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Note that I don't use torrent applications as "set it and forget it". So that is why the following features are useful, for people like I, who start/stop torrents and set their individual speed themselves.Who also add all torrents in STOP mode and start them sometimes weeks later, usually only the grab first file of a batch to see if it's worth downloading the rest or not. etc.

· Make "Don't Download" NOT add the files to the HD. If I just want to grab the .txt readme from five torrents that are 10GB each, I don't want 50GB to be added to my HD.

Yes, I use the pre-alocate disk-space option. No, I don't want to turn it off everytime for these specific cases.

· Allow me to set a -Location for Downloaded Files- folder even if I set it to -Ask Me Each Time-. So that that folder is always where i can browse from when adding torrents, insetad of remember-last.

Most of the time I put files in c:download but I still want to be asked everytime after I've clicked the .torrent in my browser. The (no default save) add is not convenient at all

· Allow me to change the download location of torrents that are already added, and to let me decide if I want to seed it or resume/download it.

I move files around on my HD, I don't want to have to delete the torrent from uTorrent and re-add it to specify where I've moved it to, and re-do the hash check for files that I already have 100. It would be even better if we could tell resume/download or seed when adding a torrent too

· Let me copy just the IP of a peer from the peer list, not just the whole row or the whole colum.

· Allow me to see which torrents I have added a bandwidth limit to in the torrent list, not just the general tab.

Clicking every torrent one by one to see if they have are limited is not very convenient

· Allow me to re-order torrents manually instead of forcing a column sort.

Already discussed in other threadsI could think of more small things that make it hard for me to do the big leap towards µTorrent, but these are the major ones. Of course are mostry all in BitComet, that's why I use it. But BitComet has big flaws that µTorrent doesn't have. I hope you will consider these suggestions, thanks for your efforts.

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Make it easier to change my Global upload rate.

Specifically I always need to switch between Unlimited, 78kB/s and 64kB/s. It's not too bad to have to go to Options-Preferences-Network and type the number everytime. (up-down arrows would be useful on number fields btw) But why not at least allow me to easily switch to these values when i right click the UL at the bottom of the main interface?

Menu: Options > Preferences > Advanced options > gui.ulrate_menu

Set values you need.

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Make "Don't Download" NOT add the files to the HD. If I just want to grab the .txt readme from five torrents that are 10GB each, I don't want 50GB to be added to my HD.

Yes, I use the pre-alocate disk-space option. No, I don't want to turn it off everytime for these specific cases.

you can already do this, check the file contents of the torrent and choose skip on all files you dont want.
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you can already do this, check the file contents of the torrent and choose skip on all files you dont want.

If you mean Files tab at the bottom of the main window, right click the filename and do Don't Download, it still adds the file to the harddrive with full filesize if "pre-alocate disk-space" is enabled.

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· Make "Don't Download" NOT add the files to the HD. If I just want to grab the .txt readme from five torrents that are 10GB each, I don't want 50GB to be added to my HD.

Yes, I use the pre-alocate disk-space option. No, I don't want to turn it off everytime for these specific cases.

+1

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· Make "Don't Download" NOT add the files to the HD. If I just want to grab the .txt readme from five torrents that are 10GB each, I don't want 50GB to be added to my HD.

Yes, I use the pre-alocate disk-space option. No, I don't want to turn it off everytime for these specific cases.

i agree

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[*]Make "Don't Download" NOT add the files to the HD. If I just want to grab the .txt readme from five torrents that are 10GB each, I don't want 50GB to be added to my HD.

I so totally agree with this. I would love to see uTorrent to have a dialog similar to the one bitcomet has. This is basically the one feature i miss the most.

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Make "Don't Download" NOT add the files to the HD. If I just want to grab the .txt readme from five torrents that are 10GB each, I don't want 50GB to be added to my HD.

Yes, I use the pre-alocate disk-space option. No, I don't want to turn it off everytime for these specific cases.

you can already do this, check the file contents of the torrent and choose skip on all files you dont want.

I think what he is talking about, has to do with the 'use_partfile' advanced option. If he has that set to false, µTorrent will still allocate space for that partial file. If he has that 'use_partfile' option set to true, the rest of that chunk will be stored in a temp file without pre-allocating the rest of the partial file.

Another idea for his situation, would be to bring up the files list, right-click on it, and instead of selecting a priority or skip, have a 'view' selection, which would download that chunk and save to a temporary file, and open it with the default viewer, like notepad. That would be kinda useful. Especially if you're deciding between 3 or 4 different versions of a torrent, all similarly titled, but you need more information to decide which one you want... like, snagging the NFO file or something. I know a lot of trackers already display this file along with the torrent info, but some don't.

-- Smoovious

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[*]Allow me to set a -Location for Downloaded Files- folder even if I set it to -Ask Me Each Time-. So that that folder is always where i can browse from when adding torrents, insetad of remember-last.

Most of the time I put files in c:download but I still want to be asked everytime after I've clicked the .torrent in my browser. The (no default save) add is not convenient at all

I can understand the need of having a default while still wanting to be prompted for a download location. However, the behavior is quite conflicting and getting uTorrent to do this is already there. The File menu has 'Add torrent (no default save)' which enables you to add a torrent but to be asked where to place your download to. I'm sure that this is used in the case where a user has a default download location set up in the Preference. If this isn't the behavior or method you need, then I may have misinterpret your description somehow.

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If this isn't the behavior or method you need, then I may have misinterpret your description somehow.

Indeed you have misinterpreted it. Especially since the last sentence of the quote says "The (no default save) add is not convenient at all".

Currently, when there is no default download set, everytime a torrent is added to the client (either by clicking file-add or by double clicking a .torrent file) it asks where to save. So far so good, this is exactly what I want.

The problem is that if I saved the last torrentto say: 

C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorDesktopTemporaryhellobabywhatsup

...it remembers this location, so i have to browse back again to my default 

c:downloadsBTinprogress

I wish that everytime I add a torrent, it asks me where to put it, but always starting from:

c:downloadsBTinprogress

...not from the last location.

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hmm, no offense but imho all these "features" that you describing just

look to me like a total sign of lazyness. ;)

Optimising the functionality of the program so that one person (the programmer) can spare each user (thousands of people) 1 minute a day. You can spare the world ~50 hours of boring clicking/typing/browsing a day by optimising the functionality. That time can be put to better use, like for saving famished children in Third World countries, or for browsing egarednU yhpargonroP...;)

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