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  1. I have the same issue. When you open some single-file torrent (with filename "FileName.ext"), and the last saving path was "D:\SomePath\" uTorrent makes have the following correct path values: Save in: D:\SomePath Name: FileName.ext The resulting path will be: D:\SomePath\FileName.ext If you click the arrow in the "Save in" field and select some old path from history, the path values are also set correctly: Save in: D:\SomeOldPath Name: FileName.ext The resulting path will be: D:\SomeOldPath\FileName.ext But if you click the [...] button and open the "Save As..." dialog and go to "D:\SomeNewPath\" and click Save, the path values are set incorrectly: Save in: D:\SomeNewPath\FileName.ext Name: FileName.ext The resulting path will be: D:\SomeNewPath\FileName.ext\FileName.ext After clicking "[Сохранить]" (Save) in the following "Save As" dialog: the incorrect values are set: The resulting path will be: D:\SomeNewPath\FileName.ext\FileName.ext That is really annoying. Please either fix the path/filename parsing or add the option to turn on the old behavior with only one field (for both filepath and filename).
  2. See my tips/guide tip # F 3. ... rafi, thanks, works perfectly. s_url = http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=109914 stitle = µTorrent Stable These values add the link to this forum thread. s_url = stitle = And these ones (empty values) hide the link completely. BTW, is there a variable for coordinates (e.g. to move this link 50-100px right)?
  3. After updating to 3.1.26650 some strange Chinese unclickable link appeared in the toolbar next to the search field: What the heck is this?
  4. Funny. I managed to find the real reason of uTorrent 25277 hanging. It had nothing to do to "resume.dat". The problem happened only when I tried to download one specific torrent file. uTorrent 3.0.0.25234 downloads it perfectly. uTorrent 3.0.0.25277 hangs and stops responding. Link to the file: http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3553880 (it is huge private russian tracker - registration is needed) I compared the torrent-files from this tracker that work normally with this file. The difference is in tracker list: The working ones have the following tracker links (torrent contents example): http://bt2.rutracker.org/ann?uk=********** http://ix2.rutracker.net/ann?uk=********** or http://bt3.rutracker.org/ann?uk=********** http://ix3.rutracker.net/ann?uk=********** or http://bt4.rutracker.org/ann?uk=********** http://ix4.rutracker.net/ann?uk=********** The torrent, that killes uTorrent (torrent contents): http://bt.rutracker.org/ann?uk=********** http://ix.rutracker.net/ann?uk=********** where ********** is my passkey. I don't know what changes where made to the build 25277 since the build 25234, but 25234 manages the downloading of this torrent file, and 25277 does not. To find this out and to compare these versions I didn't reinstall anything or make any changes at all, I just replaced the EXE-file. In the meantime I downgrade to 25234.
  5. Hm... some strange issue: As I mentioned earlier I have two versions of uTorrent both configured as portable (standalone). Each has its own resume.dat, settigns.fat, rss.dat, each has its own folders for added and finished torrents. Each is being started with the shortcut with "/recover" key. Both versions can work simultaniously without any problems. But usually I use each version in different time. I've mentiond this meaning that both versions are configured similarly: they use different ports and folders, but all the other conditions are equal. So, back to the problem. The first version was autoupdated from 25252 to 25277 successfully and works perfectly. I use it to download from RSS. But when I autoupdated the other one today it hung up after starting. I monitored it with Process Monitor for several minutes. The CPU load as straight 50% all the time, but the I/O activity was at 0. I've tried to kill it and restart few times. The result was the same - just loads CPU to 50%, doesn't read any data from HDD, and the window is grayed and unclickable (this is the way of Windows 7 showing that the application is busy) - the only thing I was able to do is to kill the process. I replaced the utorrent.exe (build 25277) with build 25252 and it started normally as allways. Replaced it back to 25277 it hung up on start. Then I've tried to find the reason (I killed the process after each try): 1) renamed my "settings.dat" and created the blank one. It didn't help. 2) removed all the unnecessary stuff (the App folder, dlimagecache and so on) - no changes again. 3) then I renamed my "resume.dat" and created the blank one - tada, utorrent started successfully. 4) but then I made a mistake: after killing the process again I removed the blank resume.dat and replaced it with the original one. Then started uTorrent. It hung up again after starting and also has rewritten the original resume.dat and resume.dat.old - erased my torrent list So (not to mention the loss of my torrents list) the problem was somewhere in resume.dat. uTorrent 25277 didn't like something that was left there by uTorrent 25252. Unfortunately this file was overwritten, so I cannot examine it with BEncode Editor and find the exact reason. And unfortunately I have to confirm mentioned complaints about the delayed speed values. I monitor the speed with Bandwidth Meter Pro and even when I start downloading the torrent and Bandwidth Meter shows the evenly growing graph from 0 up to 30+ Mbits per second and then the straight line at this rate, uTorrent still shows something around 600 KB/s for several minutes. When I click the torrent the speed value updates immediately to 3-4 MB/s for instance. The CPU load and disk write speed (and buffer) are normal. I tried setting gui.update_speed to 1000 and to 500. I noticed such behavior in several latest builds.
  6. Thanks, Adam. I've already matched available icons to the PSD-set given by Firon: I improvised with rss icons. later I will make all the red icons less saturated. "rss clock" is the image filename from uTorrent CHM-file So as for now i have filled the full 19-icons set (this is maximum, present in uTorrent skins library), but to reach the "labels" icon I need to fill all the blanks: Unfortunately I have no idea where to find these icons (19, 22, 23, 24) in uTorrent 25252 and what do they mean 22 was Playback if I am not mistaken.
  7. Firon, thank you very much. But i meant the other version - the one with these icons: or But thanks anyway. This PSD files show me the correct order of icons and it will be easy to replace them with the needed ones. And most importantly the iconsets are full (e.g. "tstatus" has 49 positions). Thanks again.
  8. As I wrote earlier I didn't like the new status icons in the latest build (25274). For those, who shares my opinion and prefers the old icons (as do I) I made two versions of transparent tstatus.bmp with old icons (19 icons set). Unfortunately I don't know what icons from original uTorrent iconset should be on positions 15,16,17 and 18. So I took them from one of not numerous 19-icon skin called "Tango" by Nighted. I hope the author wouldn't mind. The first version is compiled from transparent PNG-icons from uTorrent help, saved as PNG and converted to 32-bit BMP with AlphaConv. The second is a simple copy-paste from the screenshot of uTorrent Beta 3.0 build 25252. The transparency is achieved by coloring the "transparent" background with magenta. As you see, there is some difference in colors of the following icons: "DL error", "UL error", "critical error", "stopped unfinished" and 2 rss-icons. Also I didn't find the way to insert the "labels" icon () and don't know the right place for the "rss-clock" icon (), which means "the release is less than 24 hours old" - it seemes that uTorrent doesn't use it (or I can't catch it). Download both versions It would be great if the developers could share the real iconset from the previous build of uTorrent (25252) or return to the old icons.
  9. As for me I don't like the new status icons at all. At first sight at the old ones I thought that they were too large, but in a few days they became wery comfortable to use. They are very informative and are considerably different in color and shape - you quickly identify the state of the torrent. But the new ones not only have the same color, but they are too tiny and very much alike. Why do you need to mess with status icons at all? uTorrent has much more important problems (e.g. speed issues). - At first you've hidden them by default - so a plenty of users here asked: "OMG, where are the status icon?!" (not knowing about "gui.show_status_icons_in_list"). - Then you've moved them to the Number column (WHY ???!!!). Thanks for moving them back to Name column. - And now again you try to worsen the user experience, by replacing a somewhat childish but clear, simple and informative icons with this... I don't even find the right word to call them... untidy tiny indistinguishable one-colour something. Here's the comparison: Animated overlay (2 frames, 4 seconds each): Static: Can you at least export old icons as skin?
  10. Interesting. For example, I configured one version of uTorrent to download torrents using RSS. It uses popular public trackers with thousands of pears for each torrent. So I have no goal to heighten my ratio and to upload any data at all. I use the upload speed limit to block any upload (my connection speed is 30 Mbit/s, Upload limit is 200 KB/s). So my question #1: does this upload limit affect my download speed? And is there a better way to turn the upload off? Also I noticed that when the torrent has a thousand or even more seeders, uTorrent has problems with choosing the quick ones. It takes sometimes several minutes for uTorrent to reach at least 1 MBytes/s (of available 30 Mbits/s). But when the torrent has less seeders (about a hundred) there is no such problem - and uTorrent gains the speed quickly. My settings: Global maximum number of connections: 850 Maximum number of connected pears per torrent: 125 Number of upload slots per torrent: 30 (BTW, what if I set this to zero? will it block the upload without affecting download?) I usually have the maximum of 5 active torrents in this version of uTorrent. OS: Windows 7 The question #2: What should I do to increase the download speed of torrents with too many seeders (1000+)? (or to lessen the time of gaining the full available speed)
  11. Hm. I use two versions of uTorrent. The first one is for regular download/upload. The second one is for RSS-downloads. Both versions can run simultaneously. Each one uses the separate database (settings.dat, resume.dat, etc) and separate folders for storing torrent files, each one uses the separate port. All you have to do is to setup two (or even more) versions as standalone, rename uttorrent.exe, add "/recover" to shortcut. For example, the file structure will be similiar to this: ··· Some_Root_Folder\ ··· uTorrent_version_1\ ··· added_torrents\ ··· finished_torrents\ ··· utorrent_1.exe ··· utorrent.ico ··· resume.bat ··· rss.dat ··· settings.bat ··· uTorrent_version_2\ ··· added_torrents\ ··· finished_torrents\ ··· utorrent_2.exe ··· utorrent.ico ··· resume.bat ··· rss.dat ··· settings.bat If you want to be able to visually distinguish among running uTorrent instances, you should add different icons (utorrent.ico) to the folders. And it is convenient to associate torrent-files in your browser to one of uTorrent versions (so that when no instance is loaded the browser will run the needed one). Such configuration works perfectly. The only small inconvenience happens when both instances are running and you want to auto-update one. uTorrent successfully updates the needed version, but is unable to restart it automatically (so you have to click your uTorrent shortcut manually - it's no problem). MANUAL: - make 2 folders - copy utorrent.exe, settings.dat (and maybe resume.dat/rss.dat, if needed) to each folder - rename each utorrent.exe (e.g. to utorrent_1.exe and utorrent_2.exe) - download different icons for each folder (it will help to choose the needed version visually) and rename them to utorrent.ico - create shorcuts to each EXE-file, open shortcut properties, add "/recover" to the end of command line (example: C:\some_folder\utorrent_1\utorrent_1.exe /recover) - run each version, configure as you like, set different ports - you may want to configure the folders, where each utorrent should save torrent-files, otherwise both versions will save torrent-files to windows user folder. In my example both utorrent versions use their own folders(added_torrents and finished_torrents) Here is how it looks:
  12. Thank you very much for fixing renaming torrents (F2) and for moving DL-icons back to Name column. Everything works and looks great so far.
  13. It's not odd, many application have such option. E.g. MINIMIZE minimizes the application to the taskbar, CLOSE minimizes it to the tray. And uTorrent is perfectly customizable as for minimizing/closing. If you find it odd, there's are some options in preferences. Preferences > UI Settings > Close to tray (if you uncheck this one, CLOSE button will close uTorrent "totally" instead of closing it to tray) and Preferences > UI Settings > Minimize to tray (and this option lets you decide what MINIMIZE button should do - either minimize it to the tray or to the taskbar) So there is no problem with [exit/minimize] to [tray/taskbar] behaviour - you can select any combination.
  14. bigfalls, hello, have you read my post about DL-icons and the problem with renaming torrents in the torrent-list? http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=580088#p580088 Is there a chance, that the DL-icons will be returned to the Name column and the renaming problem will be fixed? And one more complaint ;-))) I mentioned it in uTorrent 3 Alpha thread, but nothing changed since then. It's the GUI problem. In early alpha-versions and in uTorrent 2.x the "Add Torrent" dialogue can be resized and uTorrent remembers it's size when it is opened next time. But in last versions this dialog returnes to initially small size each time you open the torrent-file. When you open many torrents, with many files and need to uncheck some of them, you have to resize this dialog each time. It's very inconvenient.
  15. Vril, rightclick any column name and check the "Up Speed" item in the pop-up menu.
  16. Can you return the status icons from "#" column back to the "Name" column? In the "#" column they look awful (not helpful) and act weird. Here how it was (icon is next to the name): You get all the needed information from the first look: "yep, i'm uploading "blocSonic_com" and downloading "Brett Koonce") And here how it is now: And it is not only inconvenient and unhelpful, but it is not tested enough - it behaves weird, when you press F2 to rename the torrent: 1) Press F2 (uTorrent shows the renaming field in the "#" column as if you would try to change the position of the torrent in the queue, which is nonsense): 2) Enter some text - it displays still in the Number column :-) 3) At least the text entered in the Number column goes to the Name column after clicking Enter: The DL icon in the number column is uncomfortable and the column itself is buggy. It would be nice if you return back the previous behavior (when the DL icon was shown in the Name column next to the name of the torrent and when pressing F2 provoked renaming the real name column, instead of showing the rename field in the number column) The DL icon logically refers to the Name of the torrent, not to it's number in the queue: - What am i downloading or uploading? - Oh, yes, this or that torrent.
  17. GrantGifford, if you can't do this because you've chosen Chinese accidentally and you don't know how to get to the language preferences, do the following: Ctrl+P opens Configuration window You need to go to the top category on the left in this window (it is for General preferances) and then select language from the combobox on the top of the right part of the window. If this is not the matter and when you choose the other language the Chinese is still on even after reloading uTorrent, then you might try deleting the "utorrent.lng" file in the utorrent user folder (%APPDATA%\uTorrent)
  18. 1) Status Icon in DL-list gui.show_status_icon_in_dl_list was available in previous builds, too. But I liked it being placed in the "Name" column. It was much more comfortable than in "#" column (now). I vote for returning it back to "Name" column like in this uTorrent 2.2.1 screenshot on the main page: http://www3.utorrent.com/images/home_promo_win_2_2_b.jpg Or at least for making an extra option, so that user can choose where to show this DL icon, e.g. something like this: "gui.show_status_icon_in_name_column" 2) One more degradation in the latest builds: uTorrent doesn't remember "Add new torrent" dialog size now. If you download many torrents with big number of files, you'll be tired of resizing this initially small window every time in order to select the needed files. And the "More" button can be placed on the right top corner - this will save at least 60 more pixels.
  19. Something like that. The number of episodes is approximately 500-600. And uTorrent tries to reload 100% of these episodes - the whole subscriptions list. It happens every time when uTorrent updates the subscriptions. I tried to reinstall the program and rebuild "rss.dat" and "resume.dat". When i delete "rss.dat" and "resume.dat" and add all the rss-feeds over again the program behaves normally until the number of the episodes in the Subscriptions exceeds 500-550. And here comes the magic. uTorrent restores all the deleted episodes and tries to download their torrent-files again. Here is the example: http://rapidshare.com/files/441869934/Feeds.txt After adding all these subscriptions to the cleanly installed uTorrent you can reconstruct the situation.
  20. I am talking about incomplete files. KMplayer can play partially downloaded files and even jump though empty blocks. And in most cases you can rewind or fast forward smoothly. Neither uTorrent nor KMPlayer block the file. So they can share access to the video-file. And you can preview the video while uTorrent is downloading it. Certainly this is just a workaround. But it works in many cases. The only requirement: the initial parts of the file must be complete - so that the player can detect the video format (codec information, etc).
  21. Is there an opportunity to bypass RSS "history" limit in uTorrent? I have 20-30 feeds at "ezrss.it" with TV episodes. When the number of loaded/deleted episodes reaches 500 uTorrent resets RSS History and tries to download all these 500 episodes over and over again as if they were new. I have tried different versions of uTorrent 2.x and 3.0. The problem persists.
  22. 00, you don't need the streaming feature to play the partially downloaded media files. You can associate "!ut" extension with your video player, e.g. "The KMPlayer". And then you can simply doubleclick the video file in "Files" area. KMPlayer plays partially downloaded videos (AVI, MPEG or MKV but not WMV) perfectly.
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