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I suspect you are letting probably your upload rate (as it typically is the limiting and vastly lower of the two) get up way too close to your physical maximum and then your individual peers connections all lose packets or time out and you experience the crash and burn and slow recovery you describe. In Preferences, set your Global Maximum Upload Rate at a rate that is 80 or even 70% of your real max. You may need to experiment, and then even cut it a tad lower as your ISP's random other traffic may impact your optimum smooth-sailing setting. Theree various tune and adjustment things here somewhere someone surely will know about and point you to.

If you just downloaded BC, there is a chance you got the now growing infamous version 0.71. If so, don't even waste any time trying to describe any problems, but instead download 0.70, and (without the other running...) just install 0.70 and it will nicely replace the one you DO NOT WANT. Then welcome to BC, as it is a GREAT BT client.

BC has been good and stable (relatively) and even some betas I tried were "ok" to try then ignore, but inflicting 0.71 on a trusting and unwarned public was in the rude shock category, and IMHO a bad idea. Some poor new user will flee in terror and never return, and some friends will be less so. I'm delighted to see that development is going forward, but us lab rats do need to be fed occasionally rather than just tortured all day.

The www.democracynow.org folks let you download the torrent for only their last 3 TV programs, so automating getting each show is of special concern during vacations and business trips. They offer an automated mechanism and recommend using it with certain torrent clients, but omit mentioning BC. They also suggest this open source tool to get any of many hundreds of different TV shows automatically delivered: http://www.getdemocracy.com/ - and it also works with macs and linux. This is what is supposed to automate getting all the democracynow shows: http://ewheel.democracynow.org/rss.xml How do I use that with BC? Or is it best to just get the free open source video subscription tool and use BC for one-offs.

Yet another "foldering" option that would be VERY nice would be to have folders in the top window so it would be easy to group torrents together in categories. This is just for organizing them and has nothing to do with where they are on disk. You can clearly move them up and down and so can keep the ones of current interest together at the bottom, but having the ability to create a "foney" torrent entry that is just a clearly visible group/folder label would be great, and then normal torrents can be moved up/down to be under whichever one of these you want. Having a click to then hide/unhide all the torrents is any folder would be handy, as would be the ability to then nest this to any depth so you could hide all folders and their torrents under the next higher level folder. moving a folder up/down would also move its contents (torrents and other folders) with it to above/below the next same level folder. It should also be able to move a folder to a different level within sub folders - ie to move it under whatever other folder you want regardless of its previous level.

Yes, would be nice. Also would be nice to click several columns in sequence to have sorts within sorts. If you are only showing 100 or perhaps 400 peers and want to see uploads sorted largest first within client type, you should get your selections from within all 400. With some numbers dancing about so much, perhaps an update rate limit or even a frozen snapshot capability would make sense while probing through whatever is happening. Sorts within sorts should be an option, as it would drive folks not wanting it nuts.

You will be happier with a folder for each torrent. NOT finished vs unfinished. These may well be sub-folders under broader categories - e.g 911, p***, SUSE, pirated MS, or how ever else you want to organize them. Even with a couple of G allocated to caching (and this is where BC leaves the other in the dust), you can get up near 20 real I/Os to a disk drive and that may limit you. Using random other drives (but NOT primary / secondary sharing the same PATA cable) can help a lot. Should be using SATA these days, anyway, and eSATA to an external case that takes a SATA II drive and uses the (its different!!!) eSATA cable to your PC but that also has a cruddy old slow USB 2.0 for emergencies is very nice and flexible. Use the new BC 0.71 "MOVE" feature carefully. It seems to have messed me up wrt folders somehow when moving between disks, but may be my learning curve issues, or files names that included a subfolder specification. Then go BACK to 0.70 to stay sane, as the only 'goodness' in 0.71 is the MOVE function.

I had assumed that. The name I tried to use has posts that I *know* I made. The email address that belongs to the user account here I requested password help for is working and still has not received the email. No big deal, and starting another user name here with a different email address (not trying to be devious, just avoiding confusion...) is ok by me, but I figured if it was broken for sending to me, it may be broken for others, too.

something is broken. The forum software claims to send email back within 10 minutes to help recover a password. I sent test mail via the servers my incoming emial has to transit, and they are all working. I checked server logs to see if we had bounced any messages that might have come from here because of RBL listing of BC's email server, but, amid the tons of trash continually being rejected as "blacklisted", nothing looked as though it came from here. I'll guess it hasn't been sent.

The ability to control individual torrent's upload speed is essential. I might have many running that I don't want to go over some limit each and some of them might go way up if allowed to. At the same time, I may have others that I really want to be able to go as fast as they can and I'd prefer to not have to shut down the less important ones. Even with BC's disk caching, you can reach disk I/O limits. Having the files scattered to different disks or on RAID significantly helps that problem. But not being able to control individual ones means that 0.71 is useless for me, and I'll have to stay at 0.70 until it is fixed.