redsel Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 I viewed one of the posts to find that to back-up torrents, you go to a certain folder. Well, I eventually got there. My problem now is that some .torrent files have the same name. The first looks like this: [name].[type of file]. The second one I got was of the same name but now it appears like this: [name].[type of file].1 . Now my question is what is that ".1" that I see and what does that mean? I am not sure if that is because the .torrent files I am downloading sometimes get swapped but that is just my theory. Please verify this and tell me which is more appropriate for me to use as back-up.I hope this link would make it more clear:http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7643/examplewc.jpgPS. I am sure I did not just copied then renamed those files. I even manually added everything last time and now I want it to be quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 You'd have to delete the .torrents in uTorrent to figure out which was which...not a very nice way to discover which ones are now "dead". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted August 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 I don't understand. uTorrent as the program and not the folder? I have also deleted many .torrent file on the program which I still see in the back-up folder. This also got me confused so please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 There is a workaround for that.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=419347#p419347That will delete all unused .torrent files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted August 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 Thanks for that moogly! Now i can update my uTorrent but before that... am I going to add all these .torrent files manually after or before updating? and what about the "labels" in which I placed in them? (add settings and back-up rss feeds to complete my request)Thanks again moogly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 If your read carefully the workaround, you will see only useless .torrent files are deleted, history and settings remain the same.At the end the folder %appdata%\utorrent contains resume.dat & settings.dat AND the .torrent files corresponding to torrent jobs loaded in µT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted August 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Well, now I have my back-up. Now my problem is that when I use "autoload torrents from folder", it loads up to some point then crashes, so now I can't use that function. Also, the torrents are now opting me to save the files to my D drive, but my files are in C,D, and L. how do I work around with this? I don't want to select everything manually... I already viewed the BENCODE-EDITOR but still don't know how to use the resume.dat file.this here is the link which I found to have similar problems by the way...http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=82922...where I updated once from 2.02 to 2.03 and all my listed .torrent files disappeared...PS. L is an external hard disk which I already filled to the brim. C and D are my local hard drives.PPS. I made sure my ehd is stuck in drive letter L forever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 µT shouldn't crash when you're using autoloading!Do you have some crash dumps (.dmp) in %appdata%\utorrent?If yes upload them to http://www.mediafire.com/ and post the link here.In addition I don't understand why you used autoloading. If your goal was to remove the useless .torrent files (with extension .1 etc), and save the folder %appdata%\utorrent into a safe place as backup, the workaround is enough. And in this case you don't need to autoload any torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted August 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Well, the workaround did help me in knowing which .torrent file is being used -- those with the ".1"s in it.And the .dmp file:http://www.mediafire.com/?xn8esr27ywf77epThe report actually told me to close a program. Also, what was written in the report's suggestion was to disable or uninstall it. Disabling it is the only option for me 'cause the program it was asking was my only antivirus program.I closed it but then is still reported the same problem.My real goal was to back-up all the .torrent files in my µTorrent list of which I am currently seeding, and it happened to be a lot. Then I was hoping that µTorrent will load all of it, with the existing "download to folder" setting of each torrent intact. Afterwards I will update it, hoping again that µTorrent will still have my seeding list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 A simple backup is to make a copy of the .torrent files being used by µT. You can save the folder %appdata%\utorrent too.Updating µT will not break your seeding list, resume.dat (torrent's history) stays untouched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 30, 2010 Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 You're running an old build. Upgrade to 2.0.4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted September 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 By "Upgrading to 2.0.4" do you mean to Help>Check for Updates in the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintball9 Posted September 1, 2010 Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsel Posted September 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 Thanks. Now I'm done with all my current problem.I even learned how to use BEncode program to move directories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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