Lost all the torrents in utorrent:AGAIN:(

[Mihai]

It's the second time it happens.It was a power failure and when i started the pc again all the torrents vanished.The torrents are still in the utorrent setings folder but now i have to load them all again.I am very anoyed.Anyone know what the problem with utorrent might be?it's not moded and it's the last version.

[anon]

Sounds like your resume.dat is being corrupted or overwritten. Do a chkdsk just in case. Also, are you running multiple instances from the same folder?

[Mihai]

chkdsk

You mean check disk?

[anon]

Yes.

[Mihai]

I'm runing only one instance.

My windows does a dick check when something like that happens.Just when i start it.

[anon]

If you have lots of torrents loaded, it's possible that your PC shuts down while uTorrent is saving the torrent list.

Add a few torrents to reproduce the problem again, and when/if they vanish again, post the contents of uT's log (upon starting it again) here.

Excluding the directory where it stores its config data could also be a good idea.

[Mihai]

Maybe i will if i have the time.I'm starting school in one week and i don't know if i will have time for it.Ehh, back to the old and very fast bitcomet.This and a little help from filelist and torrentleech and i'm ok.I'll try utorrent again but i don't know when the next power failure will be.LOLMaybe if i reproduce one...like unpluging the pc.

[anon]

Ehh, back to the old and very fast bitcomet.

Or Vuze? Although you didn't like its resource usage, if I remember correctly.

Make sure you close everything but uT if you're going to pull your PC's plug in purpose.

[slikrapid]

power failure

like electricity problem - are you using an UPS ?


may also be the win indexing system messing with the files

My windows does a dick check when something like that happens.Just when i start it.

try it manually, win sometimes forgets to do it

Excluding the directory where it stores its config data could also be a good idea.

this reminds me it could also be the antivirus program --> exclude path from auto-search

If you have lots of torrents loaded, it's possible that your PC shuts down while uTorrent is saving the torrent list.

especially if low on RAM at that moment

[MoS]

There's a way to run two utorrent clients at time, Use it and place the new client away from the system partition, I used it and i didn't lose any torrents.
There's a prob too when the PC restarts or the electricity is off suddenly the size of the file seems smaller than it was shown, Someone knows why ?

[anon]

There's a prob too when the PC restarts or the electricity is off suddenly the size of the file seems smaller than it was shown, Someone knows why ?

You mean resume.dat?

Remember a backup (resume.dat.old) is kept, for this kind of cases.

[Mihai]

I lost them again.Darn


My sister shutdown my pc because she was in a hurry

[anon]

Close uTorrent via the Task Manager and see if the backup I mentioned above your post is available...

[Mihai]

And where should i find resume.dat?

[anon]

In the same folder as the uTorrent EXE, or %appdata%\uTorrent.