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i'm using azereus on a mac. depsite the fact that all my torrents are set to download to my portable hard drive, my internal hard drive is filling up. overnight it's gone from having 5gb free to 1gb free. why is this? how can i fix it?

is there anyway i can get a breakdown of what is filling up my hard drive and where it is located?
 
sarahluv said:
i'm using azereus on a mac. depsite the fact that all my torrents are set to download to my portable hard drive, my internal hard drive is filling up. overnight it's gone from having 5gb free to 1gb free. why is this? how can i fix it?

is there anyway i can get a breakdown of what is filling up my hard drive and where it is located?
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Show hidden files ...look fer extra .trashes :)
 
sarahluv said:
i'm using azereus on a mac. depsite the fact that all my torrents are set to download to my portable hard drive, my internal hard drive is filling up. overnight it's gone from having 5gb free to 1gb free. why is this? how can i fix it?

is there anyway i can get a breakdown of what is filling up my hard drive and where it is located?
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quick and easy way is to open your harddrive - press command+2 to get into list view. Press Command+J and click 'calculate all sizes' then set list view to sort by size and wait a bit as it works it all out - open up some of the larger folders by clicking the little triangle, it'll then eventually show you the sizes of these folders - this will show you where all your big files are.

example.jpg
 
Azureus has just updated to the latest version, and is dropping the name Azureus, choosing to just call itself Vuze now.

Anyway, I doubt it's got anything to do with the upgrade (although I could be wrong, because I'm not the best versed in it all), but I've just achieved my best speeds so far. Downloading from what.cd I got 1.34MB/s, which is pretty frakking fantastic. The best I've had before is about 800kb/s, with my average at around 150-200kb/s.

I'm rather chuffed :)

e2a: meh, not getting above 300kb/s for my latest. Nevermind, must have been lucky with the torrent :) (300kb/s is still damn good for what I usually get.)

e2a, again: lulz, 2.13mb/s for my latest. This has become my personal speed record post now ;)
 
the file I'm collecting had almost ground to a halt- less than 1k/sec and I'd really like it sometime soon. The same thing is available on other networks, so if I tried swapping networks would they pick up from the partial download? What happens if I try to d/l from two networks simultaneously?- I'm guessing that wouldn't work.

I'm using utorrent 1.7.7 btw.

tvm
 
newbie said:
the file I'm collecting had almost ground to a halt- less than 1k/sec and I'd really like it sometime soon. The same thing is available on other networks, so if I tried swapping networks would they pick up from the partial download? What happens if I try to d/l from two networks simultaneously?- I'm guessing that wouldn't work.

I'm using utorrent 1.7.7 btw.

tvm
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You can "add trackers" if the torrent is exactly the same, that way you can pool from both sets of seeders.

eg, if you downloaded the same film from piratebay and demonoid, you could add the trackers together and download from DemonPirate Noidbay
 
subversplat said:
You can "add trackers" if the torrent is exactly the same, that way you can pool from both sets of seeders.

eg, if you downloaded the same film from piratebay and demonoid, you could add the trackers together and download from DemonPirate Noidbay
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thanks I'll try that. Just knowing what it's called is a great help :)
 
Now my own little question. I've been away from this "internet piracy" thing for far too long and no longer know what is good. My STMusic account has been nixed because I haven't logged on in so long and I haven't got the foggiest who or what won the waffles/what/stmusic/transtraffic/whatever battle.

Can someone help? (And give me some invites ;))
 
I need help using utorrent with a firewall. Can ultrareach or freegate be configured to use torrents?
 
oh - i hope this thread isn't too old to attract help.

I've tried to do it following instructions. I need a bunch of music tracks to use at school next week. Have d/loaded Vuze and the first music file, but when i try to open the file nothing happens. also, how will i make a cd out of my files, is that fairly straightforward?
 
Sounds like you've only downloaded the torrent file, not the MP3.

When you click on a torrent file, a pop-up will appear asking you if you wish to Open the torrent; click on Yes and Vuze (I use uTorrent) should open a window showing the file you want to download, the location you will be downloading it to etc. Once you're happy with this, and which files you want to dl (there should be some kind of tick box for this), click on OK/Open and you should see your new torrent starting. All you have to do then is wait till it's downloaded!

BTW, MGO should be 'down' with all this malarkey shouldn't he?

Once you've got them dled you just make a CD of them as you would normally
 
ok - what is a FLAC file and why won't it work? Why when i play some mp3 files does it say the file type doesn't match? why is it always telling me that the file is open/being used and so can't be played...:mad::confused::(
 
AHHH! Now it becomes clear!!

FLAC stands for Fully Lossless Audio Codec, and it's another compression system. You can either find a file converter (PRISM is pretty good, but ask around for audio file conversion software) or find the stuff as MP3s to dl. However, iTunes won't play it.
 
i found it on mp3 too.

first i downloaded it on mp3, but it was all jumpy

the next one was flac, which didn't work

the next one was mp3 but didn't work - now it seems to, so i have two of the approx 20 that i need - hurrah!

the next one won't play

so - now i try to delete the spare downloads and it keeps telling me the file is being used. and it isn't. grrr.

meantime, i have d/loaded the next track i want. on mp3. try to play it and it says:

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

????????

am close to throwing my laptop across the room.:mad:
 
If you're seeding the files they're being used. Make sure you've hit the 'Stop' button on your torrent client before trying to delete the files.

If something is suffixed as mp3 it will play in WMP; that it's saying it's a codec issue indicates they're not mp3s...
 
On your torrent client there will be a button or icon which stops the file seeding (uploading). It automatically switches over to seeding once you've finished downloading.

Why aren't you using uTorrent for your client? It's SOOO easy to use...

Ah, just seen this Vuze thing...if it's 'HD' only, all the music files will be FLAC as that's the audio equivalent.

Try Isohunt or Pirate Bay...
 
kyser - i owe you a drink. i didn't realise there was a whole window of functionality at my fingertips if i opened the Vuze icon... was trying to do it all through file manager...:oops:
 
well i guess i'm rather late to this party in regards to bittorrent ,
however , i've downloaded u'torrent , and have down loaded aload
of music off piratebay , so i'm generally a happy bunny with it all ..

i've nosied thru quite abit of this thread and noticed alot of it seems to go
back awhile and so some of links seem out of date , or checked sites with
closed membership ... anyhow my question is ,
(i'm abit of a music maker and enjoy mucking around with ableton live and some loops and things ..)

so was wondering
where i could find some Vst's and some loops .. ? ..
 
Got a demonoid invite going if anyone's interested?

Also, on utorrent, what does the yellow triangle mean next to the DHT box at the bottom of the screen?

When I click on it, it says 'No incoming connections. Unless icon turns green...' but I am downloading although really slowly.

At present ill have to wait 38 weeks for a tv show:eek:
 
You've got a port closed problem, go to your prefs in uTorrent and find out the port number you're using and try and open that port on your router.
 
Woops. Forgot about that post.

Got it sorted now. There are some useful vids on youtube that helped me out. Got some outrageous speeds compared to what I was getting before.
 
venus's-muse said:
i've nosied thru quite abit of this thread and noticed alot of it seems to go
back awhile and so some of links seem out of date , or checked sites with
closed membership
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Yep, a lot of this thread has become historical. Thankfully, the whole world of torrents has become more user friendly as time has gone.
 
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