Yomi Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Doesn't that defeat the purpose?Every time I try to start downloading a .torrent file it says it is an invalid torrent file. I tried everything it said in the FAQ, and yes, the "associate with .torrent files" button is very much so pushed.This is the first time I've tried using uTorrent on this particular computer, so I don't know if it's just the computer or what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 When you save it to the hard drive and try opening it, does it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomi Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Nope, that's the way I have been doing it. I tried double clicking it (with uTorrent as the default for torrent files) and using the "add" button in uTorrent. Both gave me the same message. "Unable to load 'blahblahblah': invalid file type!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Sounds like the .torrent files are getting corrupted or truncated somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomi Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Hm. . . how do I get it to open directly into uTorrent, instead of through saving it to the hard drive?Right now, though, it seems like it has to do with the site I'm downloading from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Associate .torrent to uTorrent.exe in your OS. The same with your web browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 CTRL+U lets you add from a web address. Also, try adding a torrent from here, these should be fine: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Are you paying for your own connection? Does it happen to all torrents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomi Posted September 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 The ctrl+U thing didn't work.I'n not sure what you mean by "paying for [my] own connection". The internet connection? Yes.And, does it happen with all torrents? I don't think so, no. I tried downloading from the bittorrent site and that seemed to work just fine. It seems like the ones from this one, specific site aren't working. Though, a couple of these torrents, I've actually downloaded from in the past, on a different computer, so I don't know why they're not working now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Can you save one file, and try opening it with Ultima's BFE (3rd link in signature) and then a text editor? If it's corrupted somehow... previously someone noticed all files had text prepended by the ISP for surpassing quota. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 The site you're using is busted if it's the only site causing trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foomonger Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Drag and drop the torrent into uTorrent's main window, is the easiest way to add a .torrent file.To test if .torrent files are valid, try "TorrentSpy".-fm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomi Posted September 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 TorrentSpy said "Something bad happened while trying to load the file." I don't like the sound of that. I think I'm just going to give up on these files entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 To figure out what's wrong with them, you can upload them somewhere to look at if my mention of a text editor doesn't show you immediately what's wrong with either the beginning or end of the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yomi Posted September 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 Eh, sorry, but I have no idea how to work that. >< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 open the saved .torrent in notepad.What are the first 2 and last 2 characters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 You can't work a text editor?? I'm beginning to think you have larger issues As far as Ultima's editor.. it was made to analyze/view bencoded data... which comprise .TORRENT files and all of uTorrent's .DAT files. You download/open the EXE and click/drag or Ctrl-O open the file you want. If it's not valid bencoded data that's your problem... but the more general text editor is to try and ascertain HOW it's not valid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosMC Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 I'm getting invalid torrent files, but bencode editor says they're ok.was trying to dl the whole wikileaks archive, inside wikileaks_archive.7z, but some files are being reported as invalid by utorrent, although bencode editor doesn't find anything wrong with them. Here's an example:d8:announce42:http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce13:announce-listll42:http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announceel44:udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announceee7:comment53:WikiLeaks release - Afghanistan_OEF_Property_List.csv10:created by13:mktorrent 1.013:creation datei1291400652e4:infod6:lengthi0e4:name33:Afghanistan_OEF_Property_List.csv12:piece lengthi262144e6:pieces0:e8:url-list57:http://88.80.16.63/file/Afghanistan_OEF_Property_List.csvethere's more files giving errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosMC Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Can you post the .torrent? (upload it to http://www.mediafire.com/ e.g.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosMC Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 these are the ones I've found, so far (still a lot to go): http://www.mediafire.com/?ilhapss4z4ff41k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 None of those torrents have any actual pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosMC Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Just noticed the file referred in wikileaks.txt.torrent has no extension, tried to fix it with bencode, but file lenght and pieces are set to 0 - is it possible to fix them in any way (more interested in the other files, though, as these are just file lists)?Btw, should I use bencode x64 or unicode, if I want both with win7 x64? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 but file lenght and pieces are set to 0 - is it possible to fix them in any way (more interested in the other files, though, as these are just file lists)Chances are, the torrents were made with a broken torrent maker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosMC Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Just checked older archives and those files were already zero sized back then. Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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