trying to understand Vuze/downloading
February 10, 2010 9:26 AM Subscribe
I am having problems w/ Vuze, downloading, and launching. Let me be clear that this is pretty new to me, and though I read a no. of answers to questions, and tried a few fixes, nothing helped; I may have done more harm.
I am using mac 10.4.11.
At first I simply downloaded from Pirates Bay, using sources that had good comments, thinking that would slightly help me avoid problems. They opened, downloaded and launched in Vuze. I launched directly from there.
Then launch wouldn't show...only play, and i'd be presented w/ a bunch of folders. Made no sense, so I deleted. Tried, as vuze suggested, to change media player, under plug-ins, close, and nothing changed. What WAS my media player? It just said default. Tried to find it.
Then downloaded- utorrent. Bittorrent is only good for Mac 10.5. I have- limewire, quicktime, realplayer. (don't know if any of these matter, just for information)
So just now, I downloaded another from *pirate*'s, telling it to open in Vuze, nothing showed up in Vuze, but the download appeared on desktop w/ limewire! Part of my issue may be to understand the various extensions in Pirates, so i am getting the correct one; but something else is not right. Can someone, speaking very clearly, (cause all this confuses me!) suggest a fix? Let me start off simple, where maybe I don't need to reconfigure for a hundred different formats(?), and can learn downloading/torrents at a snails/newbie pace?
Should I reload Vuze? Or is there a better way to download out there? thanks so much
At first I simply downloaded from Pirates Bay, using sources that had good comments, thinking that would slightly help me avoid problems. They opened, downloaded and launched in Vuze. I launched directly from there.
Then launch wouldn't show...only play, and i'd be presented w/ a bunch of folders. Made no sense, so I deleted. Tried, as vuze suggested, to change media player, under plug-ins, close, and nothing changed. What WAS my media player? It just said default. Tried to find it.
Then downloaded- utorrent. Bittorrent is only good for Mac 10.5. I have- limewire, quicktime, realplayer. (don't know if any of these matter, just for information)
So just now, I downloaded another from *pirate*'s, telling it to open in Vuze, nothing showed up in Vuze, but the download appeared on desktop w/ limewire! Part of my issue may be to understand the various extensions in Pirates, so i am getting the correct one; but something else is not right. Can someone, speaking very clearly, (cause all this confuses me!) suggest a fix? Let me start off simple, where maybe I don't need to reconfigure for a hundred different formats(?), and can learn downloading/torrents at a snails/newbie pace?
Should I reload Vuze? Or is there a better way to download out there? thanks so much
wow, that does sound confusing. here's what I do when i download stuff:
I use vuze or utorrent, either works just fine. lately, I've taken to using utorrent more because vuze has become huge and unwieldy because they're trying to turn it into a one-stop media distribution channel and I only want it for torrents. so try this:
on your mac, click download a torrent from somewhere. do it by right clicking the link and selecting "Save Link As..." and then saving it on your desktop.
when it's there, right click the file and select "get info."
a window will open, with several sections. General, More Info, Name & Extension, and some others. Look in the section labeled "Open with:" you may have to click the triangle next to it to see what's in that section. the triangle should be pointing down, then you can see a drop down menu there you can click on. click it and select "vuze" (or utorrent, if you prefer) from the list. if it's NOT in the list, click "Other..." when you do, a window should open up with a list of your applications in it. scroll down to vuze or utorrent and click it. then check the "always open with" box, and click "Add."
back in the "get info" window, the drop down box should now say "vuze" or "utorrent." underneath that, there is a button that should say "Change All..." click that.
now, all torrents should open in whichever program you chose whenever you download them.
from that point on, you should, as TheRaven said, open the files you download OUTSIDE of the torrent application. to do this, you need to know where they're downloading to. If you don't know where they're downloading to, you can right click the file you downloaded from the list in vuze, and click "reveal in finder" or "show file location," or "open containing folder" or something like that. i'm sorry I can't be more specific. i'm at work and don't have these programs installed here. basically, you want to click something in that right click menu that will show you the file you downloaded in the folder it was downloaded to. THEN, just double click the file to run it from there. everything should work fine.
posted by shmegegge at 10:32 AM on February 10, 2010
I use vuze or utorrent, either works just fine. lately, I've taken to using utorrent more because vuze has become huge and unwieldy because they're trying to turn it into a one-stop media distribution channel and I only want it for torrents. so try this:
on your mac, click download a torrent from somewhere. do it by right clicking the link and selecting "Save Link As..." and then saving it on your desktop.
when it's there, right click the file and select "get info."
a window will open, with several sections. General, More Info, Name & Extension, and some others. Look in the section labeled "Open with:" you may have to click the triangle next to it to see what's in that section. the triangle should be pointing down, then you can see a drop down menu there you can click on. click it and select "vuze" (or utorrent, if you prefer) from the list. if it's NOT in the list, click "Other..." when you do, a window should open up with a list of your applications in it. scroll down to vuze or utorrent and click it. then check the "always open with" box, and click "Add."
back in the "get info" window, the drop down box should now say "vuze" or "utorrent." underneath that, there is a button that should say "Change All..." click that.
now, all torrents should open in whichever program you chose whenever you download them.
from that point on, you should, as TheRaven said, open the files you download OUTSIDE of the torrent application. to do this, you need to know where they're downloading to. If you don't know where they're downloading to, you can right click the file you downloaded from the list in vuze, and click "reveal in finder" or "show file location," or "open containing folder" or something like that. i'm sorry I can't be more specific. i'm at work and don't have these programs installed here. basically, you want to click something in that right click menu that will show you the file you downloaded in the folder it was downloaded to. THEN, just double click the file to run it from there. everything should work fine.
posted by shmegegge at 10:32 AM on February 10, 2010
I recommend μtorrent, or if you can find it, a vuze-free version of azureus for your downloading and sharing of public domain content. Uninstalling vuze should solve your issues.
posted by Locobot at 5:47 PM on February 10, 2010
posted by Locobot at 5:47 PM on February 10, 2010
Response by poster: followed your steps, and opened on Miro. Works great. thanks.
posted by ebesan at 3:36 PM on February 18, 2010
posted by ebesan at 3:36 PM on February 18, 2010
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posted by TheRaven at 9:52 AM on February 10, 2010