Very strange transmission behaviour?

[trellaine]

not sure where to post but I have been using torrents fine until today....whenever I open a torrent it's directed to open transmission. I click OK and then I get a pop up message " open executable file? ....is an executable file and may contain virus ........are u sure u want to open .torrent".

Why would this start all of a sudden. And doesn't matter where the torrents are from. I did just use magnet link and never saw that message.

So strange.

Thnaks for any help.

 

[deckard666]

Bump - I am using transmission on a Mac and have had issues with it unless I use a script that one of the members here kindly made to allow me to connect even though i still get the same error message as always "Illegal character found in IP address. IPv6 is not supported" - I was told to disable IPV6 but tried to google for it and got a few solutions but unfortunately when I tried to implement in Preferences on El Capitan there was no option to disable just the three dropdown choices of Automatically, Manaully and Local-link. Further googling brought up a terminal command for it but that

"
Disable IPv6 in Mac OS X through Terminal
Launch Terminal, found within the /Applications/Utilities/ directory, and use the following commands appropriate to your situation. Note that many modern Macs only have wi-fi cards, rendering the ethernet option unnecessary. If the Mac has both wi-fi and ethernet networking, you’ll probably want to disable IPv6 for both interfaces.

Turning off IPv6 support for ethernet:
networksetup -setv6off Ethernet

Disabling IPv6 for wireless:
networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

You can also combine both of those commands into a single string to disable both wireless and ethernet, just use the following syntax:

networksetup -setv6off Ethernet && networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

Be sure to enter that string onto a single line to issue the command properly."

Didn't work and gave me an error too of " Ethernet is not a recognized network service. ** Error: The parameters were not valid."

Any thoughts ?

 

[Weaselboy]

I think what you want to do is run this to show all the hardware then from that list pick the one you want. For example, on my MacBook the wifi is device "en0".

networksetup -listallhardwareports

 

[deckard666]

Ta - It comes back as en2 for Hardware port Wi-fi then tried
networksetup -setv6off en2

and got en2 is not a recognised network service Error The paretmers were not valid....

 

[Weaselboy]

I'm not that familiar with usage of that command. Try going in Terminal and enter "man networksetup" and it will show the help pages for that command along with examples. Maybe that will help you figure it out.