µTorrent (often referred to as uTorrent) is a free BitTorrent client focused on being light-weight and portable.
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uTorrent disk overloaded error
I'm using uTorrent 3.1.3 and I'm getting the error "Disk Overloaded 100%" after the download speed reaches 4-5 mb/s. It lasts about 1 minute, it starts again with full speed and then it displays disk ...
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utorrent torrent auto re-order(for maximum bandwidth utilization)
How can automatically change download priority of torrents based on certain criteria?
Example,
I have 12 torrents queued up right now. And I have configured utorrent to keep max 4 torrents active ...
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Using torrent on networks which block torrents
How can I use torrents on a network which blocks torrents and trackers? Is using a proxy server the only way?
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µTorrent partially completed download [closed]
Is it advisable to remove files which have completed downloading in a multi-file torrent?
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utorrent - move all files from subdirectories (downloaded torrents) to parent
Whenever I download torrents, sometimes they have subfolders within the torrent - for example sometimes the file is stored within a folder in the torrent. uTorrent recreates this folder as it is ...
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Is uTorrent warning for nothing?
The newest uTorrent version has a feature which warns me if the file is malicious.
I noticed that it was right at least once or twice, but after testing 4 different torrents I couldn't find any ...
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Make uTorrent display seeders and leeches
Is there any way to make the current version (3.1.3) of utorrent display the number of seeders and leeches like the old utorrent use to??
What will happen if a torrent has no seeders will utorrent ...
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What does the encryption setting of uTorrent do?
I'm having trouble finding precise information about the encryption setting of uTorrent. From what I understand, it's used to hide the torrent traffic from ISPs so that they cannot make the difference ...
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Using VPN for some software but not for others?
I sometime need to use a VPN to access some websites (blocked where I live). However, when I do so I need to close uTorrent otherwise the VPN gets extremely slow and eventually cuts the connection.
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bittorrent prioritize torrents for uploading
There are certain torrents in my list which I'd like to prioritize when it comes to seeding.
Is there a torrent client which has this option?
I want to mention that hacks like pausing every other ...
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Give higher download priority to specific parts of file in a BitTorrent client?
Generally, and probably for good reason, BitTorrent clients download across all of the file equally based on various other factors. However when downloading some videos I would prefer to get the start ...
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What do Flags and Reqs mean in uTorrent?
I'm seeding a torrent file in uTorrent, and under Peers tab it shows the following statistics:
What do those Flags (some combinations of upper and lower case letters like u, h, i, x, e, p) mean? ...
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Removing “Transfer To…” and “Show Converted Files” from uTorrent's context menu
Under uTorrent version 3.1.3 (and possibly earlier), the context menu has taken on 2 new options, "Transfer To...", for moving a download to a mobile device, and "Show Converted Files", for built-in ...
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Getting uTorrent's “Status” column to respect its row's background
uTorrent 3.1.3 (and possibly earlier) has an "alternate list background color" option that is useful and lovely, but the "status" column does not display its row's background, instead displaying its ...
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force to re-check availability of files in utorrent
I downloaded part of my torrent that are in utorrent with bittorrent to the same folder. bit torrent started to check the file and found the downloaded parts exactly.
Sometimes utorrent started to ...
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Shut down torrent program when connected to public Wi-Fi, reconnect when joining home wireless [closed]
Is there a way to quit a program automatically, or stop it running, when connected to a particular Wi-Fi network?
I have µTorrent running, but want it to stop if the computer connects with the ...
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is it possible to convert direct link to torrent?
how to convert direct link to torrent ?
when you want to create torrent file, you just select your file from your computer and torrent file has made but i want to make torrent file from a direct ...
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Magnet links do not display data in uTorrent
For some reason on certain websites when I press on magnet links it redirects me to 'Add new torrent' and its empty. Size: 0B and the list below it is empty too.
Any idea how to fix this?
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How to start application on a particular time?
I am downloading a file from utorrent the file is approx 10gb. But the problem is I want to start the application at a particular time not the downloading.
I know about scheduler function in utorrent ...
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Something keeps deleting my downloaded files
I have been using utorrent for years now and recently I was surprised that I had 24GB free. I thought that was because I deleted some unused apps, but after awhile, I noticed my Torrents folder was ...
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Where does uTorrent save the file skipped/priority settings?
Where does uTorrent save the file skipped/priority settings?
From what I can see with BEncode Editor the selection doesn't appear to be stored in the resume.dat, settings.dat, nor torrent file ...
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Not able to send files with the new file sharing system of uTorrent
I'm trying to send my friend a .torrent with a lot of files from my PC. I made the torrent, but when I send her the link, this pops up:
Source computer not turned on! This will not work unless the ...
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After a while downloading torrents my network card stops working properly
The situation
I download happily torrents with uTorrent for a long time, maybe 12 hours.
Suddenly, I notice my connection stopped working.
When I check uTorrent is still downloading stuff.
When I ...
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What do all these download bar colors mean when I'm watching a streaming video?
I was watching a video while I was downloading it today when I noticed all these colors in the download bar:
I've figured out that the red line on the left corresponds with my video playback, but ...
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How do I detect if uTorrent is downloading?
I need to write a script that determines whether or not uTorrent is currently downloading something. I'd rather it just be downloading, but if I cannot differentiate between downloading and uploading ...
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Access to self created torrent on public tracker [closed]
Not sure if this is the right site to ask this, but here it goes:
Let's say I'd like to share a couple of private files with a few friends. The size of these are quite large, so I've figured the ...
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Rate limiting uTorrent and Vuze on local network
I'm doing some research about these two clients and for that I need to have a small swarm (40+ clients) that acts just like a normal swarm. I managed to get some virtual machines up and running but ...
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uTorrent not starting as “minimized” even though settings have been set appropriately
Whenever I run Bittorrent (Win + Bittorrent + ENTER) it will start minimized to tray.
However my settings in uTorrent have been set, yet it isn't starting as "minimized":
Does anyone know how do I ...
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Using Linux how to resume a torrent download started on Windows?
Maybe some torrent client for Linux can understand the metadata generated by a Windows client. Or maybe there is a Web/Desktop client that works in both systems. Is there any way to do that?
I use ...
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changing the location of currently running torrents
My torrents is currently downloading to C:\Users\Joseph\Downloads
I want to change it to another location (say C:\Downloads)
But of course the torrents (about 5 of them) have not finished ...
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running bittorrent and utorrent together
I want to migrate to uTorrent however I've got some files running in bittorrent so basically I'm having both bittorrennt and uTorrent running now.
1) I was wondering will we have any problems running ...
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The ratio / availability / added on / completed on / etc info in uTorrent?
In bittorent we have these useful info like:
But why don't we have these info in uTorrent?
Like say at a glance, I can see the "problematic downloads" in bittorrent:
But there's no way for us ...
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Is it possible to tell if a file is valid after an incomplete torrent download?
I'm trying to downloading a torrent file using uTorrent but it only gets to 99.3%... no one else is seeding anymore.
If I open the torrent folder I can see all the individual files I'm looking for. ...
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How do I troubleshoot a memory leak in µTorrent?
I am trying to download torrents with µTorrent on Windows Vista (I tried multiple versions, from 2.0 to 3.0) but it keeps leaking and reaches up to 500 MB on memory before being terminated.
Does ...
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uTorrent or Transmission web interface hosted on web server
Is it possible to host my Transmission or uTorrent web interface on my web server? They have a local network web interface, and I don't want to port forward... Can I somehow configure it to it to log ...
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Is it possible to close uTorrent when the downloads are finished?
I'm using the latest version of uTorrent on Windows 7 64bit.
Is it possible to close uTorrent when the downloads are finished?
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utorrent won't download, I think it's the firewall
I just changed my firewall to webroot. I tried to use utorrent, but the download speed stays at 0. I checked and webroot says that utorrent is allowed, but I can't find any other reason it wouldn't ...
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How does peer resolving in utorrent work in this case?
In utorrent peers tab, i noticed peer, whose ip address was resolved to localhost.
When i disabled dns resolving, it displayed ordinary ip address (not 127.0.0.1) .
How is it possible to make one's ...
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Why does my local uTorrent client work, but my seedbox doesn't?
When I attempt to download a public torrent with my local uTorrent client (on my Mac), it works great. But when I use it through my seedbox, the torrent never starts download (it's stuck at 0 bytes). ...
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High speed downloads to NAS via workstation reporting “disk overload”
After a couple of years of down- and uploading files (mostly by torrents) directly to the hard drive of my workstation, I recently set up a NAS to handle storage and the read/write load. That, of ...
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Is there a way I can choose what individual files to download within a .torrent?
Is there a way to get the list of files under the files tab without the download starting? Sometimes I am after a single file within a torrent, however, to see the list, I need to start downloading.
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Easy way to rename a category in uTorrent?
I know how to do it manually:
create a temporary category
select all links (CTRL-A) and move them to temporary category
create desired category
move all links to desired category
delete temporary ...
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how to resolve issue of I/O when torrent checking on utorrent?
My question is about file checking on utorrent. i have a torrent which size is 44 gigs. i think that the download has completed but i could not mean that. when i add this torrent to the queue and that ...
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How to migrate from uTorrent to BitComet
I've been using uTorrent for long time, I have a lot of files for seeding to keep my rates. Now I want to use BitComet client because it looks better for me.
The problem is that how to move all ...
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Is there a way to share torrent downloads between users in a same PC?
I'm running uTorrent under Windows 7 Ultimate and I was wondering if there's a way to get uTorrent to download the same torrents for each user in the computer. For instance, let's say I start ...
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uTorrent - download all *new* items in an rss feed?
In uTorrent, you can specify "Do not download automatically" or "Download all automatically".
The problem with the latter option is that it immediately tries to download all items in the feed, and I ...
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How to host/use a private tracker
How do I use or host a private tracker in u torrent. I need to link my friends torrents and mine. I don't exactly know how these work so I would like some detailed infomation.
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Failed to open my port for upload purpose \ UTorrent
when doing the download\upload test in UTorrent program it claims my port is not open (Default 17690).
After I plugged my machine directly to the modem (suspect of port forwarding not working), after ...
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Open Port \Win 7
when doing the download\upload test in UTorrent program it claims my port is not open (Default 17690).
After I plugged my machine directly to the modem (suspect of port forwarding not working), ...
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Extreme speed fluctuation when downloading torrents
I am downloading the new Ubuntu release, and the speed fluctuates a lot. By a lot, I mean it is 500 kB/s one minute, and 1 kB/s the other (not exaggerating). It seems to have slow and fast "periods".
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