[Talibanhunter]

Hi,

When you download with utorrent, you get a dat file in the same folder where the movie file is. When I update the database the movie is shown twice, because of the dat file, that is pretty annoying.

Are there a way so the scraper doesen't detect dat files?

Merry X-mas

[scudlee]

You can create an advancedsettings.xml with the following:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
   <videoextensions>
        <remove>.dat</remove>
   </videoextensions>
</advancedsettings>

Should do the trick.

[BigO]

That or go under the advanced utorrent settings and turn off part file creation. I did that since i tend to skip certain parts of the torrents i grab, namely the sample and subs folders.

[Talibanhunter]

Turning off part file creation seems to do the trick. Thanks

[StinDaWg]

I didn't even realize there was a way to turn off dat file creation in utorrent. Thanks so much! What is the point of them anyways? All they do is annoy me and take extra time to delete them all.

[StinDaWg]

On second thought after some googling it seems like you should keep the partfile turned on and do the advanced settings hack. If you skip files in utorrent you need the partfile to keep it from allocating the entire skipped file. From what I'm reading even if you set utorrent to skip files, some blocks of data overlap and you will still need to download ~5MB of a file that you don't want. All the extra junk you don't want but utorrent needs goes into the partfile .dat creation.

If you don't want to see partfiles, then don't skip files when downloading, or disable the partfile advanced option -- just don't complain about µTorrent allocating files you told it to skip.

The partfile is there to store data for files you told to skip that share pieces with files you told µTorrent to download. Partfiles get removed after you remove the torrent from the list.