Mac-the-Knife

Spoke to soon about the latest beta. Loaded a torrent from magnet link and left it running for 24hrs, downloaded next to nothing and uploaded nothing at all. Plenty of seeds and was connected to quite a few of them and had green tick on program, so ports forwarded o.k. Also the program wouldn't open when clicking on the symbol in the tray, had to open from desktop. Deleted torrent and changed back to version 3.2.2 28326, download speed now flying along at around 500kB/s which is the limit I set and upload speed around 50kB/s which is about right for the upload speed of my broadband. Obviously something not right with the new program, will wait for the next beta and try that. Also, I deleted torrent and data and exited program, changed magnet settings in firefox to download to the 3.2.2, clicked the magnet link of the torrent I was trying to download and it said that uTorrent was still running, opened up windows task manager and this confirmed it. Had to close the program from task manager. I then clicked the magnet link again, the 3.2.2 opened and said I already had the torrent (or words to that affect) and would I like to add the trackers, I said yes and all was fine.

Just to say I updated through the program from version 3.2.2 28326 to the latest beta version. Had no problems whatsoever. The only problem that arose was having firefox download to the updated version as it kept updating to the older version that I kept. The problem was that because utorrent now loads in application data, and I have application data as a hidden folder, I obviously didn't have the option to choose Magnet links to open in it, I therefore set magnet links to open with uTorrent from the desktop shortcut. As for any problems with the program itself. The only thing I did notice is that every now and again my green port forward circle would change to the yellow triangle, but only for a short while and not very often and I did only notice this on uploading, as I had already finished downloading. As for closing the program, I shut down pc without thinking once the torrent had downloaded, on start up all was fine. But the upload speeds do seem to be very low. Using Windows XP service pack 3 and only usually download one file at a time, so very low user.

Rafi, where do I find partfiles to check if that's the case and is it known that uTorrent downloads deselected files, or at least is saying they are downloaded.

hshh, the 3.1.3 is probably the buggiest version that ever came out.

I have just downloaded some files with the latest 3.2.1 28086 version of uTorrent. I deselected three texts files, but in the files section of uTorrent it says they have 100% downloaded and the bar is green, yet when I check in my download folder I have only got the files in there that I chose and no text files. So either uTorrent is giving false information or the files have been downloaded somewhere else, which is it.

Is the 3.2.2 beta that has just come out taking over from this 3.2.1 or is this 3.2.1 going to continue as well as the 3.2.2 beta?

I'm on windows xp service pack 3 and always update to the latest beta. I feel uTorrent developers wouldn't be changing the program for no reason at all and are obviously trying to improve it all the time. I suspect at some point I will come unstuck with an update and it would be nice if there was something like a "revert back to previous version" option in uTorrent in case of problems after updating. Unsure whether that is possible or not. There could also be an option to "clear unnecessary files in Application Data folder" as I'm never sure on whether I can just delete things like .torrents for torrents I no longer have on my pc or am no longer sharing. Things I don't like are the advertisement stuff, although setting a couple of settings in advanced to false stops these. Also the facebook and twitter symbols are not for me, don't use either of them and if I did I would use them from my preferred browser. As for things I do like, I find uTorrent for my purposes is much the same as it has ever been, the only thing that really annoyed me was in an older version where you couldn't select the files you wanted before they were loaded in uTorrent, but that was soon put right.

Hi Rafi, I moved the settings.dat and settings.dat.old out of application data and did a new blank text file that I changed to setting.dat, opened uTorrent and it opened in restore down mode, changed it to full screen and back again and no problem. Then exited the program and started it again. It started in full screen and wouldn't restore down again. Decided to give up and put the dat files I removed back where they were and delete the other one, quite strange because I when I went into application data I not only had the one I put there, but was also another settings.dat.old file there. Thanks for all your help in trying to sort it out, but I suspect there will be another version out very soon so I will see if I get the same problem with that.

Hi Rafi, I know how to move them but didn't know if I had to move them. By copying and pasting them somewhere, does that mean I leave the ones that are there where they are to, if not, should I not cut and paste them somewhere else.

Hi Rafi, had to sound like a dunderhead, but do I remove or move the settings.dat and the settings.dat.old files that are there at present before recreating a new blank one.

Could you please explain as don't know where to find settings.dat Update: Have found to old settings.dat in application data, are these the ones you mean and how do I create a new one.

At the top right corner of the header for the program you have the minimise button, then the two oblong boxes for the restore down button and then the red x which closes the program to the system tray, when i click on the restore down button that should make the program smaller, basically nothing happens, so I then drag the corner in to make it smaller, then it will expand and restore down, that's until I reboot my system at which point it reverts back to opening in full screen and not allowing the page to be restored down again. Not a big problem I'm worried about, but strange that it has just started with the latest update.

Did the one but not the rail offer one, have now set it to false. Thanks. On the other subject of restore down, wondered if it was just me or if you cannot perform this either. Minimise and maximise are fine.

No, only have one monitor. Also, left computer running last night and woke this morning to find the INSTAGRILLE advertisement back covering the uTorrent Plus ad to the bottom left of the program.

Program will minimise and maximise, by restore down doesn't work again for some reason, I have to manually adjust it. Also that little ad thing appeared over the utorrent plus bit on the bottom left of program, just clicked the x in the corner and closed it, at least the Dragon thing I mentioned in an earlier post hasn't shown up again.

No, I only set sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled to false, the other one is still set to true.

By the way, just thought I would mention that the response time for you torrent to open from the system try is instantaneous, I have never know it to open so quickly on my system in all the time it's been going. Also no speed issues on any of the 3.2.1 builds for me. Am using windows xp, firefox browser, comodo firewall, avast antivirus and a netgear dg834gt router. Thought this might be useful for others to know.

Set it back to true and awaited and nothing happened, exited the program and started it again and still no sign of Dragons of Atlantis, just finished typing this and was about to post it when all of a sudden up it came. Clicked x on the keyboard and nothing, checked in advanced and still set to true, exited utorrent and started it again and it was up again, so have gone back into advanced and set it to false. I am assuming that you were serious about the x on the keyboard, although I can't recall any program I have ever used that has required you to press x on the keyboard for something and not an x in the program itself.

Changed true to false in advanced settings in area mentioned and so far no Dragons of Atlantis stuff, hope it stays that way.

Sorted out Restore Down by manually resizing window.

I seem to be going around in circles here. I have closed utorrent and opened it again, It opens in what is supposed to be restored down window, but actually fills the whole screen, so clicking on maximised only causes a flicker of the program that remains the same size as it was. As for clicking x, there is NO x in the featured torrent part that is below the toolbar, the only x is at the top left of the featured torrent bit that comes up in the place where the torrent plus advertisement is normally at, which is at the bottom left of utorrent, if I click this it does not remove the Dragons of Atlantis rubbish that comes up below the toolbar. As for whether I change the sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled in advanced, I'm not clear about. The page does actually says Advanced options, DO NOT MODIFY, so do I ignore this and change true to false, that's all I need to know. I've not really a problem with uTorrent having sponsored stuff on it's program, but you should be able to close it once you've been forced to read it. If I can't get rid of it then I will revert back to the version of the program before it was installed as it's really annoying me.

The maximise and restore down for page by the red x tab that closes the page at the top right of the screen. As for the other matter, I always read the changelog, unfortunately I don't believe it was actually in the changelog before it was installed on a build some while ago. I also thought I read somewhere on here that you could click on it and it would go away, well, can't find an x to click on and can find no way of getting rid of it. I took the tick off the show featured content, but still it is there. When I updated it dissapeared for a little while and then all of a sudden it appeared again. Evidently it is in the advanced settings where it is enabled, do I change these settings to disabled.

Just updated to build 28025 and restore down doesn't appear to work, the page stays the same size, anyone else getting this problem. Also, just after I wrote the above, featured torrent, dragons of atlantis popped back up below the toolbar. Anyway to get rid of the rubbish.

Using latest beta 27950. Clicked magnet link and waited for files to load into window so as to choose which files I wanted. This seemed to take much longer than it did on previous build, but may just have been that it was a fairly old file, however, I choose a magnet link for another file and it just kept going round, the files didn't come up in a window until my first file had fully downloaded, which was around 30mins later. I don't normally do more than I file at a time, so don't really know if this is an issue with utorrent or an issue with my comp or settings. Is anyone else getting this problem? Posted this here as felt relevant as using the latest beta, apologies if I should have posted elsewhere.

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