[rado84]

Hi. I'd like to suggest a feature for BC which would be very useful to me and I'm sure it would be useful to many people. So, this is what I'm talking about:
Place an option in the Preferences menu when all started tasks are complete (downloading is on 100%), the program stops them all (of course, after the check it usually does), then shutsdown itself and if it's possible - the computer too.
Currently, I'm doing this by using Atomic Alarm Clock but from my experience so far I found that forcibly shutting down BitComet isn't healthy for it neither for the files I've been downloading.

[greywizard]

I don't know what version of BitComet you're using but this option is included in BitComet since version v.1.04. In the latest versions you'll find it under Tools-->Auto Shutdown.

[kluelos]

The auto-shutdown feature is much older than that, and has been present in every version I can recall. It's present in version 0.70. An orderly shutdown command from any source ought not to cause any problems with BitComet, though. What sorts of things have you been encountering?

[greywizard]

Indeed, it seems it was present even in version v.0.58
In v.1.04 it was only redesigned; my eyes failed me when reading the release notes. So, even more now, the request is pointless.

Maybe the external app literally kills the process without giving it the time to report to the trackers and save all it's .xml files properly.

[rado84]

greywizard, on 25 October 2009 - 10:03 AM, said:

Indeed, it seems it was present even in version v.0.58
In v.1.04 it was only redesigned; my eyes failed me when reading the release notes. So, even more now, the request is pointless.

Maybe the external app literally kills the process without giving it the time to report to the trackers and save all it's .xml files properly.

I apologise, then. I thought this setting would be under Preferences and I've never checked out what's under Tools.

kluelos, on 25 October 2009 - 08:27 AM, said:

The auto-shutdown feature is much older than that, and has been present in every version I can recall. It's present in version 0.70. An orderly shutdown command from any source ought not to cause any problems with BitComet, though. What sorts of things have you been encountering?

When there are tasks in progress (seeding or downloading) and I set the Atomic Alarm Clock to shut the PC down then when I run BC again a few errors appear but the most frequently met error is one which says "Syntax error on line 1. Do you want to Debug?". I'm studying C++ but I still have no idea what this error means, though. And the worst is that even using Total Uninstall 4.62 doesn't help at all when reinstalling BitComet - the error remains and only full reinstall of Windows works on that error.

This post has been edited by rado84: 25 October 2009 - 12:17 PM

[kluelos]

As I mentioned when this was previously discussed, this error is not coming from BitComet. It is coming from a script of some sort that is being run at that time. Since BitComet is not causing the error, nothing that you do regarding BitComet is going to fix it. The problem lies with whatever application is attempting to start BitComet.