Torrenting for dummies and Mac users (1 Viewer)

[pete]

what's so hard about torrents anyway?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

what's so hard about torrents anyway?

Getting them to work at all. I’ve never managed to figure out how to do it.

 

[pete]

Getting them to work at all. I’ve never managed to figure out how to do it.

you install uTorrent
you click a .torrent file or a magnet link
it opens in uTorrent
it downloads

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

except when it doesn't

 

[ernesto]

you install uTorrent
you click a .torrent file or a magnet link
it opens in uTorrent
it downloads

Or right click on webpage and click ‘open with’ and choose your torrent program

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Yeah, I had uTorrent. It doesn’t work.

 

[pete]

Yeah, I had uTorrent. It doesn’t work.

what happens?

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

Getting them to work at all. I’ve never managed to figure out how to do it.

join the club

 

[ann post]

I use vuze (on mac)

install vuze

go to a torrents site

I use the magnet download button.

Sometimes it looks like it doesn't work because they can take a second to start.

ignore till the morning.

get notiony and control your torrents from your phone.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

what happens?

Nothing!

 

[pete]

Nothing!

are you on a mac or a computer?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

are you on a mac or a computer?

Mac so I think it’s trickier than on a Windows PC.

 

[ernesto]

Mac so I think it’s trickier than on a Windows PC.

It is not. It’s at least as easy

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

It is not. It’s at least as easy

Then why won’t it work?

 

[ernesto]

Then why won’t it work?

Download Folx.

Open Folx.

Set destination folder for torrent downloads.

Go to torrent site.

Click on magnet link (or maybe for the first time right click it and set your preference for Folx to Open such links in future)

Wait for file to download.

Delete from download screen (do not click ‘delete with files’)

Go to folder.

Open downloaded file.

The end

 

[hiadudiad?]

You're only talking to the wall, ernesto

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I'm as dumb as a bag of soggy rocks, and I torrent most of what I watch
And it worked pretty much from the get'go

Believe me, if I can do it, anyone can do it

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I feel personally attacked by this thread title.

 

[GO]

Where is everyone getting their torrents from?
Eir have all the public sites blocked pretty hard

 

[pete]

Where is everyone getting their torrents from?
Eir have all the public sites blocked pretty hard

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