May 12, 2011
100 gigs, down the tube
I was getting rather sick of Vuse, and the way it would hold my RSS feeds and searches hostage to its overloaded ad server. Also, I was sick of the way it seemed to be corrupting my TCP/IP stack so that my browser and mail would timeout, even when I had bandwidth to spare.
Looking at the peer listing, the choice was obvious, uTorrent. All the cool kids were using it, by an average of 5 to 1 or better.
Migrating though was not as smooth as it could be. And worse, I misunderstood how the "Set Download Location" worked because the uTorrent help pages on migration appear to be way out of date. I made a stupid mistake, and while trying to purge stuff out of Vuse, I accidentally sent it all to the recycle bin, which even worse, started purging itself without asking right before my eyes. Everything I'd downloaded for the last 6 months or so vanished. The vast majority of it from the last anime season, and not on my last backup.
Added to that the process of importing the .torrent files wasn't quite perfect either, leaving directories partially converted (thanks to Vuse's odd habit of randomly appending "imported" on the end of a .torrent's name, and the snippet of batch code in the FAQ did not work). Much hand-renaming and shuffling later, I finally managed to get all the torrents named what they should be, and located in the directories where they should be, and much to my amazement, the vast majority of the files still have at least one seed out there.
But for about a dozen, there is nothing. Most of those aren't much of a loss, current US TV, for example, which I tend to delete after watching anyway. But I lost the first season of Wakfu, a delightful French Anime, and Macademy Wasshoi, which SDB recommended, and which I only got a few episodes into. Those are seedless.
(Oh, and I highly recommend NOT searching of Undelete utilities on the web. There's "Freeware" out there that doesn't mention it's actually "Crippleware" which won't undelete anything unless you pay them, and they try to slip in some spyware in the uninstaller along the way. Not to mention all the fake sites you could run into.)
I'll recover, but I'm NOT happy. It's going to take a while.
And dammit, I've FINALLY got time to watch some of this!
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Looking at the peer listing, the choice was obvious, uTorrent. All the cool kids were using it, by an average of 5 to 1 or better.
Migrating though was not as smooth as it could be. And worse, I misunderstood how the "Set Download Location" worked because the uTorrent help pages on migration appear to be way out of date. I made a stupid mistake, and while trying to purge stuff out of Vuse, I accidentally sent it all to the recycle bin, which even worse, started purging itself without asking right before my eyes. Everything I'd downloaded for the last 6 months or so vanished. The vast majority of it from the last anime season, and not on my last backup.
Added to that the process of importing the .torrent files wasn't quite perfect either, leaving directories partially converted (thanks to Vuse's odd habit of randomly appending "imported" on the end of a .torrent's name, and the snippet of batch code in the FAQ did not work). Much hand-renaming and shuffling later, I finally managed to get all the torrents named what they should be, and located in the directories where they should be, and much to my amazement, the vast majority of the files still have at least one seed out there.
But for about a dozen, there is nothing. Most of those aren't much of a loss, current US TV, for example, which I tend to delete after watching anyway. But I lost the first season of Wakfu, a delightful French Anime, and Macademy Wasshoi, which SDB recommended, and which I only got a few episodes into. Those are seedless.
(Oh, and I highly recommend NOT searching of Undelete utilities on the web. There's "Freeware" out there that doesn't mention it's actually "Crippleware" which won't undelete anything unless you pay them, and they try to slip in some spyware in the uninstaller along the way. Not to mention all the fake sites you could run into.)
I'll recover, but I'm NOT happy. It's going to take a while.
And dammit, I've FINALLY got time to watch some of this!
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I feel your pain. A few years ago my home file server dropped dead and lost about 800GB of stuff, including a lot of anime. I had backups - on DVD-Rs, about 200 of them. Some of which didn't really want to be read back. That was fun...
For the missing shows, try BakaBT or NyaaTorrents. Between them they have just about everything, and in particular BakaBT is incredibly good at maintaining seeds even for really old stuff.
For the missing shows, try BakaBT or NyaaTorrents. Between them they have just about everything, and in particular BakaBT is incredibly good at maintaining seeds even for really old stuff.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 12, 2011 08:02 AM (PiXy!)
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Actually, uTorrent has been pretty amazing, keeping my download bandwidth damn near saturated, while still letting mail and the web function. Plus I appear to be lucky. I haven't seen a trace of ClearWire's bandwidth limiting. And as a bonus, a lot of the shows that weren't showing any seeds or peers turned some up after the aggressive DHT and peer exchange process. A lot of those EZTV shows depends on some Italian servers that go out or are under attack a lot.
In 27 hours of running time, I've pulled down 95 of 184 shows, or about 39 Gig.
Although I'm still a bit unsure of what files are ending up where. My original Azurus folder is full of empty, full size files, SOME of which are being populated, and maybe 2 dozen are in the "Completed DL's folder." Unlike what the FAQ said, uTorrent DOES move files for you but doing a mass Move is an exercise in pain as each file is done one at a time, asking you to navigate from the top level to your save directory each time, with no way to break the loop or know how far you've gone. (And I am afraid it may do something nasty if the source and save directories are the same....)
Fortunately I have enough disk space to tolerate good and bad copies of each file until I can sort them out.
I'll have to check out BakaBT. I get a lot off of NyaaTorrents. I'm going to have to figure out how to set up the RSS feeds and some search strings. But at least I CAN set those things. Vuse had no ability to edit the feeds, and if you created a subscriptions to a Search of a feed, often you'd end up with non-functional links (Especially against NyaaTorrent.)
In 27 hours of running time, I've pulled down 95 of 184 shows, or about 39 Gig.
Although I'm still a bit unsure of what files are ending up where. My original Azurus folder is full of empty, full size files, SOME of which are being populated, and maybe 2 dozen are in the "Completed DL's folder." Unlike what the FAQ said, uTorrent DOES move files for you but doing a mass Move is an exercise in pain as each file is done one at a time, asking you to navigate from the top level to your save directory each time, with no way to break the loop or know how far you've gone. (And I am afraid it may do something nasty if the source and save directories are the same....)
Fortunately I have enough disk space to tolerate good and bad copies of each file until I can sort them out.
I'll have to check out BakaBT. I get a lot off of NyaaTorrents. I'm going to have to figure out how to set up the RSS feeds and some search strings. But at least I CAN set those things. Vuse had no ability to edit the feeds, and if you created a subscriptions to a Search of a feed, often you'd end up with non-functional links (Especially against NyaaTorrent.)
Posted by: Mauser at May 13, 2011 04:43 AM (cZPoz)
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