qBittorrent - file sharing client

Submit portable freeware that you find here. It helps if you include information like description, extraction instruction, Unicode support, whether it writes to the registry, and so on.
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#16 Post by webfork »

carbonize wrote:Have to agree to the lack of a add torrent by URL option or the ability to paste a magnet link in to it is annoying.
I think they added that:
What's new in qBittorrent 3.0.9:
March 17th, 2013

· BUGFIX: Raise qBittorrent windows when another instance is launched
· BUGFIX: Show human readable names for network interfaces in preferences
· BUGFIX: Fix torrent creator bug when saving non-latin path
· BUGFIX: Enable 'copy magnet uri' for torrents without metadata too
· BUGFIX: Fix a few JSON parser issues
· BUGFIX: Add support for gzipped encoded HTTP responses
· BUGFIX: Fix possibly missing "Add torrent" icon
· OTHER: Add search plugin for Legit Torrents
http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/ ... 70664.html

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yup finally.

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#18 Post by ripu »

If this is not stealth, what are the changes made? And this information along with whether stealth are not in the application description. Also the uncompressed size is around 19MB now.

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ripu wrote:If this is not stealth, what are the changes made? And this information along with whether stealth are not in the application description.
I tested qBittorrent Portable. It's stealth, as expected from a PortableApps.com app. I edited the entry accordingly.
ripu wrote:Also the uncompressed size is around 19MB now.
Size updated.
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Just a note that qBittorrent has also come a long way and now looks really sharp on Mac and PC. Think I might switch from my long time favorite client Transmission for Mac, which hasn't been updated in over a year and tends to crash on exit.

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#21 Post by smaragdus »

@webfork
It seems that an official Windows version of Transmission is coming soon:
https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewto ... =1&t=17539

While an official portable version of qBittorrent is not likely to be released soon despite many users have requested it:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/465

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#22 Post by webfork »

I've been testing this on two platforms and so far very please. A major missing piece over the previous downloader is the ability to download some files inside an archive but not others. Right now only has "download sequentially" or "download first and last piece first".
smaragdus wrote:It seems that an official Windows version of Transmission is coming soon:
https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewto ... =1&t=17539
Great news. Mainly I'm just happy to see some activity: the Mac version needs help.
smaragdus wrote:... an official portable version of qBittorrent is not likely to be released soon
I agree that would be ideal but so far the unofficial version is working well.

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#23 Post by joby_toss »

This is something I stumbled upon today; no idea of the implications:

HACKERS GRAB DELUGE AND QBITTORRENT USER DATABASES

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#24 Post by smaragdus »

@joby_toss
Thanks for the article, Deluge web-site and both Deluge and qBittorrent forums now off-line.

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smaragdus wrote:@joby_toss
Thanks for the article, Deluge web-site and both Deluge and qBittorrent forums now off-line.
To be clear, it was just the forums of both sites that got hacked and not necessarily the programs themselves. Regardless this is a real blow for both programs as alternatives to standard BitTorrent, uTorrent, and Vuse. Even the smell of a hack tends to push people way from a program/project.

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#26 Post by smaragdus »

@webfork
To be clear, it was just the forums of both sites that got hacked and not necessarily the programs themselves. Regardless this is a real blow for both programs as alternatives to standard BitTorrent, uTorrent, and Vuse. Even the smell of a hack tends to push people way from a program/project.
Until there is internet there will be hacks- such things happens almost daily as hacking has become an industry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team). I can't see a logical reason why a product should be avoided if its support forum has been hacked (as far as I know this happened even to Kaspersky Lab).

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#27 Post by webfork »

In testing, I'm so far happy with qBitTorrent but it's inability to let you select items inside a torrent to download or not download means that it won't replace Transmission. That's a feature I can't live without.

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webfork wrote:In testing, I'm so far happy with qBitTorrent but it's inability to let you select items inside a torrent to download or not download means that it won't replace Transmission. That's a feature I can't live without.
Do you mean this?
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webfork wrote:... it's inability...
Since I'm not an english native speaker that is confusing. I see "its" or "it's" used indistinctly where I believe you should use "its". Or "its" is more formal?

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lautrepay wrote:
webfork wrote:... it's inability...
Since I'm not an english native speaker that is confusing. I see "its" or "it's" used indistinctly where I believe you should use "its". Or "its" is more formal?
"It's" means "it is". Webfork should have written "its inability".
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SYSTEM wrote:
lautrepay wrote:
webfork wrote:... it's inability...
Since I'm not an english native speaker that is confusing. I see "its" or "it's" used indistinctly where I believe you should use "its". Or "its" is more formal?
"It's" means "it is". Webfork should have written "its inability".
Thanks, SYSTEM :wink:

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