jivan Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Hi all, I had an electricity failure & even though I've a UPS, the computer restarted. While doing the disk checking it removed some *.dat.old file from C:\Documents and Settings\jivan\Application Data\uTorrent saying it was invalid. The next thing I know is that all the index with the labels & all are gone. Although in the settings I had made so that the .torrent files of finished & unfinished ones are in different folders as well as the finished & unfinished torrents are in different folders so the .torrent files are saved as well the files themselves are o.k. What has gone is the index with the uploads I was doing. There are 3 new files which are there in C:\Documents & Settings\jivan\Application Data\utorrent. They are :- Name Size Type Date Modified 6 resume.dat 2 KB DAT File 02/07/2006 02:47 resume.dat.old 2 KB OLD File 02/07/2006 02:47 settings.dat 3 KB DAT File 02/07/2006 02:25 dht.dat 1 KB DAT File 02/07/2006 02:25 settings.dat.old 3 KB OLD File 02/07/2006 02:23 dht.dat.old 1 KB OLD File 02/07/2006 02:23 ipfilter.dat 8,433 KB DAT File 28/06/2006 00:11 tray.ico 156 KB IrfanView ICO File 12/06/2006 07:20 main.ico 156 KB IrfanView ICO File 11/06/2006 21:51 toolbar.bmp 28 KB IrfanView BMP File 11/06/2006 21:49 rss.dat 1 KB DAT File 06/06/2006 21:22 Can something be done so that it doesn't get repeated the next time around. Thnx in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 happened to me like 3 times before.. i had to manually re-add 50-60 torrents..the filesystem is fat32? if it is convert to ntfs..although i lost my settings and torrents once since i'm on ntfs i had like 10-20 powercuts (so 1 out of 20 and counting is good)when i was on fat32 it was like 3/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 you could always back-up ur .dat files on your own evry few days or somethen, but it just happens sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Make sure you use 1.6, it's much more resistant to this than 1.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted July 2, 2006 Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 Nefarious yes u can..i back it up every week or so..i always have a folder uback in %appdata%/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jivan Posted July 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 I'm using 1.6 I now will make a folder called as uback & copy the settings as suggested by Nefarious as well as dAbReAkA Is there a way to use the .torrent files & the downloaded full file to make a connection so that I can just get back to seeding. Thnx in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted July 2, 2006 Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 that's how i do it:1. close utorrent2. delete the old backup folder (uback)3. copy&paste utorrent4. rename "Copy of uTorrent" to ubackif the settings are lost:1. rename uTorrent to uOld2. rename uback to uTorrent3. add some torrents manually from uOld that were added after uback4. delete uOld5. make another backup folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jivan Posted July 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 that's how i do it:1. close utorrent2. delete the old backup folder (uback)3. copy&paste utorrent4. rename "Copy of uTorrent" to ubackif the settings are lost:1. rename uTorrent to uOld2. rename uback to uTorrent3. add some torrents manually from uOld that were added after uback4. delete uOld5. make another backup folderI'm confused here, just simplify things ... my utorrent is in c:\utorrent this is where I guess the settings & everything is stored :- C:\Documents & Settings\jivan\Application Data\utorrent now as per u'r first post u have made another foldercalled uback which has the same things as in \appdata\utorrentlike a mirror/snapshot that one can take every day or every weekjust in case. Am I right so far or somewhere my premise is wrong?I'm looking for baby steps so plz. don't assume anything. I've startedusing utorrent & torrenting hardly 2 weeks back. Edit :- From the readings of /appdata/utorrent realized few things :- 1. dht values are refreshed at the time of closing utorrent. 2. dht.old is somewhat older, in my case it's 1/2 hr. earlier. I need to do this couple of times more to know what dht.old stores. 3. resume.dat & resume.dat.old give current readings with the diff. of 1 minute 4. settings.dat is also refreshed at the time utorrent is closed/exited. but there is time difference between settings.dat & settings.dat.old It would be nice to know about these files also while at the same time using a good backup procedure. Thnx in advance. Thnx in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted July 2, 2006 Report Share Posted July 2, 2006 u close the program to make sure it writes the new settings.dat, resume.dat, and the other stuffand then u backup the whole folder.. it contains everything that utorrent needs to run properlyif somehow a file from uTorrent gets corrupted (electrical faults, BSODs, freezes may do this) u can easily replace that file or the whole folderyes u are correcti have %appdata%/utorrent identical to %appdata%/ubackif something from utorrent gets corrupted i will replace it with the same thing from uback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jivan Posted July 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2006 thnx mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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