jollyreaper Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Hi, new poster to the forum. Also new to the mac so am still undergoing the learning curve. I've been a long-time user of utorrent on the PC and am very happy with it. I was caught up in the confusion of the .9.1 update. The previous version of utorrent had been a dream with fast connections and minimal hassle. My experience with .9.1 pretty much mirrored the descriptions of everyone else here. Seeing as I had nothing new to contribute for troubleshooting, I decided to roll back to the previous version. I deleted the utorrent package from the app folder and did a restore from time machine. Strangely enough, the behavior of utorrent was no longer that of the previous version but did some of the strange things that .9.1 was doing such as randomizing my ports when randomize was not selected, getting yellows and reds at odd times, and so forth. Wanting to make sure I had a completely pristine version, I put the utorrent app in the trash can once more and downloaded .9.0.4 fresh. Strangely enough, after install I see that all of my old settings were preserved. As I understand it, Apple is nicer than Windows about installing strange crap in strange places, no dll's copied to common folders, everything related to the app should be in the app folder. But is this not the case with utorrent? With highly seeded torrents I can pull around 400k/sec. This would be like a linux distro, tons of people seeding and leeching. I can get that speed on my Windows laptop with utorrent and I used to be able to do so with my mac mini and utorrent prior to the .9.1 upgrade attempt. (mini is running 10.5 leopard, latest patches.) No matter how I tweak the settings at this point, I'm limited to around 100k/sec which is about a quarter of the speed I'm capable of. So, any tips would be appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOneButMe Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Preferences are in ~/Library/Preferences. Application Data is in ~/Library/Application Support. Its fairly standardized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyreaper Posted February 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 Would utorrent's preferences be named for utorrent or come in under something else? Did not see anything named as such, checked the last edited date and none of the ones for today were utorrenty-looking. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOneButMe Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 ~/Library/Application Support/uTorrent and ~/Library/Preferences/com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyreaper Posted February 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 Ah, I see. They're under the user folder rather than the system folder. OS X will still take some getting used to. Funny that these files don't come up by default under finder -- must be some setting to exclude system files like this from the usual search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOneButMe Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 ~ means $HOME, which means /User/(username)/. Its common across *nix operating systems. And Spotlight doesn't index ~/Library/*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overlook Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 use http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25276/appcleanerAppCleaner allows you to uninstall your apps more easily.It searches the files created by the applications and you can delete them quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoOneButMe Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 It does a a spotlight search for the app name. It can (and does) miss files on occasion. Relying on it isn't the best thing in the world to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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