All torrents deleted from uT window after computer crash: how resolve?

[moogly]

Hello.

I use uT 1.8 and WinXP SP3.

PROBLEM:

My computer was freezing and stayed blocked so I decided to turn off with ON/OFF button (forced shutdown) and of course uT was running.

When I restarted my computer then uT, I saw the uT window (torrent queue) was EMPTY ! All my 50 torrents was deleted from uT. :/

So I checked %AppData%\uTorrent folder and .torrent files are present with settings.dat (.old) and resume.dat (.old) too.

QUESTION: (maybe with a final 's')

1/ How a forced shutdown of computer can remove all the torrents in uT queue ?

(just for my personal knowledges...)

2/ Now I will try to reload my torrents in uT. I tested the auto-load procedure, but that works fine only for "grouped" torrents with same properties (download folder, etc...).

But each of my 50 torrents had a specific final download folder and sometimes only one part of the torrent was leeched/seeded.

So is it possible to auto-reload all my torrents with their specific properties saved in resume.dat or somewhere (back-up file) ?

Thx in advance for your help. Ciao.

[thelittlefire]

... if your resume.dat.old is ~ 1 KiB you have no status. That's why it was blank. If you backed up your data though you have some hope.

As I helped just recently with, I found http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=317002#p317002 and http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=287849#p287849 and give step-by-step information where you don't have a backup with data in it.

1:A) If uTorrent was in the process of saving data... it won't load the .dat file it will try .old. This may happen and fail. (A search for "resume.dat" presuming a loss of resume.dat data suggests as much... though this should happen less.) In all cases you should 1) check out your .DAT files after a bad shutdown of uTorrent, or 2) backup . DAT files regularly if you're prone to losing power/unexpected-resets.

2:A) see before #1

[moogly]

Ok thanks I will try but I'm not sure this procedure to auto-load grouped tors will keep my settings before the computer crash, especially the download folder for each leeched torrent & the selection of files to leech in a torrent... :/

[thelittlefire]

Well, you change the DEFAULT folder before EACH group of torrents are loaded... and yes unfortunately you will have to re-select the files that you DON'T want to download. Therefore, you may want to enable "don't automatically download".

[moogly]

Ok that was my main problem, but I thought resume.dat saved the destination folder and the selection of pieces to dwl for each torrent but that doesn't seem to be the case ...

Changing folder & re-selecting unwanted files for auto-reload procedure will in conclusion so long as the manual reload... :/

Thx for your help anyway.

[thelittlefire]

Well, it DOES save it, but your resume.dat was broken by the restart. Tip for the future then, if you're prone for crashing backup the resume.dat regularly, or be sure your resume.dat is GOOD before opening it after an unexpected crash/shutdown/etc with something like http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306

[moogly]

Re-hello.

I read your link and that's really interesting to edit .torrent & .dat ! Thx !

In addition I would like to simulate a "computer crash" and test an auto-reload of ONE torrent with a specific destination folder & a selection of files to dwl.

So can you help me to establish my simulation.

>>> Data:

0/ Vista OS & uT 1.8

1/ one torrent e.g. AB.torrent with 2 files A & B

2/ I decide to dwl only file A but not B

3/ destination folder (e.g. \Download\AB) is different than the current folder (\Download) where all various files are dwled.

So uT will save these settings in resume.dat as you asked me.

>>> My simulation step by step:

1/ I copy and paste files resume.dat & .old.dat (containing these settings) in a folder

2/ Same thing for AB.torrent

3/ I set up the procedure for auto-load:

select -> Store .torrents in: %AppData%\uTorrent

select -> Automatically load .torrents from: %AppData%\uTorrent\AB

unselect -> Always show dialog...

4/ I delete torrent AB in uT window but not data (files A &

5/ I put one copy of AB.torrent, resume.dat & .old.dat in %AppData%\uTorrent

(so it erases current settings, no pbm)

6/ I put one copy of AB.torrent in %AppData%\uTorrent\AB

7/ I reopen uT

For me these 7 steps should simulate a "crash computer" with an empty uT queue as result.

>>>Running test:

ERROR: Can't open .torrent file: AB.torrent

So how improve my simulation of auto-reloading a torrent with good destination folder & file selection ?

Thk you. Bye.