Enabling Scheduler stops downloads.

[toranky]

Hi. Sorry if this has been posted somewhere; I couldn't find anything when I did a search.

I was using the scheduler for a long while just fine, but I noticed that a while back, when I launched uTorrent, none of my downloads were resuming. I don't remember how I figured it out, but I guess I decided to disable the scheduler and my downloads started again. To make sure it wasn't a coincidence, I enabled it again. My torrents stopped. Every time I enable it, whatever I have downloading stops. I didn't make any changes to the settings (unless I did something by accident that I am not aware of), so I'm not sure why it's doing this. I have disabled the scheduler for now, but I'd like to use it.

Does anyone know why this happens and is there a fix? I was going to uninstall and reinstall as a last resort, but I was kinda concerned about losing my torrents. I know I won't lose whatever files I have, but I was concerned about whatever's on my list (if there's a way to save this info, if someone could let me know, that'd be much appreciated. I didn't want to have to go searching for that exact torrent again to resume the download). Thanks!

[rafi]

and you've enabled the scheduler both globally (checked) and per-day (green/full-speed) ?

[toranky]

Hi rafi. Thanks for the quick response. Hm, I'm not sure what you mean by globally (if this is in a newer version, I'm running v1.8.2), but the times to have it enabled are all in green. Here is a screenshot of my settings:

Note: I don't have it enabled. I just checked it for the screenshot because it's grayed out if unchecked.

As far as I know, aside from the range that I've selected, everything is the default settings. I don't know what could be causing it to stop my torrents.

[rafi]

It looks fine for only 3-10am ... make sure your PC clock & time-zone it correctly set. plus, the forum supports only version 2.02 users now...

[toranky]

Hmm, I had additional clocks for different timezones (for friends who are doing things overseas), but I didn't think that would affect it. My local time is correct.

I guess I'll have to upgrade. :[ Do you know if my torrents will carry over (I was concerned about this when I was considering uninstalling/reinstalling) or how I can get it to save the torrent information? Thanks for your help.

[rafi]

- first - backup both your exe & .dat/.old setting files (so you can revert back)

- then don't install, just replace the old exe with the new one and direct the installer to NOT install

- not to forget - take care of adjusting your firewall...

This should keep all your previous torrents . My bet - it will make no difference to the scheduler.

You can enabled the whole day in the scheduler and disable a few hours at a time to understand if uT is effected by any of the time zones at all ...

[Switeck]

Hold down the mouse button and move the cursor all around the scheduler area to "paint" it all one color. It's far quicker than clicking each box.

[toranky]

Thanks for the tip, but I figured that out when I found clicking the first few boxes tedious!

Thanks, rafi. I'll try that and post again if I need any help.

[Switeck]

I mentioned the old tip for anyone else who reads this as well.

[toranky]

I just wanted to post an update about my situation to anyone who may come across this thread.

Yesterday I decided to install the newest version of utorrent because, on top of the Scheduler giving me problems, I had torrents that had plenty of seeds, but weren't starting or only started some of the time. I think there are quite a few reasons to say the least as to why this could be, but I decided to see if reinstalling to fix my Scheduler issue could resolve this one as well. If not, then I would look for another fix.

Anyway, I installed the newest version and it kept my list of torrents (although I asked how to keep them here, when I decided to upgrade last night, I didn't really care anymore, so I did not back up anything). However, my downloads still weren't starting. I decided to uninstall EVERYTHING (using Revo Uninstaller) and then reinstall. The Scheduler works perfectly and my downloads that did not start before were working perfectly fine.

I don't know what the issue was, unfortunately -- maybe it was a settings issue (note: I removed settings files when uninstalling) -- but this seemed to fix the two issues I was experiencing.

[GTHK]

Well, if your settings were bugged, since you no longer have a copy it can't be investigated