Catalina OS torrent manager
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I'm hoping for a little advice and possible recommendations.
I'm a Macbook user and although I haven't upgraded yet, I intend to update to Catalina in the coming months, I am waiting for the initial bugs to be ironed out. I'm no expert but I understand that programs have to be 64 bit on the new OS. Utorrent, which is my current preferred torrent manager is 32 bit so is no longer compatible, their solution is a browser based download manager.
This morning, I was automatically upgraded to µTorrent Web as per this article https://blog.utorrent.com/2019/08/01/important-mac-users-will-be-automatically-upgraded-to-µtorrent-web-for-mac-os-catalina-v10-15/
The new web version has much less functionality. I downloaded a single file torrent, it displayed the number of seeds but not the number of peers connected and does not show information on fellow peers ie their IP address, download speed, % available. Once the file was fully downloaded, GTRU tracker did not recognise that it was fully downloaded and now seeding. The new manager also doesn't tell you the share ratio so there is no telling whether you have been a good torrenter and shared back what you downloaded.
I then downloaded a torrent pack containing approximately 20 files. To only download one file, you have to de-select each file individually which was time consuming. If you only wanted one file from a torrent containing hundreds of files, it would take half a day to deselect them all.I have a healthy ratio and seed bonus which I would like to maintain. As it stands, I don't think utorrent web is conducive to this, nor does it appear to be compatible with this site, or any other private tracker site.
Could someone please recommend a good torrent manager, which is a standalone client, not browser based and that has similar features and functionality to old uTorrent but is Catalina compatible, 64 bit.
I suspect that this is going to affect many users in the coming months.
Many thanks, in advance!!!
PS I hope the above makes sense.
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Transmission works fine for me.
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Cheers, been doing some googling and reddit users in the same boat are recommending qbittorrent as having the closest functionality to utorrent.
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I'm unsure if you have researched or tried other bit torrent client options for MAC. I'm sure there are several out there. We all have our preferred clients (mine is BiglyBT, as I've stated elsewhere - and it's fantastic and offers a MAC version), but uTorrent just seems like it's been being reported by members more often than not as to having problems for them.
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To be fair, i had uTorrent for about 10 years and never really had a problem until they decided to go browser based and given the reduced functionality, it just isn't for me.
I went for qBittorrent in the end. So far so good…..
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I've upgraded to Catalina and started using Transmission. I'm quite happy with it; I wish I had switched to Transmission sooner.
Site: https://transmissionbt.com -
I've always found Transmission to work the best with MAC.
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Could someone please recommend a good torrent manager, which is a standalone client, not browser based and that has similar features and functionality to old uTorrent but is Catalina compatible, 64 bit.
I've been using Transmission for years with almost no problems and upgraded to Catalina when it came out without a hitch.
The only issue that I have with it is that I have to manually "verify the local data" on all downloads because sometimes a torrent will show as complete when it is really 99.5% or more. If a torrent is affected by that, I verify the data again after allowing it to complete and once or twice the torrent has still not been 100% complete. I'm not sure why that happens or even if it is a unique problem to Transmission but it's no big deal so I don't worry about it.
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I am too stuck with utorrent for many years, after upgrade I dug out my old pc and have been running utorrent there since.
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Could someone please recommend a good torrent manager, which is a standalone client, not browser based and that has similar features and functionality to old uTorrent but is Catalina compatible, 64 bit.
I've been using Transmission for years with almost no problems and upgraded to Catalina when it came out without a hitch.
The only issue that I have with it is that I have to manually "verify the local data" on all downloads because sometimes a torrent will show as complete when it is really 99.5% or more. If a torrent is affected by that, I verify the data again after allowing it to complete and once or twice the torrent has still not been 100% complete. I'm not sure why that happens or even if it is a unique problem to Transmission but it's no big deal so I don't worry about it.
Transmission sucks. I can't use utorrent anymore, so I've tried your suggestion, but is the thing serious? Downloading one file may be ok, but what if you have folders with multiple files? I've added a torrent and see the folder, but I can't see the files in it. It downloads the whole thing when i only want specific files downloaded at a time.
I can only choose which files to download ONCE when I add the torrent. And even then I can't download one file, and then the second, third and so on. It downloads all the chosen files at the same time.
So if I want to download one file, and then download another one afterwards, I can't just select it like I would normally do with utorrent.
I have to redownload the whole torrent and then it takes some time for the torrent to start and that's very inconvenient. -
Transmission sucks. I can't use utorrent anymore, so I've tried your suggestion, but is the thing serious? Downloading one file may be ok, but what if you have folders with multiple files? I've added a torrent and see the folder, but I can't see the files in it. It downloads the whole thing when i only want specific files downloaded at a time.
I can only choose which files to download ONCE when I add the torrent. And even then I can't download one file, and then the second, third and so on. It downloads all the chosen files at the same time.
So if I want to download one file, and then download another one afterwards, I can't just select it like I would normally do with utorrent.
I have to redownload the whole torrent and then it takes some time for the torrent to start and that's very inconvenient.Transmission > Preferences > Transfers > Adding > Add window > Display a window when opening a torrent file
Then you can choose which files to download from a multi-file torrent. You can't specify a sequence for multiple files but you can change the priority for each file to high or low.
I don't understand the situation you are describing in which you have to "redownload the whole torrent". I have always been able to go back and check off additional files in a multi-file torrent at a later time without any difficulty.
Perhaps you are using the web interface? That may explain some of the issues you report. I use the software installed on a Mac.
As far as obvious advantages, Transmission is open source software and doesn't have ads or a history of third parties bundling it with malware and other security issues like μTorrent. It is unrealistic to expect it to be a replica of other software with the exact same features. Perhaps try exploring the various preference settings and using it for a while before concluding that it "sucks".
