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By: One system, two versions of uTorrent installed - How?

One system, two versions of uTorrent installed - How? — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:40:35 +0000

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By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:20:03 +0000

Patrick, I recently ran into an issue with my portable uTorrent. If you are using the PortableApps version of uTorrent, you might be able to fix the problem just by changing the directory you save files to.

Go into Preferences, select Directories, and change the directory name to whatever the flash drive is labeled as.

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:29:28 +0000

Ah, let me try again.

1. On the old computer, in uTorrent, write down each directory in the settings.
2. Copy the uTorrent over to the new computer, along with the files that were partially downloaded, and all the *.dat files.
3. On the new computer, edit each .dat file in notepad or any other text editor. Do a find-and-replace in each file, replacing each directory (e.g. c:\incomplete_torrents) with the new location for that stuff (e.g. d:\incomplete_torrents_new_dir).

If all your directories are exactly the same on both computers, you won’t have to do any of that replacing.

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:56:49 +0000

Well, thnx for the answer, i really don understand at all , the meaning of “do a find a replace” but whatever, as u say, it is not portable, so, i just have to download the items into a single pc.

but anyways thnx xD

By: Gil

Gil — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:34:27 +0000

Open the .dat files in notepad and do a find-and-replace to change the old directories to new directories. It’s not *really* portable, but it’s a possible method to migrate.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:38:34 +0000

hey, i’ve been tryin to use this “portable” version, and it doesnt work, because each time i change of pc, the files appears broken, and i cannot re-start the files.

So can some1 tell me what can i do? i dont understand very well the indications, because i’m a simply user, so i hope to get help from some1.

I use Windows XP.

By: Gil

Gil — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:18:06 +0000

Note, however, that it never becomes truly portable, it just can be moved around a bit. I had the incomplete and complete folders set to “.\incomplete” and “.\complete”, and this will work (relative directories to your uTorrent.exe file). However if you then decide to move the entire folder, even if your relative directories are still relative, uTorrent stores the full paths of where your unfinished files are. You can go into the .dat file(s?) and do a find/replace of the directory that the uTorrent.exe file is now in place of where it used to be, and that worked file for switching all my uTorrent files to a new folder.

This makes it a bit of a pain if, say, your uTorrent portable is on a USB stick with the relative directories, and each computer you plug your stick into interprets the drive as a different letter. You’ll need to edit the .dat files each time you change computers.

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By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:06:59 +0000

Find existing settings files (including settings.dat), copy to utorrent dir – portable and settings amazingly saved. :)