Files won't resume!

[Nabil_B]

Hye guys,so recently wile restarting my computer,I get a notification saying that 'utorrent is unable to save resume files and all data will be lost,check the space on your drives'...I cleared some space on my drives,and rebooted,the torrents I was downloading just disappeared but the completed ones stayed,and so I couldn't reboot/shut down while downloading.

I uninstalled utorrent,and installed it again..I don't get the notification anymore..but the problem of incomplete torrents just disappearing when I reboot/shut down persists! :-/

Please help!

[ciaobaby]

resume.dat has been damaged during the failed save, replace it from a backup, if you have one or read the migration guide on how to add existing download back into the client.

[Nabil_B]

How do I replace the resume.dat file from backup? :|

Also,I tried reading the igration guide,but I think I used magnet links for the downloads and can't find .torrent files anywhere!

[ciaobaby]

How do I replace the resume.dat file from backup?

No idea, have you ever made a backup? Because that is where you would get it from.

The .torrent files for a magnet load will be in your .torrent store location as uTorrent creates one from the magnet data.

[Nabil_B]

Nop,I have never made a backup...

And the option for 'Store .torrents in', wasn't even checked in my preferences! I just checked it,

[ciaobaby]

You should make backups of your settings.

Quick VB script to backup the uTorrent data files

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "*.dat", "backup\", true
set objFSO=Nothing

Copy and paste the above code into notepad, save it in the same folder as your dat files with a .vbs extension, create a folder called 'backup', put a shortcut on your desktop and use it on a daily basis.

Mine runs every time a job changes state so the backup is never too 'old'.

[Nabil_B]

So,I checked the option for 'Store .torrents in' and followed the steps of 'Loading multiple torrents stored in a single folder.' from the migration guide.

I was able to load a torrent,and it resumed (started seeding as it was completed),but then I reboot and its the same problem all over again!

You mean to save the notepad file in te same folder as where my torrents are being stored?I did that and tried running it and got 'Error:path not found'.:(

[vze2mp9g]

You should make backups of your settings.

Quick VB script to backup the uTorrent data files

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "*.dat", "backup\", true
set objFSO=Nothing

Copy and paste the above code into notepad, save it in the same folder as your dat files with a .vbs extension, create a folder called 'backup', put a shortcut on your desktop and use it on a daily basis.

Mine runs every time a job changes state so the backup is never too 'old'.

I really like your method of backing up the data files of µTorrent. I would like to save my backup to my storage directory, which is my E:\ drive, would the vbs be:

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "*.dat", "E:\backup\", true
set objFSO=Nothing

I changed the line: objFSO.CopyFile "*.dat", "backup\", true to: objFSO.CopyFile "*.dat", "E:\backup\", true

I don't know much about visual basic program, but I can hack at the code. Please, let me know if this is correct?

Thank You.

[ciaobaby]

Should do, provided that the logged in user has write permissions to the root of E: drive.

[vze2mp9g]

I sure do!

Thanks! :cool: