g3ck0 Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 OK, last night I downloaded a bunch of torrents from home into a folder G:\torrents, I lsop put the standalone .exe of utorrent in the same folder. Then as I start downloading from the computer labs, I indicated all their destination paths as G:\ (so some should just have a whole bunch of .avi's in the folder, some might create their own folders within G:\). All was well as far as the downloading went and soon enough after a couple hours, all were completed. So I disconnected my external and brought it home. But when I connected it to my computer back home, all my most recent torrents I downloaded just disappeard. Not only the ones listed IN the program, but the physical torrent files were deleted! Only a couple were left. And a lot of the downloads were actually incomplete (i.e. they were corrupt when I tried opening them) and a lot of the downloads just VANISHED! Like a lot of avi's that were there weren't anymore when I got back home. I even took a screenshot of when all the downloads finished showing 100% but now they are all gone.What is happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 if you have saved the tiny torrent file in a seperate directory than it is still there! µT will not physicaly delete files unless u explicitely tell him that!The problem that you do not see anymore files/torrents in µT might be because by default µlooks for the settings.dat and resume.dat in the %appdata%/utorrent folder first!afai have read in the forum, this even when settings.dat and resume.dat are with the exe selfcontained in a directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g3ck0 Posted May 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 There are no settings.dat or resume.dat files on my external. Even though uTorrent.exe resides in the external, could it be that the settings.dat and resume.dat files were stored in the local hard drive?But yes, the torrents and downloads did disappear for some reason, it's definately not on the external and I have the screenshot to prove my sanity Also why is it that after I downloaded a file that's 2.94GB, when I try to open it, it says corrupt (even though it is also 2.94GB in size). Fair enough, so I add the same torrent again and specify the same directory, after checking the file, it shows that my progress is at 8.9%! Does that mean that I have to somehow start all over again even though I alrady have most of it done?Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Oops, that thing how to make it selfcontained is in the FAQ (IIRC).Yes, When there was just the exe on the ext. hdd than the settings files have been created on the other maschine.And when he says you just have 8,9 % of the file than it is the case that just this ammount of data has been saved to the place where it is at this moment.It seems you have seriously messed with this external hdd experience.The filesize is for no help, because even if you jsut have downloaded only 1 piece of the thousends the filesize will be shown as total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Check that you have unique folders for your settings in Preferences > Folders. And did you stop the torrents before disconnecting..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g3ck0 Posted May 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Unique folder? I set the path all to my external, which was G:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Then make them unique. They can't be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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