The Gardon Hunters Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 HelloI seem to have accumulated quite a number of file locations in the 'save as' drop down menu in the 'add new torrent' window. This is because I've changed the location of where I put the files now.Is there a way that I can delete the unwanted file locations and just leave the active ones to chose from in this menu. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Open settings.dat stored in %appdata%\utorrent with the freeware http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306 and delete the entries of the line add_dialog_hist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gardon Hunters Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Hello mooglyThank you for your quick response. I did what you suggested to the letter, removing all the unwanted entries. When the pop up window came up asking if I wanted to save the changes, I said yes and it removed all the unwanted entries. I restarted the computer after doing this but when I tried to download a torrent, all the locations are back again and when I looked into the settings.dat file, they've all been re-instated.Where have I gone wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Are you sure you saved the changes before closing BEncode Editor. You need to close µT before editing this file.Anyway when you add a new torrent into µT, the client offers you automatically a list of destination folders to save your torrent. And this list can't be deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gardon Hunters Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Yes moogly, we saved the changes before closing BEncode Editor and uT was not open either.I understand what you're saying that the client offers you automatically a list of destination folders to save the torrent in which cannot be deleted. But what if the file/paths do not exist any more. I no longer have a couple of drives I used previously - they aren't even on the PC any more but still the drop down menu shows them. It's these (and only these) I want to delete. Not the ones in use at the moment - the drop down menu shows 10 locations but only 4 are actually current. If I were to uninstall and reinstall uT would the problem still exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Retry. I tested myself, I deleted 5 entries on 10 in the field add_dialog_hist and when I added a new torrent, only 5 were offered.Check your edit the correct file settings.dat (not .old). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gardon Hunters Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 That's fixed it. What confused me was that there was a settings folder and a settings.dat file, which is what I used. It turned out that the settings.dat was an OLD file so I did the same procedure in the settings folder and hey presto - it's sorted.Thanks for your patience and your help.You really are a top man!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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