Bit Torrent Problems

[apexdesign]

Iam having trouble opening up Bittorrent for macosx, when click on the app, it just quits again.

Any Help

 

[SilentPanda]

What version of OS X are you using? What version of StuffIt Expander are you using to extract the bittorrent client? What BitTorrent Client are you using?

 

[apexdesign]

Hi

Iam on Mac osx 10.2 using stuffit expander version 8.0 and current version of bittorrent 3.4.2

 

[Nermal]

There's your problem. StuffIt 8.0 often doesn't decompress properly (I think it doesn't mark executables). Upgrade to the latest version and try again.

 

[crazzyeddie]

I think its a problem with 10.2. The version of Perl in 10.2.8 is different than in 10.3.

 

[Makosuke]

Although I'd also guess Stuffit is your problem (I don't think the Mac BT client is written in Perl, and I'm pretty sure I used that version under 10.2 anyway), I'd recommend downloading Azureus and giving it a try if you don't have a dual processor Mac.

Azureus is more complicated to figure out how to use, and is a Java application, but has WAY more features, and in my experience works much better than the "official" BitTorrent client. Not that bad, anyway.

If, however, you have a Mac with two processors (G4 or G5) then you DON'T want to use Azureus unless you need its features--there's a bug in Apple's Java that causes crashes after a while with some Java apps that do a lot of networking, which is exactly what Azureus does.

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

The dual problem in Azureus has been fixed in the latest version (or at least has for me).

 

[mainstreetmark]

Iam having trouble opening up Bittorrent for macosx, when click on the app, it just quits again.

Any Help

I had the same thing. It seemed to work well from the original DMG, but not once it was launched off the harddrive.

Try using Tomato Torrent instead.