kayla6699 Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 i just upgraded to 1.7. i always found the .exe for 1.6 in the program files.i downloaded 1.7 into my downloads folder, thinking the utorrent.exe would install wherever it should.after i exited out of the program i found i couldn't find it anywhere. in desperation i opened the .exe from my download folder, and it opened again with all my torrents.is it not installing in the program files anymore?can i safely move the utorrent.exe into the program files now that it's already installed and launch it from there? or is it already someplace else that i can't find?i didn't opt for a desktop or start menu icon, cause i already had a place i wanted it's icon to go. now i wish i had so i could at least see it's path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 You should be able to move it to the Program Files folder without issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla6699 Posted September 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 ok, but it's getting weirder and weirder. now when i boot my computer i have a security warning that comes up for the utorrent.exe asking if i want to open the file. that never happened with 1.6. it always just automatically opened. has anything changed or am i forgetting that i disabled such a warning waay back when installed 1.6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 Check the executable's properties and click the "Unblock" button near the bottom of the General tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla6699 Posted September 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 ok, thank you. i didn't see an "unblock", only attributes: read only or hidden, on the .exe's properties, but i think i solved the problem by unchecking a box on the security warning.tell me this, tho. on 1.6 i had a place in the utorrent program files folder, separate from my documents>download folder, that held all the little "add new torrent" files that i click to get the torrent to begin downloading. since all i have now is a utorrent.exe file that i put myself in a folder in my program files, where are all those little files going? (what are they called? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 %appdata%\uTorrentThey're called .torrent files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla6699 Posted September 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 ...lol...thanx. well, i have no idea where that folder would be. looks like it's in the windows directory or something. was this a change? didn't they used to go into the utorrent directory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_is_AppData.3FAnd it's not a change; µTorrent has always behaved in this way. If you want it to store the .torrent files wherever the executable file is, then you need to store the settings.dat file wherever the executable is, and the .torrent files will follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla6699 Posted September 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 okey dokey...found that. but i did have a folder in the utorrent directory that held all the .torrent files i downloaded. at one time when i looked at it, it was several megs. so utorrent's not set up like that anymore?excuse all these questions, but i'm trying to understand more about this program, and without a program folder i can look around in, it's a little more difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 I'm not really understanding your question here... I just explained to you that the .torrent files are stored in %appdata%\uTorrent. µTorrent stores all the .torrent files here until you remove them yourself, or you tell µTorrent to remove them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla6699 Posted September 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 on 1.6 i found those files in the utorrent folder. am i wrong there? delusional?or at least i found what looked like those files in the utorrent directory. didn't there used to be more in the utorrent folder than just an .exe file?my 1.6 download was a setup.exe. what happened to that? evidently there used to be more files than just an .exe file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 The setup was done away with because it's sorta built into µTorrent now. Like I told you before, if you want the .torrent files to be stored with the executable, you need to move settings.dat into the same directory as µTorrent's executable (as opposed to leaving it in %appdata%\uTorrent). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla6699 Posted September 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 why, thank you. it wasn't that i wanted them to be stored with the .exe file, i was just wondering about the set up. i hadn't looked at the faqs, because frankly, i don't understand most of the terminology there, like %appdata%\uTorrent.it is a good idea, tho, to have it all together, so maybe i will move it.thanx for hanging in there with me...and all my probably clueless questions.ya know, it might be nice if you guys put together a real tutorial for folks like me who have very little idea about torrent technology. just a walkthru of the program and the best way to set it up.i think it's a fabulous, fantastic tech, but other than knowing it downloads bits of files, shared among users, i know squat about what it's all about...and i would like to. )thanx, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 That'd be what the guides and the manual are for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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