how do i bring the stopped torrents to queue

[kishork]

Hi,

I have a relatively slow connection (256kbps) and hence I keep only one download at a time. If there are more than one downloads running, I make the other download to stop.

My problem is that once I make a download to stop, thre is no way to bring it back to 'queue' mode. I see no option called, queue. All that I can do is to either 'force start' or 'start' which again makes more than one download which i dont want.

How can I bring the stopped downloads in queue mode so that if the current download finishes, the queued download would autostart?

Am I missing something?

[DreadWingKnight]

Make sure your preferences reflect the number of active torrents you want to have active, and the rest will automatically be queued.

[kishork]

as i want only 1 download as active, i have made it 1 as active in options.

how to bring the stopped downloads in queue? once stopped, they never get back in queue mode.

[DreadWingKnight]

Start them (don't force start)

[kishork]

No.

If i start the torrent which i want to bring in queue, instead of queing, it starts downloading stopping my already downloading torrent.

this seems confusing.

[DreadWingKnight]

Then sort your torrent list by #

[kishork]

did that.

still, how a STOPPED one will come in queue?

Forgive me, but I think you know it and i am not able to figure it out how.

[DreadWingKnight]

Stopped ones won't.

Only started ones will.

Downloads are completed in the order of the "#" column.

[kishork]

no its not working in that manner.

1. start more than one torrent.

2. keep one downloading and stop all others.

3. now how to make all the others in atleast queue? you can only start them which WILL start them. but if they are stopped, they will never start. so how to bring them in queue?

[DreadWingKnight]

I don't know what you're doing wrong, but it does not behave that way for me.

Starting the torrents (no [F] in their status) will queue torrents beyond your preferences' set queue limits UNLESS the torrent gets classified as inactive for having less than 1kbyte/sec traffic in both directions.

If there's an [F] in the torrent's status column, then it is force started.

[kishork]

no its not coming in the queue mode. stopped ones remain stopped, paused ones remain paused...

[Ultima]

Huh? Why do you keep mentioning stopped/paused torrents? No one said to stop/pause anything. µTorrent handles the queue for you in the order shown by the # column. Start all the torrents you want, and µTorrent handles everything in the order specified.

[jewelisheaven]

Pausing is a "hack" of the started torrent property.. IT allows you to keep connections while say, you want to micro-manage the torrent for something. A side-effect of this is certain clients (generally transmission) will still send you data, so it's not recommended if you don't want traffic.

What are your Ctrl-P -> Queueing settings. uT automatically handles the queue. The only way you can have more than X total and Y downloading is if you have queue.dont_count_slow_dl/ul (ENABLED BY DEFAULT). As DW says this will keep any torrents with under KiBps throughput under the "inactive" category, freeing a queue slot for another torrent.

The queue only works with started torrents. Stopped torrents are not part of the queue. Nor are force-started ones.

If you are having problems, a screenshot is always nice to help visually represetn the behaviour you are describing.