Many Problems After Moving App To New Drive

[billybong001]

Recently I built a home server. Put Windows 7 on it, same as my existing computer (let's call it Old PC). New PC is going to be on 24/7 so I take the 3TB data drive from Old PC (D:\) and put it into New PC (also D:\). Both machines are running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. uTorrent.exe is on this drive - it's portable isn't it? All the tmp files go over together.

 

Then I get New PC set up and ready to go. Fire up uTorrent and all my existing 50+ seeding torrents load up perfectly. Great. Now here's where it turns ugly.

 

#1

Firstly I tried to add new torrents. Magnet links don't work. Ok, so I got to Preferences and reconnect filetype associations. Now I click on a magnet link and uTorrent shows up, but no torrent is added. I try a private tracker and save a .torrent file, try to load that, nothing happens also.

 

#2

I try to reorganize the torrents onto the new drive using Advanced > Set Download Location. Some moved torrents don't go over completely, with uTorrent status declaring Finished but only 1/3 files are in the folder. The other 2 went missing along the way somehow.

 

#3

Occasionally if I click on a .torrent file enough times it loads but ends up in a Hidden tag. I need to open the sidebar, remove this stupid tag, manually set a download location and start it. For every. Single. Torrent. Initially at least this still worked. Now if I click on a torrent many times, numerous addtional instances of utorrent.exe will start and eventually the whole thing hangs and I need to hard reset.

 

Relevant information:

When Adding Torrents settings page

Don't start automatically - disabled

Active program window - enabled

Show options to change name/location - enabled

 

Note: I will not update the program because A) it was working perfectly fine before the drive was put into New PC and he new versions are full of bloody ads and features I do not want or need.

 

The only reason why I keep so many torrents in the client is because I want to seed them. With a fibre connection I regularly seed hundreds of gigabytes each week and much more now that the home server will be 24/7. Now if the program is going to give me so much trouble I'm just going to screw it, delete everything and fire up BitComet.

[DreadWingKnight]

What version of uTorrent are you actually using?

[billybong001]

I am sorry I overlooked this information in the first post. I'm using 3.2.3.

[DreadWingKnight]

Your reasons for not upgrading are poorly founded

A> Moved to new computer

B> The ads can be turned off/skipped/opted out of

AND

We don't provide support for old versions.

[billybong001]

Moved to a new computer with exactly the same operating system. If this were a professional application with very sensitive requirements I'd accept your excuse, but uTorrent is (supposedly?) a lightweight and portable app.

 

Maybe I'm blind or something but sitting right at the top of my downloads list in 3.4.1 is a fake download bar ad trying to mingle with my normal downloads and if by opt out you're referring to uT Pro, good try but no thanks.

[DreadWingKnight]

sitting right at the top of my downloads list

Is an ad that can be turned off in the preferences.

In fact, ALL ads that are in the main uTorrent window can be turned off in preferences.

Good try, but you fail at searching.

In the meantime, if you're sticking with 3.2.x you're not supported.

[DreadWingKnight]

Also, if you aren't putting the settings and cached torrents in the EXACT SAME path on the new machine as well as the (in)complete downloads, you're setting yourself up for other problems.