Philippe.Lemoine Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Hi everyone ! For some reason I had to move my %AppData%\uTorrent directory into another directory. It was only momentarily and now I want to get my settings and history back. I suppose the settings.dat and resume.dat, which I have kept, have something to do with that. I thought that when I'd move my %AppData%\uTorrent directory (which contains settings.dat and resume.dat) back into %AppData%, I would recover my uTorrent in the exact same state it used to be. But for some reason uTorrent remains just as if I had just installed it : I'm not downloading what I was downloading before and I'm not uploading what I was uploading, and on top of it my old settings are gone. I really don't understand since the settings in settings.dat are still the same and resume.dat seems to contain all my download/upload history. Can someone explain to me how I could get back my old uTorrent ? Thansk !See you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Hmm... what is the size of your resume.dat ? Because if you started uT and it was blank, you have erased your resume.dat.Do you have a back-up copy somewhere else for future tests ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe.Lemoine Posted January 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 I didn't do any copy before I moved it back to %AppData% and I was afraid that uTorrent had erased it when I saw that it was blank, but I checked using notepad and apparently it still contains all my download history. Now I've made a backup copy just in case :-) Do you know what I must do so that uTorrent uses settings.dat and resume.dat ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Ok because uT saves resume.dat all the 30s, so if you let uT blank during 2min, resume.dat is erased.Tip: To open settings.dat and resume.dat you can use Ultima's freeware BEncode Editor, very pleasant to see what you have in your history and change the path e.g. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306Did you try to save one copy of resume.dat and resume.dat.old (just duplicate it and rename it), same for settings.dat then restart uT ?When you moved these files, did you change the path of your .torrents/dat or sthg like that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe.Lemoine Posted January 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Ok I figured it out, it was just me being stupid I had not moved my uTorrent directory back into the right place. It works just fine now, but thanks for your help, at least now I know why backup is useful See you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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