I'd been using Transmission on 10.5.5 and 10.5.6 since Transmission 1.4.0. Always worked fabulously with any torrent I tried. Upgraded through to 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, kept working great.
I last used it a week ago, successfully. Flash forward to last night, I fired it up with a new torrent, and it... doesn't want to work at all.
"Downloading from 0 of 0 peers", Torrent Inspector "Peers" tab says 2 leechers, 0 seeders, and no matter how long I leave it it will never get going.
The port is open both in transmission and with canyouseeme.org.
I tried 1.5.0 Beta 2, and still not working. Tried backing out to 1.4.1, 1.4.0, back to 1.3.4... not working.
Tried nuking ~/Library/Preferences/org.m0k.transmisison.plist and ~/Library/Application Support/Transmission, and still doesn't work!'
Tried going through dozens of old torrents I successfully downloaded using Transmission and none of them worked.
So I downloaded the hot new uTorrent for OSX and fired it up with the exact same torrent, and it was done in under a minute.
I want to stick with Transmission since it places Mac ahead of Windows and is actually Open Source. Sadly as long as uTorrent works and Transmission doesn't, I gotta stick with what works.
Any ideas? I'm a very technically saavy user and would love to explore in any way suggested. I even built from source for kicks but don't have the time to dive in to Yet Another Code Base right now to learn it...
Transmission stopped working all of the sudden...
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Re: Transmission stopped working all of the sudden...
I am getting the same thing. Transmission is a no go anymore on most torrents, exactly like you said, but uTorrent has no problem with the same torrent files. Nothing was changed my end that I know of to cause this.
I am running Transmission 1.42 with OS X 10.5.5
I am running Transmission 1.42 with OS X 10.5.5
Re: Transmission stopped working all of the sudden...
Well, I might have spoke too soon. I grabbed the 1.50b3 and things seem to be working ok. A file that wasn't working now is. I am keeping my fingers crossed though, and a copy of uTorrent handy...