hippiemaster Posted April 17, 2013 Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 Hi, I have recently updated to the latest version and I've noticed that I apply certain settings but after restarting utorrent these settings are not saved. I have observed this with "confirm when deleting torrent", "confirm when deleting trackers" and with the pop up to rate the torrent at deletion. Although I tick the appropriate boxes and click apply and ok, nonetheless at restart of utorrent some of them change. I haven't figured a pattern yet. It might be a bug. Any advice appreciated.I have windows 7 x64 & utorrent 3.3 (29544). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted April 17, 2013 Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 Check for settings.dat being read only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiemaster Posted April 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 No it is not. Also, sometimes the settings are kept, or some of them at least, not always the same ones. That's why I think it's a bug. Issue was not there in previous versions and I use utorrent more than 5 years. Thanks anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 That's why I think it's a bugNo, a true 'bug' is something that can be recreated under a given set of conditions, so as this problem does not appear to be reproducible sometimes the settings are kept, or some of them at least, it is best described as a 'glitch'.If you can determine the conditions and others can verify that it also happens to their client, it then becomes 'fixable', until then it is probably something unique to your machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsillup Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 I have observed this with "confirm when deleting torrent", "confirm when deleting trackers" and with the pop up to rate the torrent at deletion.You are correct, these settings don't get saved and this has been reported. "Confirm when deleting trackers" setting does get saved in 3.4 Alpha but I'm not sure about the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiemaster Posted April 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Thank you for your answers. I'd prefer not to switch to 3.4Alpha yet as these issues are not major. I'll see how it goes and if I observe a pattern I'll let you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiemaster Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 I updated to 3.3.29609 and then to 3.3.29625 but the issue of certain settings not being saved is still there. I've also noticed that the "restore down" size keeps changing to its maximum, something that was not happening in previous versions.Finally, I'd like to ask if the "start minimized" function is working only when utorrent is set to start with windows, because although I have it enabled (and "start when windows starts" disabled), it always starts maximized.Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 Get all your settings files (*.dat) copy them to where your exe is located, and try again. Better yet with 3.3.1 and my settings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiemaster Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 Get all your settings files (*.dat) copy them to where your exe is located, and try again. Better yet with 3.3.1 and my settings... I am not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean to copy settings.dat file from utorrent roaming folder and place it into utorrent folder in program files? Do I have to delete it from the utorrent roaming folder? And is there any other file I should copy as well (eg settings.dat.old) ?Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 Yes, copy all *.dat files. No need to delete them from roaming, but who knows... if you want to make sure - rename them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiemaster Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 What I did: I copied dht, dht_feed, resume, rss & settings .dat files from utorrent roaming folder to utorrent program files folder. Then closed utorrent and restarted it. The settings were not saved. Put back the desirable settings and restarted it but the settings again are not saved. Particularly the "confirm when deleting tracker" and the "restore down" size (at restart it is always maximized). Any other suggestions or corrections of the steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 Make sure you run the exe that is with these settings. Better yet - run it "as admin".... Another option - get 3.3.1 instead (my sig). Last resort - try with an empty settings.dat file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsillup Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 the settings again are not saved. Particularly the "confirm when deleting tracker"There is nothing you can do about this, as I already posted it is fixed in 3.4 Alpha. I think failure to save a couple of UI-related items is relatively minor compared to other problems uTorrent now has which are not being corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippiemaster Posted May 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2013 There is nothing you can do about this, as I already posted it is fixed in 3.4 Alpha. I think failure to save a couple of UI-related items is relatively minor compared to other problems uTorrent now has which are not being corrected.jsillup is right. i tried all the solutions proposed by rafi (except installing 3.3.1) and they didn't work. The aforementioned issues are bugs. At the moment I don't want to install alpha or beta versions as they are not accepted by some private trackers. Thanks for the suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 5, 2013 Report Share Posted May 5, 2013 --2013-04-24: Version 3.3.1 (build 29594)- Fix: Save settings for related tab and confirm when deleting trackersBugs are a fact of life... You fix if in *new* releases, you don't maintain old releases forever. That fact that BT do that - is working against both the users and them selves. Spend resources to patch old stuff, and delay the new stuff. Just not enough resources for proper job/testing for both. Not good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joegoyo Posted May 7, 2013 Report Share Posted May 7, 2013 Hi. I've read Hippiemaster's posts, as well as the replies to them. In other words, the entire thread. I have the same problem: Noticing that I was not uploading any of the torrents on the joblist, I went to Setup Guide and ran the tests. The Bandwidth indicated Sydney, Australia, and when I ran the test, it marked this location with an "X." So I changed it to something else (I tried three settings and all of them "worked," ie, the upload speed was set, etc. However, when I clicked on "Save and Close," nothing happened. When I reopened the Setup Guide, I found that Bandwidth still displayed Sydney, Australia. Did this more then 10 times (persistent), always the same results. I tried restarting the computer, same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 I found that Bandwidth still displayed Sydney, Australia.And it will do that EVERY TIME because the 'location' isn't based on what you chose previously, it is based on the location suggested by "Measurement Lab, which, if ANY of you EVER bothered to read anything you would have known!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafi Posted May 8, 2013 Report Share Posted May 8, 2013 And it should save the last settings you've selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joegoyo Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 And it will do that EVERY TIME because the 'location' isn't based on what you chose previously, it is based on the location suggested by "Measurement LabIf Measurement Lab merely suggests, but not SETS it, presumably one can set it oneself, which is what I did. However, as I've said previously, this setting is not saved. When I run the tests again, the Bandwidth is immediately marked with a large red X, while the Network is marked with a large green check mark. If you're right that Measurement Lab is the only one that can reset it, how do we tell them to reset it? The error message says that there is no such location as Sydney, Australia. Right now, we are stuck with an unchangeable, non-functioning location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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