mr-brunes Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Hi My PC crashed and then at reboot utorrent prompted me to update to 3.5.5 build 46010, but after updating I've discovered that my torrents list is now empty! I don't know if the crash or app update hosed it. I looked under prefs and the directories are all configured as normal. So where have all my torrents gone? I tried loading an existing torrent and it loads fine but obvs I don't want to go through this for each one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 search your PC for resume.dat or resume.dat.old. If you are lucky and installed into a new path, exit, and use the old file instead. You torrents' list is in there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-brunes Posted May 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Many tx for that useful info. I had quite a few named resume.dat.[big-number].bad dating back quite a while (years even). Unfortunately the only recent-ish one didn't seem to work afer I'd renamed it, so I guess the clue was in the filename! Wish there as an easy automatic method of cloud backup for these important config files. Yes I know one can DIY these things but one has to know all the relevant files and then setup a script etc. E2A: Ok I've just seen your tip T! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 Too late for you... Just make sure you delete both .dat and .dat.old when you test with another renamed file.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-brunes Posted May 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 I renamed resume.dat to *.new but didn't know about .dat.old. What determines renaming the file as [bignum].bad? Is it some form of a database minus transaction logs that is easily corrupted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 13, 2021 Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 uTorrent sees it as "corrupt" (bad checksum). There is no log. A likely root reason is some problem during saving it (like crash, or shutdown of the exe). You can try to open the .bad with BEncode utility and save it again. Maybe you will get lucky... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-brunes Posted May 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2021 I tried but it couldn't fix them. Tx anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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