Re: bittorrent

I killed my prefs file and started new, same behavior.

I want sneakypeeks. You guys are such teases.

- Phil

On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Eugene wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:24:52PM CDT, Christian Nelson  
> <[email protected]> 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?
>
>
> -- 
> Eugene
> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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