Transmission

I recently installed version 1.8.2 on my mac with 2gb ram and osx 10.5.7. The result was that many torrents that I've had running for weeks suddenly reported "tracker returned a 4xx message"

Restarting the system and my cable modem and router did not resolve this. This mac is in the router's DMZ ...

I wasn't intending to be difficult and I didn't say that I thought this was a bug, or that I was asking for 1.4.3.

I thought perhaps there was some setting that could be tweaked that would provide a change in Transmission's behavior.

I decided to try Transmission 1.5. I first made a backup of all ...

Thanks for replying. I did look at that list of changes to version 1.5 and wondered about it. But I'm never the first person to install updated software, as I prefer to avoid problems with new releases (I waited until apple came out with 10.3.1, 10.4.1, 10.5.1 before installing those operating ...

Torrenting definitely gives a hard drive a workout. But it shouldn't cause drive failure as long as the drive is staying cool.

But many LaCie external drives have insufficient cooling and run hotter than is healthy for a hard drive. In my work as a computer tech, I have seen a lot of them die.

I ...

Transmission 1.4.2 works very reliably for me on my Mac running 10.4.11 with the necessary security updates.

But there are a good number of healthy torrents that Transmission refuses to start.

I have lots of torrents running for files of all sorts from all kinds of trackers. But I still encounter ...