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uTorrent stuck at 0.0% checking

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If uTorrent gets stuck at 0.0% checking, I recommend making sure all magnet links have downloaded their appropriate metadata (filenames etc.) and then shutting down uTorrent. After shutting down uTorrent, start it back up and give it a moment. Your torrents will likely now go past the 0.0% checking stage 🙂 Here are some more links and tips if that does not work for you: uTorrent – Checked 0.0% (Page 1) / Troubleshooting https://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=111756I just updated uTorrent to uTorrent 3.1

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Upgrade to uTorrent 3.3 Stable? [yes]

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uTorrent has been making some nice performance changes and bug fixes lately, here are the latest: µTorrent 3.3 gets a dramatic rewrite to its disk i/o, which means noticeable performance gains in multi-tasking.  For example, you can delete files from a torrent or move torrents to a new location, but without the usual slow-down in torrent downloading.  Or, download torrents to two different drives, but with the speed of downloading to a single drive. You’ll notice gains at both low

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uTorrent stopped, cannot start [SOLVED]

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Q. I am having trouble with my uTorrent program. 🙁 Everything had been working great but now everything is stopped and I cannot get it to connect and download. I have made sure nothing is paused/stopped and I even tried ‘Force Start’ but that didn’t even work. Then things would work again for a bit and stop, it is driving me CRAZY! My internet connection is fine and nothing has changed there. I am hoping you have a suggestion to

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uTorrent vs Transmission on Mac OSX Lion

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Well, I bought a Mac. Specifically a MacBook Air 11.6″ notebook. It is the best ultralight travel computer I could find. I had known the MacBook Airs were good little computers for quite some time, but after they did away with the backlit keyboard a while back I scratched them off of my “short list” of top notebook. Well, they re-added the backlit keyboard and they also put in some spicy new CPUs and nice big SSD options. So I

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Move torrent to top/bottom of queue in utorrent

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Question: How do you quickly move a torrent to the top or bottom (all the way up or down) of the utorrent queue? Answer: Hold the Shift key down while you press the utorrent up or down arrow icons. (the up/down icons look like blue arrows) 🙂 Top Search Terms:utorrent move to top of queue (21)utorrent move up queue (19)utorrent move to top (14)move up queue utorrent (6)utorrent queue (5)utorrent move queue (5)utorrent move up queue key (4)bittorrent move to

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