Beta 1.2.3 (358) start from browser

[dolbysnoopy]

I'm using Opera browser and add application/x-bittorrent entry to start utorrent. I don't have problem using 1.2, but start with this beta, it start a new process everytime when I click on a torrent file link without checking utorrent.exe is already running. Anyone got this problem too?

[amonrei]

Yep same here. Even when you save it onto your hard disk and click on it, it will still launch a new instance.

[Ares]

Mine only uses one instance. I'm using Firefox 1.5 and µTorrent 1.2.3b.

-Ares

[ludde]

Make sure you have associated .torrent to the new utorrent exe

[amonrei]

I did that and it still behaves the same.

[Reverie]

hmmn I got that same problem too.... it keeps opening new instances... I should probably downgrade....

[dolbysnoopy]

No.. since the unicode work for my downloading torrent files, although there're still a few can't. Now I just download the torrent file and use "File/open torrent" in utorrent.exe to make it dl.

[chaosblade]

An opera only issue then ?

[dolbysnoopy]

No.. the previous beta and 1.2 release don't have this problem.

[chaosblade]

That doesnt answer my question though. Does the issue NOW only occur with opera ?

[war59312]

Yes only with Opera for me.

[Firon]

That seems to be the common factor, it only happens to people using Opera. This happened to other people quite a while ago, if I recall correctly.

[dolbysnoopy]

But I never saw it happen when I use utorrent 1.2 to 1.2.2 but just 1.2.3b358. Perhaps stable version will fix that? Using Opera here for years, I hate IE.

[angedelamort]

I have opera (8.51) and I don't have this problem. Disable the association and re-enable it, maybe that will fix the problem.

[Reverie]

I just tried 1.3 and with IE it still opens a new process

[chaosblade]

Never had problems with either IE6 or Firefox 0.x -> 1.5 with any version of uTorrent. Its more a specific local association\action setting.

[ljhsquall]

I use to have no problems with 1.2.3b. After it does the auto update thingy. It open a new instance everytime i open a new torrent file. I downgrade back to 1.2.3b and it's still the same

[chaosblade]

Try the latest version, 1.3 build 364. should be fine.

[spriseris]

I'm using Firefox 1.5 and this happens to me, whether I try to open the torrent from my browser, or whether I try to open it from my desktop after I've saved the torrent file manually. It always tries to open a new instance of µTorrent. I had installed beta build 360, then upgraded to 1.3 build 364 today through the µTorrent client.

[spriseris]

A little more on what I can see happening:

First things first: I had saved my 1.2.3(360) beta as "utorrent-beta-unicode-build-360.exe" in my storage directory. This directory is where I keep all my installers. utorrent doesn't use an installer. When it auto-updated, it saved the new 1.3 executable over top of the old executable in my storage directory. I wondered why when I erased and updated my file associations, it still said "open with utorrent-beta-unicode-build-360.exe".

This however, has nothing to do with the problem it seems.

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So, starting from scratch: I erased all copies of utorrent from my system. I made a utorrent folder in my Program Files. I put the newest 1.3 (364) "utorrent.exe" in that folder. I erased the torrent association from Tools->Folder Options->File Types tab. Upon first launch of utorrent.exe, it asked me if I'd like to set my associations to utorrent. I said yes. It opened, and resumed two torrents I had been downloading. I clicked a third torrent I'd saved to my desktop previously, and it attempted to open a new instance.

When I look at the "Advanced" button for the .torrent file association, it brings up the "Edit File Type" window. The only action listed is "open" and the "Confirm open after download" checkbox is checked (which will only matter when using Internet Explorer). The action "open" was not in bold, so I clicked on it, and pressed the "Set default" button - which bolded it.. but this did NOTHING as far as the problem goes.

when editing the "open" action, I see the following:

Application used to perform action:

"C:\Program Files\utorrent\utorrent.exe" "%1"

the Use DDE checkbox is CHECKED.

DDE Message:

(empty)

Application:

utorrent

DDE Application Not Running:

(empty)

Topic:

System

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This is all the information I could gather regarding this issue.

Again, I'm using Firefox 1.5 and WinXP SP2.

[kurahashi]

I'm using Firefox 1.5 and this happens to me, whether I try to open the torrent from my browser, or whether I try to open it from my desktop after I've saved the torrent file manually. It always tries to open a new instance of µTorrent. I had installed beta build 360, then upgraded to 1.3 build 364 today through the µTorrent client.

I've exactly the same.

Firefox 1.5, but it doesn't matter since every time I'm trying to open torrent file it launches another instance of utorrent. Problems started since I've installed the 1.2.3 betas.

[1c3d0g]

You fellas having problems should delete all the .DAT files (except maybe resume.dat if you want to keep your stats in µTorrent) in %AppData%\uTorrent and start fresh, and see if that helps. Forgive me, if you have already done that. :/

[spriseris]

I just tried this. Erased all my dat files except resume.dat and the two .torrent files in my %AppData%\uTorrent directory. This was my dht.dat and settings.dat files. I had to spend 3 minutes putting all my settings back. But it still had no effect on the way µTorrent tries to launch another instance when opening a new torrent.

[boo]

maybe it's the resume.dat that is wrong with, not the settings.dat and the dht.dat

[jroc]

Application used to perform action:

"C:\Program Files\utorrent\utorrent.exe" "%1"

That has to match the current exe file for it to not open another instance. All having the multple instances, check the versions of both instances that open. If they are different, thats the problem. I had a similar problem with my shortcut pointing to older versions. If u using a shortcut to open uT, make sure the correct version is in the shortcut. (right click the shortcut and hit properties)

or in spriseris's and some other cases it might be easier to just rename the current utorrent exe u have to "utorrent.exe". Thats hopefully should do the trick unless u are like me. I kept all versions and had to rename em all to their actual versions. Some versions just said "utorrent.exe" while some said "utorrent-beta whatever.exe" The mulpitle instances are just some association errors, thats all.