Does anyone else here thinks that utorrent 1.7.7 is crap?

[pro267]

I'm running utorrent 1.7.7 on top of wine. Whenever I try to remove a torrent + data directly from the utorrent gui (not the WebUI), there's about 50% chance that utorrent will crash. Once it does, all hell breaks loose: sometimes data of torrents get screwed, sometimes the .torrent files get deleted from the Application Data directory and sometime other crap happens. A good friend of mine which is a very experienced torrenter was banned from two trackers for HnR after utorrent 1.7.7 decided spontaneously to delete all the data of his torrents, and decided to downgrade to 1.6.1.

I just spent about an hour manually re-uploading the .torrent files and fixing announce URLs to fix similar problems.
My conclusion is simple: utorrent 1.7.7 is crap, downgrade to 1.6.1 if you can.

There, just needed to rant a little. All better now.

[Stevis]

You and your friend must have terrible luck. None of those things have ever happened to me or anyone else I talk to.

[markupmaster]

I don't see a difference..

Sorry bud..

[pro267]

By any chance does either of you run utorrent 1.7.7 on top of wine?
On Ubuntu 7.0.4? With WebUI?

[SenorBubbz]

Try using it on Windows XP then.
You don't need to install it, run it on a Virtual Machine...

[pro267]

I am running it on top of wine, which is a virtual environment simulating windows.

[naq]

I don't get the crashing problem with 1.7.7 in wine. Do you have gui.delete_to_trash = false? What version of wine is it? Maybe it's outdated. Only annoying thing is the black background in 1.7 (which isn't a problem with 1.8 beta).

[Cabalo]

i have stopped using it, moved to azureus. not returning to utorrent so soon.

[pro267]

I don't get the crashing problem with 1.7.7 in wine. Do you have gui.delete_to_trash = false? What version of wine is it? Maybe it's outdated. Only annoying thing is the black background in 1.7 (which isn't a problem with 1.8 beta).

My Wine version is wine-0.9.33, released on March 16, 2007, which doesn't seem to be too outdated.
The other option you've mentioned, gui.delete_to_trash, is very interesting actually, since there could be a problem with the way wine emulates (or doesn't emulate) the recycle bin. I'll try this one out. Thanks for the tip!

[naq]

That version is quite old actually. I have 0.9.52 currently. IIRC, when I setup a Ubuntu Gutsy server (7.10), it pulled in some wine 0.9.5#. The trash for wine by default is in ~/.local/share/Trash, I'm not sure if it might be different in Ubuntu (most likely not). Check that folder, maybe all your deleted stuff is still in there.