Authored by GASTRIC - please share freely!!!
Tested to function on WinXP only, though it should
work on all Windows platforms.
PROBLEM
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uTorrent cannot successfully monitor network
shares for new torrents. Thus it cannot
successfully auto-load new torrents from these
network shares.
In my environment I have a home server running
that manages all of the network
shares/storage/backups/etc. and a small Virtual
Machine (VM) purely to download torrents. However,
the VM has no direct access to the server drives
it's running on, and the network torrent directory
is on the server, thus the VM has to access the
actual .torrents via shares like all other
machines on the network. And so I cannot have the
VM reliably auto-load the torrents from the
network share. Whew! What a dilema.
SOLUTION
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Use these scripts to automatically copy torrents
from network shares to your local drive. Then
uTorrent can always successfuly auto-load the
torrents for you since it has absolutely no
problem reliably auto-loading torrents from local
drives. Bingo!
INSTRUCTIONS
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Extract all files to the same directory on the
computer running uTorrent. Then do the
following:
1. Open uTorrent directories preferences, check
'automatically load .torrents from' and choose a
local directory such as C:\torrents
2. Modify the VARIABLES in the SET section of the
.BAT file to match your directories (otherwise it
won't work). You can edit the .BAT in Notepad.
3. Place a shortcut to the .BAT file in your
Startup folder so it automatically runs at Windows
startup
4. Configure the shortcut properties to 'Run
minimized' if you desire so it will sit quietly in
your Taskbar
Note that running the .BAT file will cause a
Command Prompt window to always be running on your
computer. It will visibly log it's activity in
case you want to check the window for what it's up
to. However, if you close/exit the Command Prompt
window the .BAT will no longer be running, thus no
longer monitoring your torrents.
If you wish to run the .BAT file invisibly, you
can configure the .VBS file to run at Windows
startup instead of the .BAT The .VBS simply runs
the .BAT for you, but you will not physically see
the .BAT running. The advantage using the .VBS is
that it cannot be accidentally closed since it is
not at all visible. This disadvantage is you now
have no way to turn it off as it doesn't appear as
a running program. You would have to remove it
from Startup, then restart Windows.
Note I'm absolutely, positively NOT a computer
programmer. So there very well could be a much
better way to accomplish this same task. Or even a
better way to construct the code in the .BAT
script. But it appears to work, and work well, so
I'm sharing.
Enjoy.