utorrent 2.2.1. I turned off computer at night. When I rebooted in morning, and started utorrent, all my torrents had gone and the window was empty.There were several torrents seeding and 2 downloading the previous night. Please help. A friend told me that this is written in the utorrent forum " In upper right corner of uTorrent app is button called Toggle Torrent View - Click on that you'll get old list like in 2.0 version and surprise now your Add new torent is here :=) " Please explain.
Last edited by reuven1925; August 23rd, 2011 at 12:20 AM. Reason: additional information
That was talking about µTorrent 3, so ignore it.
If it was working before and you rebooted without
losing anything try rebooting again and check to see
that all your disks or drive letters are still where you
expect them to be.
Never turn off your computer. If you need to save power
and your screen is a picture tube type of monitor, turn that
off instead.
Search for your torrent files, starting with the locations in
µTorrent's preferences, and either move them to where the
preferences expect or change the preferences.
That's all I can suggest because you provided no clues like
which version of the operating system you have or when and
how you installed or how long you used µTorrent.
XP Professional. I have used utorrent for several years without fault.But today there is another problem. utorrent was downloading all night, but on inspecting the window the percentage downloaded is no longer shown. Last night the percentage was shown as usual.
You can add and remove additional columns by right-clicking on any column label.
The list is so big that even 1920x1080 screens can't fit them, so choose carefully.
So it looks like µTorrent's settings were lost. That may be why it lost track of files.
Maybe your disk filled up as µTorrent was running and it couldn't save settings.dat.
All kinds of things go wrong when your system drive (usually C:) runs out of room.
I always make my downloads go to a different disk to avoid messing up Windows.
Having incomplete downloads on the system drive slows everything down because
Windows reads and writes on that disk whenever it does anything at all. Getting
all that stuff out and defragmenting the disk will speed up almost everything else.
Create new folders with very short names in the root of other drives (X:\parts and
Y:\done, for example). Having a short path reduces the risk of very long filenames
causing future problems. XP's limits seem generous at first but you can hit that limit
easily when a torrent has long file names and the folders have long names too. This
is especially true with asian filenames because sometimes they are encoded to text
in a way which makes them more than twice as long. µTorrent will download them
but many other programs would have problems using the files until you moved or
renamed them.
If you put incomplete and finished downloads on the same drive they will be instantly
ready when a download is done but will also be heavily fragmented. If you put each
on different drives it will defragment the files as they finish by moving the data to
the other disk all at once. The short wait is worth it if you keep or seed a lot since
the files become scattered in a lot of small parts by the time all of it downloaded.
On the other hand if you just download, use and delete files it won't matter much.
If you choose to split the job between disks it works much quicker with two drives
instead of two partitions on the same drive. If the drives are on different controllers
it's twice as fast again even with an old drive from an old PC if you put the incomplete
folder on that drive. Old disks run slower overall but most of them read as fast as new
disks can write. Separate controllers can run at the same time without pause because
modern computers can move data from one controller to another directly. For this job
a new drive is probably no faster so if you have an old drive this is a pretty green way
to keep it out of a scrap heap, free up disk space and accelerate downloads for free.
Don't forget to reformat the disk with the NTFS file system. It's relatively crashproof
and XP can move data straight across without changing formats or resizing clusters.
Applying NTFS compression to the incomplete folder (no matter where you put it) might
be a good idea at this time. Not all files are compressible when complete but incomplete
files are partly empty so compression saves a lot of space whenever possible and even
the biggest files can be created and moved very quickly when they are mostly empty.
With new folders ready set µTorrent's Directories preferences to these new locations.
Now you can shift your incomplete downloads all at once. Shut µTorrent down, drag
everything in the old folder to the new "parts" folder and drop them there. Wait for the
move to finish before starting µTorrent up again. It will start up and your downloads will
still be visible as though nothing had changed. These downloads will still move to the old
folder when done if you allow it, so you can update destinations of the biggest of those
downloads (if you want) like this:
Right-click a torrent in the upper window and click Advanced (near the bottom),
click Set Download Location and a File Chooser or Folder Chooser dialog will open.
If the torrent is a single file choose the new location and the File Chooser will close.
Most torrents are collections of files so you'll get a Folder Chooser instead:
Before anything else highlight the "Folder:" line and and Control-C to copy it.
Find your new "done" folder using the tree view and click on it to highlight it.
Click "Make New Folder", paste the text you copied and hit the Enter key.
Press Enter again or the OK button and the Folder Chooser will close.
If you didn't move the partial download first µTorrent will do it now and you will have to
wait a bit before moving another. How long depends on how much is already downloaded.
Since this is not a simple drag and drop you may as well skip it for the smaller downloads
because even if they end up on C: with your OS they will be defragmented by the move.
Doing the above looks like work but you only have to do it once and can skip some of it.
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