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okay so i had utorrent for my old family pc (windows XP) and when i wanted to download torrents, i went to the website, found the file i wanted, clicked :download torrent" and it would prompt me to either "save" or "open". i'd always hit "open" and then it would open utorrent and another window that had a large list of files included in the torrent and i could check the ones i wanted to download.

now, i have utorrent for Mac and when i want to download a torrent and hit the download button, safari automatically downloads the torrent file, but whatever. when i click on the file thats in my downloads folder, it opens utorrent and automatically starts downloading EVERTHING in that file. this is total bullshit because if i only want a few songs, or if i want one song from a discography, im forced to download all the songs in that file, which is total fuckballs. is there a way to fix this? please tell me there is!!!!

i don't use that torrent client, but i have bitlord and it does the same thing with the list when i open it. i can right click on the file in bitlord and click properties, then it'll have the list in there and i can change it

I can't be of much help because I don't own a Mac, but you could maybe try just using a different torrent client, like Miro or something..?

Have you tried look at the settings?

I use the same client, but I never used it on a mac (only touched macs that were in school)

Boni Boy Blue wrote:Have you tried look at the settings?

yeah, theres nothing in the menus that seem like they may fix the problem.

2712 wrote:

Boni Boy Blue wrote:Have you tried look at the settings?

yeah, theres nothing in the menus that seem like they may fix the problem.

The other i can suggest is that you change the setting so that when you add a torrent is does not start to download automatically but instead puts it in a saved state. Then actually open up the torrent file in uTorrent, not the window manager (by double click i assume). Then there should be a tab called files or something similar and unchecking the one you dont want.

Hope this helps and i should state that I'm onlyy guessing because I
have never used uTorrent on Mac but I have used Transmission Orbit on Mac.

2712 wrote:

Boni Boy Blue wrote:Have you tried look at the settings?

yeah, theres nothing in the menus that seem like they may fix the problem.

dunno if it works on mac version but with mine you can choose the files you want to download by clicking right button, then just go to the place where you choose speed and click don't download

tbh. I don't understand the problem.

Jake! wrote:tbh. I don't understand the problem.

He can't select which file he does and which files he doesn't want to download

he can click the torrent ago to the Files tab at the bottom and deselect the ones he dosent want...

Jake! wrote:he can click the torrent ago to the Files tab at the bottom and deselect the ones he dosent want...

fuck, are you serious? thats lame. thanks.

Use Bittorrent.

uTorrent is much better tbh

Linux doesn't have uTorrent yet :(

I use transmission without any problem, as long as it has DHT and PEX I'm happy.

You can select the files to skip inside a torrent after it has been added/started, at least in the Windows release, just go to the "Files" tab. I always have it set like that, so I can just add a bunch of torrents to my queue while browsing and then open µTorrent to go throught them again and select the files to skip.

Somehow I can't believe though that there is no option for that in the Mac version. It should say something like "Show a window displaying the torrent content files" or "Don't start torrents automatically" or something like that.