direvus Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_do_the_colors_in_the_files_tab_mean.3FThe FAQ says that blue is written to disk, green is downloadingIn µTorrent there seems to be different shades of blue. What's the significance of this? Does it mean that the piece has been partially written to disk? Perhaps the FAQ should clarify this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 The pieces tab and files tab behave differently.The files tab only has 3 colors. White (not present), Green (in-progress), Blue (committed to disk).The pieces tab has 5 colors. White (not requested), Green (requested from multiple peers), Light-blue (requested from one peer), Medium-blue (downloaded), Dark Blue (committed to disk). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper007Bond Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Perhaps the FAQ should clarify this point.It does. http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_do_all_those_colors_in_the_Pieces_tab_mean.3F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 He was asking about the Files tab, not the Pieces tab. As DWK said, green means in-progress, but more specifically, uncommitted to disk (it can be a complete piece, but still not written to disk, and will remain green). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direvus Posted July 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Ultima is correct, I am asking about the Files tab. This post has nothing at all to do with the Pieces tab and I am very much aware of the distinction between the two tabs. I took a screenshot, hopefully this will make my query more obvious:Note the various shades of blue!So, back to my original question; what do the different shades signify? I thought it might represent pieces that are only partially written to disk (i.e., the darker the blue, the more completely written the piece is) but Ultima pointed out that green is used for partially written pieces.Genuinely puzzled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper007Bond Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Ah, my apologies.Anyway, I think there's only one shade of blue there. Each file just has a ton of pieces in it, so what you're looking at is a ton of blue lines with some white lines in there too. Make the column wider and it'll probably become more apparent.Example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direvus Posted July 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 You're entirely right. I widened the column and there is indeed just one shade of blue. I guess µTorrent is clever enough to take an average of the colours when it's trying to represent a bunch of different pieces in a line that's only one pixel wide.Question answered. Thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper007Bond Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 I think it's just your eyes playing tricks on you 'cause I only see one shade of blue in your screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direvus Posted July 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Seriously?How about now? This is the bottom two progress bars from the same image, four times larger.If you're not seeing multiple shades of blue in there, I don't know what else I can do except recommend you a good optometrist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Sure, it's just deeper shades of blue. (and images that might be real may be illusion)Make the bar a LOT longer -- bigger than can fit on the screen at once if possible.My guess is the darker shades represents multiple complete pieces in that area while lighter shades represents areas with few or only 1 completed piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 Yep that's basically what direvus implied earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper007Bond Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Seriously?http://swords.id.au/screens/utorrent_files_zoom.pngHow about now? This is the bottom two progress bars from the same image, four times larger.If you're not seeing multiple shades of blue in there, I don't know what else I can do except recommend you a good optometrist Oh, well I guess it does average them rather than just removing lines. Whoops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinlodos Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 I have two colours in the files tab that aren't covered ANYWHERE else, Royal Purple, and Brown. I get these every now and them, what do they mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 ... With pictures that unclear, how are we supposed to know what you're talking about? ;| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anoxan Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 those are the parts ut uploads to the **aa. they now have your ip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinlodos Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Ultima: Use zoom in FireFox, they're High res pictures from a wide-screen monitor. anoxan: where do you get this information from, unless they are using a private consumer cable provider (Star Cable, Ohio) and doing this from a home computer, that's not possible. This was not an MPAA movie, it was a publicly distributed FREE StarWars Fan Film (PathWays) available from the creators own website as a direct download, or as a torrent, totally within not just international law, but the internationally illegal and World Court struck down DCMA of the US. What the hell would someone from the RIAA/MPAA want with my US IP when downloading non-member ANTI-MPAA distributions? And if you have documentation on this, please pass it on, as I'll gladly file charges against them for invading my privacy when conducting LEGAL activities. I wouldn't be the first to do that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Er, not sure about you, but I don't qualify a 500x35 resolution, scaled-down image to be "high res"... Anyway, pictures aside (it's still not clear) I've never seen/heard of brown/purple being anywhere on those graphs. If anything, though, my guess would be that it could be a problem with your Internet Explorer installation... why do I say this? The FAQ says that IE is integral in displaying the pieces graphs, and while that is a files graph, it's essentially the same graph as the pieces graph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinlodos Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 That would explain it, I think, even though it's only happened a very few times, I don't have internet suxplorer, at all (I run uTorrent on a windows VM, under Linux with FireFox. I haven't had a problem yet, but the scare-rethoric of anoxan has me totally confused as I don't download anything released in the US, I don't like US movies (for the most part), and most music I listen to is from central Europe or Asia, where rules fall under the International Copyright Act of 1996 (which allows limited free distribution), not the DMCA, and not within the jurisdiction of RIAA/MPAA being able to do anything, and not anything made/distributed by anyone involved with them. Not sure why you're getting 500x35, as I uploaded at 1690X72. Oh Well. Guess image shack does downscale images a bit, or maybe I grabbed the wrong link of of that uploaded page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anoxan Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 ...I was kidding..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinlodos Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 giggles, no real laugh on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theswitz Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 whats funny is that even in 2006 on win xp, windows explorer and internet explorer were the same thing.with one option change you could use each interchangeably.also there is one more color in the pieces tab-- yellow = seems to mean that block/s of information is "wasted" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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