Trouble with Torrents

Can anyone tell me (legitimately) why this thread has been hijacked and turned into a discussion of the legality and scope of torrent technology?

This is a *support forum*, and there are plenty of sites that discuss the legality, morality and use of torrents. Google search "torrent forum" and I think you'll be able to find something worthwhile.

As for your problem with not being able to open torrent files, I've had problems with my client not recognizing the files before. I'm not really sure this is your issue though, considering you use two different clients and neither one works.

My first suggestion would be to trash the .plists for each client, just to make sure that they're properly set-up. Then maybe try getting your torrents from a different source.
I've had my best luck with Transmission and Vuze (formerly Azureus). Both are free, good-looking and pretty stable. Vuze has more features, but Transmission is cleaner and more simple.

Also, I should ask, are you trying to open by double-clicking or cmd+clicking and using the 'open with' dialog? If you are double-clicking, check to make sure that your default app to open torrents is one of your two clients (I've had LimeWire stay as my default even after I deleted with AppCleaner...). If it's not one your clients, use 'open with' and they should appear there.

Thx for the suggestions Sed... I too have used Vuze and recently upgraded to a new MBP... (Love it), but since the upgrade, I can't open torrents directly...

Is there a way to manually change the default Torrent program my MBP tries to access??? i.e., I'd like to try to use Transmission instead of Vuze as default.

Thx in advance

If you do a Finder "Get Info" on a torrent file, there's a box in which you can tell Finder which application you want to use open files of that type in the future.

I've tried many times to get Transmission to be my default app for opening torrents, but it seems that there is no way to do it in the typical OS X fashion.

The way I have found, however, to get it to work in a somewhat convincing manner is pretty simple.
I just set Transmission to look for torrents to automatically add in my Downloads folder and made sure my torrents were automatically downloading to that folder. This can be done with any folder...

So now, with Transmission running, when I download a torrent Transmission automatically tries to add it and I can just click OK on the screen that appears. When I download it, since I also have Vuze, the torrents appear with Vuze's blue frog logo but are automatically picked up by Transmission. It's a roundabout way of accomplishing something that should be really easy.

Hope that helps!

...just wondering what is your favourite colour of wallpaper.