How do I save the settings of the download page?

[Ross Dorn]

When I sort the menu-bar the way I want it, the bar where I find "Name, #. PLayback, Size, Status...." a.s.o., every time I restart the computer I find it has been reset right back and I have to start sorting again. I checked, but I cannot a place where to save the setting....

Plus, on the left, I also find an app instralled, a player, which I uninstall and then, also after every restart, it is installed right back again. And I find it also has registered as s

 

How can I save both settings, please?

 

 

 

[Ross Dorn]

Thank you for your answers.

 

I just installed TIxali, works without a problem.....    Just like utorrent used to.

[mike20021969]

On 01/07/2017 at 8:50 PM, Ross Dorn said:

I cannot a place where to save the setting....

That's because they're automatically saved in a file called settings.dat (found in uTorrent's data folder).

If you're interface changes are being reset, it could indicate settings.dat is corrupt, or that "something" is stopping that file being updated when a change is made.

Exit uTorrent. Go into uTorrent's data folder. Locate & back up files settings.dat & settings.dat.old, then remove/delete them both from the folder. In that same folder, create a blank settings.dat file by creating a new text document, and name it settings.dat with .dat being the extension, NOT .txt). Restart uTorrent. You''ll have to customise your preferences, set folder download locations and anything else you had previously customised.

Once done, exit then restart uTorrent. Did the settings hold?

[vze2mp9g]

On 7/5/2017 at 0:42 AM, mike20021969 said:

That's because they're automatically saved in a file called settings.dat (found in uTorrent's data folder).

If you're interface changes are being reset, it could indicate settings.dat is corrupt, or that "something" is stopping that file being updated when a change is made.

Exit uTorrent. Go into uTorrent's data folder. Locate & back up files settings.dat & settings.dat.old, then remove/delete them both from the folder. In that same folder, create a blank settings.dat file by creating a new text document, and name it settings.dat with .dat being the extension, NOT .txt). Restart uTorrent. You''ll have to customise your preferences, set folder download locations and anything else you had previously customised.

Once done, exit then restart uTorrent. Did the settings hold?

Wouldn't be a lot easier just to delete the settings.dat and settings.old.old? Why create a new "empty" settings.dat file?

[mike20021969]

2 hours ago, vze2mp9g said:

Why create a new "empty" settings.dat file?

When launching uTorrent (i.e. uTorrent.exe),  it looks for a file called settings.dat.

If it does not find it, uTorrent goes through the installation process. If it finds settings.dat, the program will simply launch.

(After saying that, I run uTorrent in I suppose is what you'd called portable mode. That is I don't use the application data folder. All files are stored in one folder in the Program Files folder).

 

[vze2mp9g]

On 7/12/2017 at 1:05 AM, mike20021969 said:

When launching uTorrent (i.e. uTorrent.exe),  it looks for a file called settings.dat.

If it does not find it, uTorrent goes through the installation process. If it finds settings.dat, the program will simply launch.

(After saying that, I run uTorrent in I suppose is what you'd called portable mode. That is I don't use the application data folder. All files are stored in one folder in the Program Files folder).

 

Thank you for explaining that to me. Now, does that also apply to the Pro version? Let say I did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit, and I followed your instructions. I copy my license key into the uTorrent directory, will it automatically sense that its a pro version?

Reason I ask is that I did that and when it attempted to activate, it said my license key was invalid.

Lastly, I emailed support as well with this issue.

Thanks

 

i figured out what had to be done. I just had to install uTorrent from the file they sent me with the key already installed.