zoom32 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Posted January 11, 2008 Was wondering if there are plans to include a feature which would allow you to save your current settings either as a button or save as perhaps both feature. So as to allow one to make tweaks and changes to fine tune and still go back if there are settings that worked better. I know there is a file which contains these and you can manually go and save-rename and go back to previous settings but is there plans to allow this from within the GUI. ThankZOOM32
zoom32 Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Posted January 11, 2008 Is "no there isn't" mean that there is no plans to include a feature like this . As I know myself and many others whom Ive seen post , and also many questions to the how to tune or advanced settings pages. Whom this feature would help drastically as until playing with my settings many many times until I got the best possible down to upload ratios I would have to cut and paste my settings to a notepad view them change settings see how they went , If they improved Id leave them if not Id have to look at how they were and put the ones that didn't help back. If a feature like this was avail you could make any changes and then if they didn't help role back to a previous one that worked better. Since there already is a settings file I don't think a feature like this would be to difficult to implement IMO.ThankZOOM32
jewelisheaven Posted January 11, 2008 Report Posted January 11, 2008 A search for winrar under my name will give you my thoughts on the subject: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=287849#p287849 and http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=291377#p291377 for the lazy (me).
zoom32 Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Posted January 11, 2008 I agree there are all kinds of ways to create backups of your settings and restore. IE create batch file to auto backup user settings file numerous times a day or wheneverto a said dir and then just pick which one you'd want to restore and do so prob with a restart of Utorrent all of which takes a whole lot of extra doing especially for the non technical out there. Whereas the whole point of having a GUI and a good one is to be user friendly many programs have the ability to either hit a button > tab or go to save as and save user settings my suggestion is and still remains that this possibly be considered a feature for a future release . I mean we could prob do every thing command line and with scrips, batch files etc but then whats the point of a user friendly GUI? IMOHOThank all,zoom32
ignas2526 Posted January 14, 2008 Report Posted January 14, 2008 I think its good idea to create something like .txt file which all utorrent setting and allow you to import/export it.
Ultima Posted January 14, 2008 Report Posted January 14, 2008 I don't see any reason why making it into a text file would make that work any better.
jewelisheaven Posted January 14, 2008 Report Posted January 14, 2008 ... It is a text file. Opening up any uTorrent files with Ultima's BFE will show you that. It just doesn't happen to be an ASCII text file, there's binary data in them thar hills.
Ultima Posted January 15, 2008 Report Posted January 15, 2008 It just doesn't happen to be an ASCII text file, there's binary data in them thar hills.By that explanation, any executable is also a text file (you'll see "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" in most executables). When prople refer to text file, they're referring to plaintext or cleartext
ajones81 Posted January 15, 2008 Report Posted January 15, 2008 Well, one advantage of exporting to an ASCII text file (satisfied, jewel? ) that I can see right off the bat is that when one is experimenting with various settings, a simple file compare can tell you the difference between them, rather than having to shut uTorrent down, replace the files, restart it, open the Prefs etc.Exporting and pasting the contents of their Settings.txt here would also make it easier for newbies to get help from us as we'd be able to see their connection settings etc. at a glance, possibly make changes and just tell them to import the new settings.For beginners who've absolutely no idea about %AppData%\uTorrent (haven't we been asked that a million times already?), a simple export/import would do nicely. I personally keep registry exports for tons of programs whose settings I've tinkered with to my satisfaction, and I esp. love a program like WinRAR that even does the work for me!I'm sure I could come up with other reasons if I put my mind to it... Anyway, it's up to the devs to decide.P.S. Just occurred to me, instead of having an import/export from/to text, it would be just awesome to simply save the program settings to a Settings.xml file. That would satisfy everyone in one shot and the open XML format would open up lots of interesting possibilities I'm sure... Wotsay?
jewelisheaven Posted January 15, 2008 Report Posted January 15, 2008 OK OK, it's a bencoded text file. Shot down by both Ultima and ajones :* I get it I lose the argument
Firon Posted January 15, 2008 Report Posted January 15, 2008 It's not a text file. It's a binary file.
jewelisheaven Posted January 15, 2008 Report Posted January 15, 2008 ...a bencoded binary file, which is the reason Ultima's BFE works on it.Edit: because I can't sepll.
jewelisheaven Posted January 15, 2008 Report Posted January 15, 2008 I like being precise and correct yes
ajones81 Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 So... Any on-topic comments at all re. my post #10? Thoughts? Suggestions? Bouquets? Brickbats? More bouquets?
jewelisheaven Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 BFE now implements raw import export of bencoded data...
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