bittorrent

[Eugene]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:24:52PM CDT, Christian Nelson <zero at zerolives.org> wrote:
: On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jordan Breeding wrote:
: > On Thursday, April 13, 2006, at 12:52PM, Christian Nelson wrote:
: > > 
: > > Am I the only one having serious problems downloading any .torrent
: > > files in OW5.1?
: 
: > Are you comfortable on the command line?  If so try this:
: >
: > `file <filename>`, this should return something about gzip  
: > compressed data if this is the same bug I have run into
: >
: > then you can `mv <filename> <filename>.gz`
: >
: > and then `gunzip <filename>.gz`
: >
: > now you should have a useable torrent file
: 
: And by problems, I mean OW crashing when I try to download things  
: from, say, http://www.tvtorrents.com. Try it- it happens every single  
: time. No file is actually downloaded, the app just shits out entirely.

OW doesn't crash with the current sneakypeek release.  But it does have
a peculiar behavior (which I've also seen with other torrent sites) in
which (in the case of tvtorrents.com) the downloaded torrent file has
the generic filename "TorrentLoaderServlet" in the Downloads window, but
on clicking the Reveal button the torrent file has the proper filename
in Finder.

Have you check for the possibility of a corrupt OW preference file?


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Eugene
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