utorrent 2.0 select directory window

[kaihansen2001]

Hello friends. My question is about the initial window where you can select the directory where the file is downloaded when you add a torrent.

I have all options for that enabled and the window shows; but when you select to add more than 5 torrents then these windows don't show and all torrents are downloaded to default directory.

In utorrent 1.8.5 these windows were shown for every torrent even when you select more than 5 torrents.

Is there any way to enable that for all torrent files that I add at the same time?

Thanx.

[moogly]

Yes, it's a limit set by µT to avoid a massive opening of dialog boxes if a user loads a batch of .torrents.

[kaihansen2001]

Is it possible to remove this limit?

[moogly]

As far as I know, you can't because it's hardcoded.

-- 2009-12-09: Version 2.0 Beta (build 17539)

- Change: silently add multiple torrents when more than 5 torrents are added using drag'n'drop

[kaihansen2001]

Too bad, I really miss that feature because many times I have to load multiple torrents (due to me being out of home). I hope this feature will come back, at least as an option in future builds.

Guess I'll revert back to 1.8.5

[Firon]

The reason it was limited is that the excess number of windows was crashing the client, due to some limitation in Windows. It was a pretty common crash, actually. Good chunk of the crashes we saw submitted were because of it.

[kaihansen2001]

I've loaded many times lots of torrents, as many as the client admitted (I think there was a limit from where it didn't add at all any of them) and never had any problems with crashing. Maybe you can set some option to set manually the limit for those who had not problems with it.

[Messiah]

I agree that this limit should be an option in advanced settings like moogly suggest to Me. Then only people than know what they doing may set limit off.

[rseiler]

I think this is what was behind my baffling problem, which has happened twice more over the last week:

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=67564

Sometimes I will select >5 .torrent files and open them in uT, getting the dialog, I thought, for each one, but maybe not anymore. And perhaps because I didn't have a default directory defined in Directories, everything after the 5th was put in uT's profile directory instead?! I never thought I needed a default directory before because the download dialog always remembered my last location, but I've set one now.

If it's not made an advanced option, I vote to increase the count to 10, which will probably be above the threshold for a much larger majority.

[ajones81]

+1 for making this an advanced option. Moreover, instead of silently adding torrents I'd really prefer it if uTorrent silently refuses to add more torrents after the threshold has been reached. So instead of having a bunch of torrents added where I didn't even get a change to select the files I want, I'd rather that only 5 (or 10 or whatever the advanced setting is) were added with the dialog, and the rest refused so that I can add them once again and thus have the dialog show up for them.

Please consider this, 'cos the changed behavior is IMO not the most user-friendly. I frequently select 10 or so torrents in Windows Explorer and press Enter, then select files from each and add them. But as long as 2.0 behaves in the current manner, I'll be forced to revert to 1.8.5, and I so do not want to do that.

[rseiler]

I don't know about a silent refusal, since that seems the worst of all possible options. It would be too easy to overlook that you're not getting prompted for all torrents, so there would be a real danger of your not downloading all of them.

[ajones81]

Was just a suggestion. How about this then - if you drag/drop or double-click on more torrents than defined in gui.open_max_torrents (a new Advanced option), then you'll see dialogs for the number defined by you (or the default), and finally an alert window saying only x torrents allowed at a time. So you'll know some have been ignored and can reopen those again.

Also, suppose gui.open_max_torrents=5, you have 3 torrents loaded, and you add 6 of which 2 are already loaded (i.e. part of those initial 3), then 6-2=4 and 4<5, so even if though you added 6, only 4 were new and thus ideally all 4 should have dialogs pop up for them.

This behavior IMO would strike a fine balance between leaving it unbounded (like it was prior to uTorrent 2.0), and not even displaying dialogs for some torrents (which is bound to confuse/irritate people as well). What do you think?

[rseiler]

That sounds like a plan. But my real question:

Is there a crack for uTorrent?

I kid, but this reminds me, unfortunately, of the half-open connection limit that Windows had for about 5 years, and all the energy that was expended trying to work around it. MS eventually removed it.

What kind of "limitation in Windows" (and which Windows, XP or anything up to 7?) causes a problem for many uTorrent windows in the first place? I'm curious, because the only thing I can relate to this would be hitting GDI limitations, which are pretty high in x86 OS's and (I think) unlimited in x64. Normally it's only possible when the app has a GDI leak, so it must be something else. Has this problem ever been seen in x64?

[Firon]

This isn't the same as GDI resource limits. There just seems to be a practical limit to how many windows you can have open in a thread before the app crashes.

[Firon]

By the way, the limit will be raised to 100 in the next build of 2.0.1.

[ajones81]

@Firon: Nice to hear that the devs finally responded to this user request. I guess they chose 100 'cos it shouldn't crash the client, plus 100 is more than enough in terms of torrents one might want to open simultaneously.

[kaihansen2001]

Good to know my request was heard. Thanks to the great utorrent staff to bring us this awesome soft.

[a7a]

When will build 2.0.1 come out?

while waiting, is there a setting to change it for now???

[DreadWingKnight]

A few days ago.

Go check the announcements section of the forums.

[a7a]

My mistake thanks