µTorrent (often referred to as uTorrent) is a free BitTorrent client focused on being light-weight and portable.
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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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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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Where is the “stop seeding when target reached” option in uTorrent?
I remember uTorrent once had an option to stop seeding once "seeing goal was reached". Did it go away? I can't find it now (Windows, 2.2.1).
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Moving completed download in utorrent for OSX
In Vuze you can right click on a completed file and move it somewhere else. It will continue to seed after it's been moved. Can something like this be done in utorrent?
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uTorrent slow upload speed with eSata
I noticed that my torrents won't seed at all if I connect my external HDD with a eSATA connection. I switched it back to USB and it's working perfectly fine now. With eSATA it does upload but at a ...
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uTorrent automatic scheduling program
I am using utorrent on a mini "home utorrent server" full time. And when I go to bed, I have to manually set up the bandwith limit to max. And in the morning, I have to set it up to, say, 60% of the ...
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High “wasted” on a torrent download, with no hashfails
Recently I have downloaded a game patch from a torrent. The total patch size was ~528 MB and the torrent has shown 235 MB as "wasted", with 0 hashfails. Some other things I remember about the ...
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Can you make torrents start downloading only AFTER the previous torrent has finished downloading in uTorrent?
If I have multiple downloads I can have them all download simultaneously or pause one and let the other download and then when the 1st is done I manually pause it and have the second download, ...
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If you download something to usb, is it written on the HD first?
If I set Utorrent to download files to a usb memory stick, will the computer first write the individually downloaded pieces to the local hard drive and then copy them over to the usb or do the packets ...
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How to run portable utorrent and xbmc live simultaneously from usb flash drive
I have XBMC Live installed on a USB that I can boot directly in to on my laptop. Is it possible for me to run a version of portable utorrent simultaneously with the XBMC Live on the USB and set it up ...
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Open containing folder crash
When I click "open containing folder" in either utorrent or chrome the application will crash. Anyone have any ideas as to whats causing this or how I could trouble shoot it? It just started ...
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Relocating Torrent Files and Downloads
Ok, so I recently moved all my .torrent files and the associated downloads into a different folder. For some reason, uTorrent (Mac) can't find the downloaded file, and begins downloading it anew. How ...
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Why uTorrent doesn't respect upload limit?
I have set an upload limit of 30kB/s, but sometimes it is uploading 100kB/s. I have tested uTorrent and BitTorrent and they have the same problem. I disabled the setting "use more upload slot if ...
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Why do torrents slow down my internet? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to avoid bit torrent to degrade my connection performance without limiting bandwidth usage?
I'm not a regular "torrenter", but I use µTorrent occasionally to ...
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Is there a way to prioritize one rss feed over another in uTorrent?
I currently have 3 RSS Feeds set to auto-download TV shows as they are released. I have the shows being filtered so I only download the shows and episodes that I want.
2 of the feeds don't require ...
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Super slow opening my downloads folder
I have an exe file in my download folder that I half downloaded through utorrent (it's not piracy, a legit file from people who use bittorrent to distribute large files). I think I tried to open it ...
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How do I properly stream media from my torrent box *without* transcoding?
I have a torrentbox. The special thing about this torrent box is that it's custom built, it has Windows 7 installed and I have full control over it using TightVNC.
At the moment I'm using uTorrent ...
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Is it possible to exchange seeds in uTorrent?
Lets say a torrent release has 100 seeds, and I am connected to 10 of them right now. If those seeds have very bad upload speed (I can see it from peer stats), can I add those seeds to a blacklist or ...
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Torrent: Webseed or seeding client on server?
I want to share a file using bittorent which I also offer over http.
The torrent should be seeded by a dedicated and a virtual server and by people who are downloading it to lower bandwidth costs.
My ...
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Why is my upload speed is much less than my download speed?
My download speed can go up to 1 or 2 Mbps but my upload speed barely goes above 100 kbps. I have tried checking on my preferences on my utorrent and also firewall and they all seem to be at optimal ...
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How to start uTorrent after Ubuntu update?
Today uTorrent asked me if it could update, and I agreed. After some time, I realized that uTorrent was not going to run by itself.
I restarted Ubuntu. Now, when I run uTorrent it doesn't show any ...
