded uTorrent from an older beta version (not my beta)? If so, you'll have to start over. Versions before mine did not correctly set the relative paths in the settings.dat file. This file is 'manual tamper proof' so you can't hand edit it. Either this file or another .dat file stores the paths of the torrent files and downloads, and also cannot be hand edited. Unless the torrents were added with the relative path settings correctly set, I don't know of a way to correct the error now except to start with a clean install and re-add all your torrents.
This just happened to me as well. I think it may be caused by the changing drive letter. Though the directory locations have relative paths it seems the individual torrents are trying to find torrents using the previous drive letter.
In my instance I've gone from F:/ to E:/ and the uTorrent error is Error: Can't find .torrent file: F:\PortableApps\uTorrent\Data\Torrents\filename.torrent
Flanjygo, can you confirm if tis is the same behaviour you experienced.
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Yes, that is exactly what happened to me. It is says exactly that, Error: can't find .torrent file: E:\PortableApps\uTorrent... etc.
the old version seems to store torrents in settings folder, not in the torrents folder. (torrents folder is empty)
The present version does it correct, it stores and lookst for it in the torrents folder.
Assume you can just go and copy all your torrents from the settings folder to the torrents folder and all should work?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I don't think I am using the "old version". I have never used uTorrent until they announced Freeware apps a few days ago. When I saw uTorrent I thought I would try it out. I downloaded version 1.8.4 from this page.
Edit:
My torrent folder does have the .torrents in it, by the way. It's just is using the absolute path rather than a relative path.
when you add a torrent file , is it stored in the folder data/torrents?
The versions before did some mistake here and stored it in data/settings.
On my side I had same problem, then deleted the whole folder with the utorrrent portable and installed fresh completely and since then all is perfect.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I just tried a brand new install, added the OpenOffice torrent file, exited the app, copied it to a different drive, relaunched uTorrent, and the torrent continued where it left off, no errors. It works exactly as it is supposed to.
Be sure when you add a torrent that you accept the default path, it should start '..\..\Data\downloads........' If you mess with that path and make it absolute, you're screwed.
I tried doing as you said and still the same issue occurred for me. Can you test by downloading a fair bit of the OO.org torent, then switch pcs *and* drive letters and see if the error occurs for you?
Thanks
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Something is up when changing PCs. Not sure yet.
Happens to me too when changing PCs and drive letters. I hope that you can get a workaround for this as I cannot always make sure that I use the same PC each time.
John is in communication with the uTorrent devs to see what is going on and what can be done.
Any news?
Nope, not from me. John?
As far as I can tell, there's something being stored about the physical PC in the resume.dat file that screws up the resume when starting uTorrent on another PC. uTorrent resumes just fine on the original PC regardless of drive letter (physical or USB). The problem is that this file is not hand editable (like all the other .dat files) and there are no settings in the uTorrent UI either. I honestly don't know what's going on or how to handle this right now.
John, any ideas?
On top of this, uTorrent is constantly hanging on my Win7 PC. My local copy is OK, but the portable (no matter if launched from USB or a local PApps folder) always hangs up after 5 seconds or so. I'm really not liking uTorrent right now.
I have the same problem about this.
Here is what I did:
change the setting of "store the .torrents in:"to "\"
this makes the program to save the torrent files in the same directory as the utorrent.exe.
And that turned out fine.I can take the program anywhere and it would work fine.
However,there is another thing.When I was upgrading to utorrent portable 1.8.5,I just installed and overwrote the program directory,then the torrents sotred were all lost.
You can try this if you want,but pay attention when you upgrade.
That's why user data is not stored in the App folder. That folder is deleted during an upgrade. Only the Data folder is safe.
yep,but it seems to be the only way to keep it portable,so far......
Do you change the settings for just the .torrent file, or for the downloaded files as well?
This is a really nasty habit of uTorrent: trashing file selections and incomplete parts on startup when things aren't as it expects. resume.dat.old is trashed too. For this reason I'd automatically backup resume.dat before I start uTorrent.
Deleting the .fileguard key from resume.dat might be the key here (it's worked for corrupted resume.dat for me). A guide by znik explains, using the BEncode Editor: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-guides-and-tutorials-65/t-utorrent-move...
"resaving might fix corruption" (doesn't resolve path problems)
There's also a BEncodeLib for several platforms so one could make an app.
I made a uTorrent Portable launcher which deletes the fileguard key, based on the Bencode format.
When this passes the testing stage it will become official, so please help testing.
https://portableapps.com/node/23966
Formerly Gringoloco
Windows XP Pro sp3 x32