uTorrent Portable 1.7.2 Pre-release 3 (Testers needed)

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July 21, 2007 - 3:33am

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uTorrent Portable 1.7.2 Pre-release 3 (Testers needed)

Here's a quickie I threw together today. Azureus Vuze won't run on my computer properly without freezing, but I'll get that up once I can be stuffed to hop on my other computer.
You'll need to copy uTorrent.exe over yourself as it is closed source. Installation instructions are enclosed within help.html

uTorrent Portable is the popular uTorrent packaged in PortableApps.com format so you can download files on any computer. uTorrent features multiple simultaneous downloads, an RSS Downloader, global and per-torrent speed limiting and a configurable bandwidth scheduler. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your game wherever you go.

uTorrent Portable 1.7.2 Pre-release 3

Pre-release 2: Updated to 1.7.2, added path changing stuff for settings.dat and updated installer.

Pre-release 3: Now updates paths in resume.dat, copies files properly across to the data folder, handles rss.dat and some other stuff.

Let me know what you think and any bugs you can find. I won't be on tomorrow, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, but I'll try and read this post.
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July 21, 2007 - 3:37am

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Is this really needed?

I know some people will find this useful so they don't have to go creating their own files, but I don't find this all that needed. All you really have to do is create a folder, place uTorrent in it, and create the 6 appropriate files.

July 21, 2007 - 6:24am

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Well,

It's the same with Notepad++, but there is still a launcher for it. Plus, it makes it PAF compatible and in future versions, uTorrent will be included, but it can't be yet because of the forum guidelines.
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July 21, 2007 - 6:24am

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Isn't utorent portable

Isn't utorent portable anyway? I always thought that the exe was capable of runnig by itself? Either way its a great app and thanks for making it portable.

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July 21, 2007 - 9:14am

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Yep

But this makes it PAF compatible and may contain fixes later.
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July 21, 2007 - 11:27am

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Not entirely

uTorrent is always seen as a portable app because it's a single executive file, but it isn't portable because it creates files in your app data folder.

April 5, 2008 - 1:20am

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Little known fact:

If you create a blank settings.dat in the same folder as utorrent.exe, it'll be fully "stealth" portable, i.e. nothing in appdata or the registry.

July 21, 2007 - 8:45am

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You through it together ?

You through it together :tongue:? You mean threw :lol:. I'll take a look at it.

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July 21, 2007 - 9:14am

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Sssh
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July 23, 2007 - 9:12am

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Seems to work great.

Seems to work great. Nothing left behind.

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July 21, 2007 - 11:32am

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Since when was uTorrent FOSS ?

uTorrent is closed source and unlike Sun & JAVA they are not
planning on open-sourcing it so what is it doing here ?

July 21, 2007 - 11:36am

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utorrent isnt packaged with

utorrent isnt packaged with it, this is just a launcher for it. Please read the full post next time
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July 23, 2007 - 1:18am

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Awesome

Works like a charm.

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July 23, 2007 - 9:33am

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Uh, Ryan, when I said the thing about Azureus, that

John would probably take it (since it is the best Torrent client. I did not mean you would hafta forsake your Portable Azureus project. I'll test this launcher a little later.

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July 25, 2007 - 4:33am

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I know, but uTorrent is lighter and more portable anyway
I'm still going to do Azureus, though I'm debating whether to do Vuze or the classic version.
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July 25, 2007 - 1:14pm

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It`s freeware and it`s

It`s freeware and it`s closed source. Afaik it might me redistributed. Although its`s small and fast I don`t trust it since it was bought by bittorrent.inc.

I don`t suggest using any closed source torrent/filesharing program. (Yes, assuming you are only downloading legal files.) There are to many closed source clients out bundled with spyware or other malware and I can`t think of a single reason not to release the source code other then having something to hide.

July 25, 2007 - 5:42pm

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Wanting.

To keep credit for your work. Being worried people will steal it and not credit you, etc.

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July 25, 2007 - 7:23pm

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Well, it's kind of a

Well, it's kind of a misconception. The GPL keeps all that safe.

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July 25, 2007 - 7:32pm

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There are people out there

There are people out there who would break the law you know. (Although they may not know they are doing that.)

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August 5, 2007 - 3:13pm

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Problem with drive letters

I have tried using utorrent as a portable app before, as it is a nice lightweight, self-contained .exe but I ran into a serious limitation. I want to use the application from a removable drive and download torrents onto the removable drive rather than the local machine. The problem I found was that when the torrent is added, the path to the data is stored as an absolute path with the drive letter of the removable drive. When I next plugged my drive into another computer and tried to resume the downloads I got an error as the drive letter of the removable drive had changed.

When I saw this project for making utorrent an integrated part of PortableApps I hoped you would have solved this problem but I have found the same limitation with this version. Any ideas?

August 6, 2007 - 3:07am

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Ah.

I'll add a fix to the next pre-release.
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August 6, 2007 - 4:35am

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Pre-release 2

Updated to 1.7.2, various other changed.
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August 6, 2007 - 6:29pm

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Fixed?

I updated to the PR2 version and tried this again but I have found the same problem with drive letters. I entered "e:\incoming\" as the path to put the downloaded data in (the folder on the root of my removable drive) and got about 50% of the file. I have now tried to resume the download on another computer where my removable drive is d: and utorrent says it cannot find the specified path. Did I do something wrong? I tried using relative paths too but they don't work at all. Any more ideas?

August 7, 2007 - 2:34am

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Hmm

Is it stored in the .torrent files, or the .dat files?
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August 9, 2007 - 6:38pm

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Download folder

Can you change the default download folder location? Right now it saves it to "My Documents\Downloads"
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August 9, 2007 - 7:22pm

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you can change it within

you can change it within utorrent itself...just look at the settings.

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August 9, 2007 - 8:02pm

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Yes, I know

I'm just saying to have it set in the "default" settings.
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August 10, 2007 - 4:22am

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Well,

The launcher automatically replaces the drive letter.
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August 10, 2007 - 6:24pm

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PR2 test

Ryan maybe you should add to the Readme that if yon don't properly uninstall the program and just delete the utorrent.exe and Appdata files it wont delete the Registry files created by utorrent.

Works well and leaves nothing xcept some keys for the Firewall.

And I think that the problem mentioned here could be resolved by adjusting the drive letter in resume.dat. I didnt check my thesis. Could someone do that?

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August 13, 2007 - 4:25am

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Pre-release 3

Now updates paths in resume.dat, copies files properly across to the data folder, handles rss.dat and some other stuff.
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October 23, 2007 - 7:24pm

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hmmm

yeah..i made a portable version of utorrent...before i knew anybody else was doing it......twas pretty good...but the biggest limitation i found was 1gb flash drive...1/3rd full...only leaves 600 mb to download onto call me weird...but that isn't enough

i made a few others too that didnt really work that well...

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May 25, 2008 - 5:21pm

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utorrent

ive had a bit better luck try this
Setting up a portable uTorrent is easy.
1. Download the latest standalone version, and copy it onto your data stick.
2. Create an empty data file with notepad or any other text editor, and name it settings.dat
3. Place the settings.dat file in the same folder on your portable disk as uTorrent.
4. Run uTorrent from your portable drive and configure the options and preferences.
Now you’re ready to go. You can start downloading at school, and finish at home. And the good thing is that you don’t need to install uTorrent or another Bit Torrent client, just a USB-port, that’s all you need.
If you’re planning to use uTorrent on different computers with different bandwidth settings, make sure that you set the maximum upload speed to 90% of the available upload speed to guarantee fast download speeds.

December 10, 2007 - 5:18pm

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Latest version

Does it work with version 1.7.5 or has something changed since then?

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Should be fine

According to the changelog, nothing regarding files has changed, so it should be fine.

I'll see if I can update this (along with WinMerge, RSSOwl and Pencil (I think)) as soon as possible.

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December 29, 2007 - 10:36am

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Error message

When I try to install it it comes up with:

Error opening file for writing

J:\PortableApps\uTorrentPortable\help.html

Abort/Retry/Ignore

I tried ignoring it but the next file does the same. Also I now can't delete the uTorrentPortable Folder.

EDIT: I installed it in a different folder which has worked but I still can't get rid of the uTorrentPortable folder.

December 29, 2007 - 6:19pm

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Weird.

There's nothing in the installer that could do this anyway. Is the disk full?

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January 14, 2008 - 11:52am

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Hmm, utorrent.exe

When I install it into Portable Apps, I click on the uTorrent Portable app in the menu, but it says uTorrent.exe was not found, and that I should check the configuration.

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Thats because

utorrent is closed source. So it cant be hosted here.
Ryan only made a Launcher for it and you have to separately download the actual Program.

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August 17, 2008 - 7:28pm

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Why is this launcher here?

Why is this launcher here? If this is OSS, then why is there a launcher?
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August 18, 2008 - 6:47am

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Well

the package is done by someone else, John just made the Launcher to easily integrate it with the Menu.

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April 4, 2008 - 8:08pm

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Skins

Can you download skins for this? I couldn't find the folder to put the skin in.

April 11, 2008 - 4:42pm

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Where to Put Skins

Place the bmp file in \PortableApps\uTorrentPortable\App\utorrent

April 21, 2008 - 2:58am

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It Works

When is this going to be listed on the applications page? It works 100%. If its because its only a launcher why not have a launcher section as there seem to be quite a few that are all fully working but are listed as development or in this case outdated and redundant.

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April 21, 2008 - 7:45am

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This won't be on the

This won't be on the application's page because it's just a launcher. This is listed as outdated because it hasn't been updated in a while, and isn't up to PAF specifications

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April 30, 2008 - 1:53am

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Is it possible that you guys

Is it possible that you guys may create a portableapps launchers site linked and affiliated with this one? That way you keep to the mission and more efficiently distribute the launchers.

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May 14, 2008 - 7:16am

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I am planning to do something like that on my website, once I get it up and running. But right now the dev test list page is not for launcher-only's.
I think the reason is that they are to complicated to set up for your basic computer user.

May 7, 2008 - 11:15am

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@Ryan

Do you mind if I take over on this, at least to update it?

EDIT: New versions's done, just waiting for an OK.

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Sure.

I'm fine with that (although, I reserve the right to steal it back ).

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May 14, 2008 - 11:55am

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Cool, thanks. I'll post it

Cool, thanks. I'll post it up later.

June 23, 2008 - 8:21pm

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Not Bad Launcher

Not bad launcher, but if it ever gets on the applications page it would be nice.

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New version

Because this portable version is outdated, you can found another (the latest, 1.8.2, here :

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