2 quick questions about uTorrent and Thunderbird

Borden · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:07

Hi all,

I've just managed to get Thunderbird working with hotmail since doing a reformat and when i view my inbox i have to double click the emails to view them whereas before i reformatted i just clicked on them and there was a preview pane. How do i get this back?

Also, uTorrent doesn't seem to want to close with windows and i end up with the 'This Program is not responding' dialog box.

Thanks

uk_viper · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:10

what version of utorrent you using?, personally i would reccomend azereus but anyway

Borden · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:13

uk_viper said:
what version of utorrent you using?, personally i would reccomend azereus but anyway

1.4.1 BETA

I've never tried any other programs cause i like utorrent so much

uk_viper · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:16

i would admit utorrent is easy to use, currently my other machine uses 1.4 and seems to work fine, it might be better to use a stable version rather than the BETA as it is still in development

Borden · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:21

uk_viper said:
i would admit utorrent is easy to use, currently my other machine uses 1.4 and seems to work fine, it might be better to use a stable version rather than the BETA as it is still in development

Do you think that'll fix the problem?

I've got active downloads, will i be able to just carry them on with the other version of utorrent?

Thanks

whitecrook · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:25

i used to use utorrent for a while, best win client imho, but It did start acting weird. Torrents would dissappear and stuff. but still download.

Anyway, back to good old btlaunchmanycurses on a headless linux box. Never failed me.

You should just be able to copy your part downloaded files to your new d/l dir and your next torrent program will continue where they left off...

Borden · 1 Mar 2006 at 19:36

whitecrook said:
i used to use utorrent for a while, best win client imho, but It did start acting weird. Torrents would dissappear and stuff. but still download.

Anyway, back to good old btlaunchmanycurses on a headless linux box. Never failed me.

You should just be able to copy your part downloaded files to your new d/l dir and your next torrent program will continue where they left off...

I thought that was the case, thanks

Borden · 2 Mar 2006 at 07:46

Anybody know how to get Thunderbird working how i like it?

MR_Punk · 2 Mar 2006 at 09:39

i tried using uTorrent and got stupidly slow torrents like 2kb/s, tried the same torrents with trusty BitComet and were getting speeds of 240kb/s?

bledd · 2 Mar 2006 at 11:49

you have to forward the right port for utorrent to work (mick)

mark, i've never had a problem with utorrent not closing to be honest, try a newer beta or the non beta version

pduk · 2 Mar 2006 at 12:18

mark1 said:
Anybody know how to get Thunderbird working how i like it?

Try pressing the F8 button.

Or, more verbosely, View->Layout->Message Pane

Cheers

Paul.

MR_Punk · 2 Mar 2006 at 13:33

bledd. said:
you have to forward the right port for utorrent to work (mick)

will it not be the same port that I forwarded for BitComet?

Borden · 2 Mar 2006 at 15:10

pduk said:
Try pressing the F8 button.

Or, more verbosely, View->Layout->Message Pane

Cheers

Paul.

Cheers, that worked

I'll be trying a different version a bit later on.

Thanks for all your help guys