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Enormous Bug in "Set Download Location"


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All right, guys, who coded the "Set Download Location" feature? I mean seriously. I select 100 torrents, I right-click, I choose "Set Download Location" and guess what happens: uTorrent asks me ONE BY ONE where I want to move the torrents. Yes, you heard me well: I get to select the same location 100 times, over and over again. If that's not a bug, I don't know what is. ONE BY ONE.

I want to point out that I am not alone in this mess. I gathered evidence :

Bulk moving files (setting download location for multiple torrents?)

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=97632

Moving .torrent files

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=122018

Need help moving torrents.

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=121996

Moving downloads to a different drive

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=103586

Move folder

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=121578

How to move multiple torrents to new location in uTorrent

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=121206

Moving .torrent files and and content files once I'm seeding...

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=60133

"move completed downloads to" moves torrent directory

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=121134

move just the files in the torrent

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=120696

Moving torrent files to an external hard drive

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=119302

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If that's not a bug, I don't know what is. ONE BY ONE.

This is working as designed. Can it be improved? Absolutely, but that doesn't make it a bug.

I gathered evidence

If by "gathered evidence" you mean "cobbled together a list of vaguely similar-looking threads just to make it seem like you found a ton of people complaining", then sure, you can consider that as having "gathered evidence".

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This is working as designed.

Sorry to contradict you, but the "Set Download Location" feature is not working as designed. If I go to the official help page that talks about migrating files:

http://www.utorrent.com/help/guides/migrate

and more specifically under the section titled Moving files to another location after they have been loaded in µTorrent, it is said there:

In µTorrent, right click > Advanced > Set Download Location ... Note: if you wish to move several torrent to the same location you can select multiple torrents and perform the same action.

Either change your official help page, or correct the bug in the "Set Download Location" feature.

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obod: If I remember correctly "Several" means 2 or 3. Which means the way "Set Download Location" works fine for a limited use feature. When you are doing 100 torrents then there is an issue concerning requiring user input.

It is nice that you were able to point this out in a professional non-insulting manner. I am sure the effort you made in explaining the problem will push this right up there to the top of the queue. For me if I was the developer I would change the documentation and put in quotes - so you can understand - "2 or 3" next to the word several. And let you have more fun moving 100+ torrents a a time.

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It is nice that you were able to point this out in a professional non-insulting manner.

I admit that my original message contained expressions that sounded insulting. I edited now my original message to remove those expressions. (And I thank the administrators for not banning me :D)

For me if I was the developer I would change the documentation and put in quotes - so you can understand - "2 or 3" next to the word several. And let you have more fun moving 100+ torrents a a time.

Whether it is for 2 or 3 or 100 torrents, the "Set Download Location" feature always asks me ONE BY ONE. I gave 100 as the extreme figure. The truth is that I move around 40-50 torrents each week, and unfortunately, because of the bad design of the "Set Download Location" feature, this simple operation takes me more than half an hour, during which I have to click over and over again the same folder.

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