µTorrent: a how to do it guide

 

Picture this: you have a 4.18GB torrent to download (lets say 30 episodes of X-Files). You are using the Wi-Fi internet in the hostel and after several weeks you realize that the download is just half complete. Now you have your summer vacations after the semesters and you are desperate to go home and enjoy mama’s food. Back home, you have broadband and wonder if its possible to take the 50% complete torrent files, courtesy: hostel Wi-Fi, and resume downloading on another computer at home? Its possible anytime to “resume” a download on “one” machine using any download manager. But is it possible to “resume” download on “another” computer? Affirmative! µTorrent gives you that advantage.

Picture 2: you need to format your computer and many of your torrents are in half complete state. You are afraid that if you’ll format, you’ll have to start downloading torrents from scratch. Is there a way out? There is! You can transfer incomplete torrents from 1^st computer to 2^nd (another) computer.

Transferring incomplete files from 1st computer

Copy the following files from 1^st computer:

1. The incomplete actual downloaded file (not the *.torrent file)

2. The “µTorrent” folder from C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data

Setting up torrent on 2st computer

1. Install µTorrent on the second machine and paste (replace) the “µTorrent” folder in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data of the 2nd computer

2. Paste the incomplete downloaded files anywhere in the 2nd computer.

3. Now open µTorrent. You’ll see that the torrents are showing red crosses before them.

4. Right click any torrent, and click the third last option, “Advanced”>Set Download Location… Here set the path of the location where you just pasted the incomplete files.

5. Voila! The torrent resumes, from where you last left! i.e from 50%

This way you can save precious hours of downloading even when you have to switch from one computer to another

Tips

· Always use µTorrent for downloading torrents as other clients don’t provide similar facility.

· Don’t use FlashGet for torrents as it suffixes *.jc to an incomplete file, and renders a file useless if not completely downloaded.

· Use www.isohunt.com for searching torrents