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xTorrent makes me angry

How do you find xtorrent

  • Love it

    Votes: 5 9.4%

  • Hate it

    Votes: 8 15.1%

  • Never tried/haven't used it for long enough/use transmission

    Votes: 40 75.5%
  • Total voters
    53
  • Poll closed .
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nickgwyn

macrumors member
Original poster
Sep 7, 2006
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I bought xtorrent and am beginning to regret it.

I have a mac pro, and every time I boot xtorrent up it slows my computer to a choppy halt. This is ridiculous! if it has more than 20 torrents it will freeze immediately, otherwise it just slow the computer down significantly, and will freeze it after 5-10 minutes.

It has even gone so far as to delay all processes on the computer by a minute (while it's running), and just today made itunes non-responsive.

AARRGH!

I want to like this app, but it refuses to work.

Please help.
 
what happened to all the other torrent options?

oh wait, azureus is java so it's evil and not an application right? :mad:

Don't like the app. Go use Transmission.
 
janey said:
what happened to all the other torrent options?

oh wait, azureus is java so it's evil and not an application right? :mad:

Don't like the app. Go use Transmission.
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Thank God Azureus is finally not an option anymore. Unless you're a power torrent user...(not even sure what that would entail...or why one would want to use the insane amount of options in AZ)

Transmission is tracker friendly now, and I rarely download "one" torrent out of many so....ya, Azureus is a thing of the Java past. good riddance
 
I have zero desire to use or even try Xtorrent....I like DW's work on NewsFire and Inquisitor, but his P2P efforts leave a bit to be desired.
 
epochblue said:
I have zero desire to use or even try Xtorrent....I like DW's work on NewsFire and Inquisitor, but his P2P efforts leave a bit to be desired.
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Its nice to have built-in search without the bulk of AZ, but Transmission is great for web-found torrents...
 
Weird. I find Xtorrent to be superior to Transmission in almost every single aspect.
 
x vs trans

On paper I find xtorrent a great deal better, but the damn thing refuses to run consistently.
 
I found that Transmission slowed down my G3 downloading machine and my entire LAN (ports forwarded correctly).

I started using Bits on Wheels which I really have started to like. One problem, not auto saving directory. I have to tell it where to save a download when I add a new torrent. Oh well.
 
In windows I ditched Azerus in favor of utorrent many many moons ago...but on my MBP I'm using Azureus without any problems.

I don't find that I'm suffering any performance issues...and I refuse to pay for a torrent program when there is so many viable options out there that don't cost.
 
I use Acquisition, which is also made by the same person, as the Xtorrent app. I like the features that Xtorrent has, but i'd rather know where my torrents are coming from.

Have you tried to contact the developer, and ask him if it is a bug, maybe other users with the same computer are having the same issues?
 
I normally use Azerus to download, but just downloaded and installed Transmission to give it a try.

How do I keep my torrents from being downloaded by Azerus by default, so I can try Transmission? The trorrent link I downloaded just now still has the Azerus symbol next to it in the downloader window.


Edit: Well, I just manually opened the file in Transmission, but is there a way to make Transmission the default torrent app?
 
SuperDaddy said:
I normally use Azerus to download, but just downloaded and installed Transmission to give it a try.

How do I keep my torrents from being downloaded by Azerus by default, so I can try Transmission? The trorrent link I downloaded just now still has the Azerus symbol next to it in the downloader window.


Edit: Well, I just manually opened the file in Transmission, but is there a way to make Transmission the default torrent app?
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Get info, open with, choose, apply to all
 
By selective downloading do you mean downloading just one file from a multifile torrent?

And if so, is AZ the only app that does that (what I use currently)?
 
fairnymph said:
By selective downloading do you mean downloading just one file from a multifile torrent?

And if so, is AZ the only app that does that (what I use currently)?
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I mean downloading any combination of files in a torrent for multiple files. One, two hundred, forty-two..you get the idea. And yes, Azureus is the only app (well, granted, one with a graphical interface) for Mac OS X that will do it.
 
I admit I am a rather light BitTorrent user, but I cannot justify spending money on a client while such good quality free clients exist. Perhaps if I used BitTorrent a lot more it may be worth it.
 
quigleybc said:
Thank God Azureus is finally not an option anymore. Unless you're a power torrent user...(not even sure what that would entail...or why one would want to use the insane amount of options in AZ)

Transmission is tracker friendly now, and I rarely download "one" torrent out of many so....ya, Azureus is a thing of the Java past. good riddance
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Although it would be great if it wasn't java-based, Azureus is still the best bittorrent client currently available because of the "insane amount of options" you are provided with, not despite them.
 
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