uTorrent Mac 0.9.3 doesn't save preference on PPC Mac

[zorro23]

uTorrent 0.9.3 still doesn't save preferences on PPC Mac.

I'm using uTorrent 0.9.3 (build 16930) on G4 PPC, OS X 10.5.8.

[theron]

I'll check this out.

Have you tried repairing your disk permissions?

[zorro23]

Yes I have tried repairing disk permissions. I have also tried with deleting "settings.dat" and "settings.dat.old" from "Application Support/uTorrent" folder.

This is something that doesn't work since official support for PPC. I have reported this problem also for uTorrent 0.9.2 and I saw that few other people reported this for their PPC Macs, so it 's not only me.

Greeetings,

Zoran

[nickball]

Same here, tried repair, etc.

[J0hnS]

I love the app as far as it's features and download speed, ease of use....but I've yet to see any version of it that would save preferences on my PPC. I download everything to one of several external drives and have to specify that in the settings every time I open it.

Also using 10.5.8 and utorrent 0.9.3 (17226)

[zorro23]

Still doesn't work in version 0.9.3 (17496).

[slardea]

Not working for me with µTorrent 0.9.3.2.

I have to reset preferences in Downloads each time I run the app. uTorrent insists upon using the Downloads folder on my startup disk but I use an external hard drive for capturing all downloads.

[ohmantics]

I see the same on PPC on 10.5.8 with µTorrent 0.9.3.2 (18641).

[AHinMaine]

Same for me with 0.9.3.4 (18887) on a ppc mac running 10.5.8. It keeps other preferences, but not the download directories.

I'm not sure if this is relevant since there is a settings.dat file, but here is a (slightly massaged) view from running the shell command: defaults read com.bittorrent.uTorrent

{

AutoTrashTorrentFiles = 1;

LastSelectedPref = DownloadSettings;

NSNavLastCurrentDirectory = "~/Downloads/Torrents";

NSNavLastRootDirectory = "~/Downloads";

NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForOpenMode = "{794, 773}";

NSNavSidebarWidth = 120;

"NSSplitView Subview Frames mainSplitView" = (

"0.000000, 0.000000, 200.000000, 756.000000, NO",

"201.000000, 0.000000, 959.000000, 756.000000, NO"

);

"NSTableView Columns torrentsTableView" = (

[snipped]

);

"NSTableView Columns trackersTableView" = (

[snipped]

);

"NSTableView Hidden Columns torrentsTableView" = (

[snipped]

);

"NSTableView Hidden Columns trackersTableView" = (

[snipped]

);

"NSTableView Sort Ordering torrentsTableView" = (

);

"NSTableView Sort Ordering trackersTableView" = (

);

"NSWindow Frame MessageLog" = "218 136 480 292 0 0 1280 1002 ";

"NSWindow Frame Preferences" = "289 830 540 172 0 0 1280 1002 ";

"NSWindow Frame mainWindow" = "18 175 1160 801 0 0 1280 1002 ";

SULastCheckTime = 2010-04-07 08:33:36 -0400;

SULastProfileSubmissionDate = 2010-04-05 09:08:42 -0400;

SUSendProfileInfo = 1;

SeedRatioCopy = 1500;

SidebarSelection = 1;

WebKitDefaultFontSize = 11;

WebKitStandardFont = "Lucida Grande";

detailViewHeight = 315;

infoPaneVisible = 1;

"mainSplitView.position" = 200;

savedSplitterPosition = 440;

selectedInfoTab = 2;

}

I see nothing in there related to storing directory preferences, just references to where it keeps track of the last directories visited. I confirmed these results against the contents of physical plist file ~/Library/Preferences/com.bittorrent.uTorrent.plist as well.

Here is the system.log from starting up utorrent:

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50a590 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcde30 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50af70 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcde54 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50ca40 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcde80 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50c5e0 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcdeac 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50ca60 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcded8 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50ca80 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcdefc 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x50c510 of class NSCalibratedRGBColor autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking\nStack: (0x95304dac 0x95231e14 0xcdf20 0x8fe13834 0x8fe0f248 0x8fe0f36c 0x8fe03848 0x8fe08144 0x8fe01774 0x8fe01048)

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: Could not find image named 'SplitViewGrabber'.

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: Could not find image named 'HideStats'.

Apr 7 08:50:59 powermac uTorrent[5214]: Could not find image named 'ShowStats.tiff'.

Apr 7 08:51:00 powermac uTorrent[5214]: **** Posting Msg: BitTorrent_TorrentFileAdded ****

Apr 7 08:51:02 powermac uTorrent[5214]: *** _networkReachabilityChangedCallback got flags: -r-----

Apr 7 08:51:02 powermac uTorrent[5214]: networkReachabilityDidChange: NSConcreteNotification 0x17f385b0 {name = BitTorrentNetworkReachabilityDidChangeNotification; object = 1}

No log messages appear when I attempt to change the download directory.

I checked permissions and then verified by doing "find ~/Library -not -user <my username>" to reveal all files not owned by me.

Running strings on the settings.dat file does show settings for "dir_active_download" and "dir_autoload" and those values are set to the directories that I've chosen. Despite having the correct values, when I start utorrent, those particular settings are ignored.

Let me know if there's any other helpful info I can provide.

[NoOneButMe]

settings.dat is a bencoded file that µTorrent stores connection settings in. com.bittorrent.utorrent.plist only holds mac-specific settings.

The console output is over a leak, not something related to settings not being saved. Or not finding some specific images (which is harmless, even if it is also irritating).

[kidhack]

Got the same issue. G5, used to save preferences / settings and now it doesn't. Deleted all settings and application support files, but nothing seems to help.

PLEASE PLEASE FIX!

(or just remove the preferences and stop teasing us!)

[Scalawag]

G5 here too. Had this problem as long as I've been using uTorrent. Makes the Downloads folder default which is really annoying, since that's on my OS drive and not a storage volume. 0.9.3.5

I'm also getting horribly fluctuating speeds + that weird decimal place error, but that's for another thread..

[AHinMaine]

Upgraded to 0.9.3.5 (18975) this morning. Same problem. Tried killing the settings.dat, no help.

[kidhack]

does anyone know if this bug has been logged or if anyone one is working on fixing it???

[Firon]

We've fixed this on 0.9.3.6. Please check it out!

[kidhack]

Thanks!

[brennanyoung]

Just downloaded the latest - Version 0.9.3.10 (19343) - and even though on first run it had once again 'forgotten' my settings, I quit and reran the program and voilà! It seems to be fixed now. Thanks! (PPC G4, non-startup volume used for downloads)

[Firon]

Yeah, all old PPC settings files were completely broken, so it throws them away and starts fresh.