problem opening torrents found by Bit Che

[tuttoviola]

I've downloaded Bit Che and must say it's fast and great at finding torrents. However, while BC is able to detect uTorrent (my downloader), once I try to open the torrent I've found a window pops up saying "run-time error '7'. No way I can get it started with uTorrent. Can anybody help on this?
Thanx

[Bovski]

This could be that a script needs updating do you know what site you downloaded from.

[chip!]

yeah, could be you need to update your scripts (done from the Tools menu).

Which site are you trying to open a torrent from?

And, when you get the Run-Time Error 7, does Bit Che crash/exit?

Also, are you able to view the Torrent Details? or "Save Torrent As.." ?

[gourdmaster]

ive got a similar problem, a few days ago, bit che said something about 'not finding a default program' to open the torrents in, i was busy on other things or i would have paid more attention

now torrents do not open in my client, ive updated the scripts, but it hasn't helped D: is there any way to make bit che find my client and use it to open torrents again?

[Bovski]

download a torrent from a site manually then double click on it windows will then ask you to select your client.

[johnty]

I also have a problem with uTorrent.  When I try to download a torrent found by Bit Che I get the message:  Unable to load ''temp *****'.torrent'' The system cannot find the file specified! 

[chip!]

can you right click and do save torrent as... And save it to your computer, then attach it here in a post so i can look at it. Also what script/site? This is usually caused because the script is not updated..

[johnty]

As suggested I have 'attached' downloaded file.  Bit Che was downloaded from CNet and I have updated Script File.  However, the problem stated still exists.

What I have since discovered is that if I double click on the 'attached' file in my Temp File Folder, it opens in uTorrent.  Is this 'trick' normal? 

[chip!]

the .torrent that was attached looks fine.. at this point, i dont have enough information to make a guess at whether its a bug in Bit Che or a problem with some setting on your computer..


Which site are you trying to open a torrent from?

are you able to view the Torrent Details?

What version of Windows are you using? and what version of uTorrent?



-chip

[Sam OBIWAN]

Greetings,

It's almost a month since I started to use Bit Che. 
It is fast and easy to use.. Great program!  However... I have a problem. 

Whenever I tried to open a torrent file made or saved by Bit Che,
my uTorrent won't open the torrent file even though I associated torrents with it.

When I try to open a torrent file from BTJunkie, TorrentPortal, TorrentSpy, h33t, deadfrog,
uTorrent says "Unable to load "temp_xxxxxxx.torrent": Invalid torrent file!".
If I double click on the saved torrent file in my Temp File Folder, the same problem happens. 
And if I use 'Save Torrent As..' option, the torrent file can be saved, but when I double click it,
uTorrent says "Unable to load "xxxx.torrent": Invalid torrent file!".
So I tried to open the torrent file by other clients such as Opera, FlashGet, Make Torrent...
None of them can open it...   Well.. I'm in trouble, right?

So, Now, I use 'Open Source Page' option and save the torrent file by my browser.
This torrent file can be opened by uTorrent.
I've attached these torrent files for your reference. 
What I've noticed is that they are very similar but different
between torrent files made by Bit Che and downloaded from these torrent sites directly.  

And for BTMon, IsoHunt, although Bit Che's Downloading Window opens,
it doesn't make temp_torrent file and uTorrent says Nothing.

I'm using...
Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Japanese Version
uTorrent 1.6.1 build 490
Bit Che 1.0 build 59
I updated my Bit Che's scripts (done from the Tools menu) and
I can view the Torrent Details of BTJunkie, BTMon, IsoHunt, TorrentPortal,
But not deadfrog, h33t, TorrentSpy. 
I reinstalled my uTorrent, but still same problem remains..

If you could help me, that would be great..  Thanks in advance. 

regards,

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P.S.  I also reinstalled my Bit Che, but it still doesn't work...  Hmm...  Help me!

[chip!]

Hi,

thanks for the detailed post regarding the problem. it appears as though somewhere in the code, Bit Che is not saving the Unicode text correctly to the .torrent file, but I think this might only be the case with a different version of Windows installed. The problem is I have no idea at this point where/why in the code anything would be changing the data that it receives from downloading the .torrent, but I will do my best to look into this. From my English Windows machine, I verified that [my] Bit Che is correctly downloading/saving those torrents you posted (compared mine with your files using a HexEditor, and my Bit Che produced the same exact .torrent as your browser did), so I definitely know it has something to do with your system being in a different language (and the Bit Che code being oddly affected by this).


so... now I am downloading Japanese language locale for my Windows, and I will attempt to see if I can reproduce the problem (however, I dont know how successful I will be at this, since using Windows in Japanese is going to be very tricky for me, haha).

in the mean time, can you run this tool and tell me what it detects for you?  i am also working on having Bit Che auto-detect the language of the system in the next version..

thanks, and ill update this thread if i can find out any more info 

-chip

[chip!]

great news

spent several hours going in and out of Japanese Windows, testing many different input/output methods for data, and FINALLY found out where the problem was.  I thought it was a problem with how the data was being saved/written to the harddrive, but turns out, there was a HIDDEN string conversion from Unicode > ANSI using your when the data was being received from Winsock that translated the data based on the system's codepage (so I would have never found this if I didnt try to debug Bit Che from Japanese Windows, haha)..

so, this will definitely fixed in the upcoming versions of Bit Che.... and I might be able to provide a fix for build 59 sooner by replaceing the downloader 'x.exe' with an fixed version, ill keep this thread updated.

thanks again for your detailed description of the problem, it really helped me cross of lots of potential problems and made it easier for me to figure this one out

-chip

[Sam OBIWAN]

New year Greetings,

Hello, Chip-san.  I thank you for your prompt reply.  I've never thought that English and Japanese version of Windows would produce such a difference.  Actually, for Japanese and other 2 bytes character PC users, Character Codes (such as ANSI and Unicode and JIS and so on..)  are very annoying matter.  They always makes weird garbled characters. 
Recently, so many Chinese and Korean people also shares files using their own language, so my PC monitor is always filled with unreadable characters.  So I guess that you made big effort using Windows in Japanese, it must be a very hard work...  I really thank you. 
Also I would like to appreciate on behalf of potential Japanese Bit Che users.

I attached the result screen capture of  'lang_detect.exe'.  It seems to work fine. 
Have a happy new year!  I'll keep in touch.   

thanks again, 

[chip!]

howdy..  here is an attached updated 'x.exe' which is used by Bit Che to download/save the torrents. I believe I have fixed the problem but I would like to see if you could test this before I update the Bit Che 1.0 build 59 installer package.

can you download the attached x.exe and replace the one found in the Bit Che directory (c:\program files\bit che\) and then let me know if its working for you?

thanks, and happy new year!
-chip

[Sam OBIWAN]

Hello! Chip-san

Thank you for your quick reply.  I've checked updated 'x.exe'. 
However, it shows 2 problems...

1) AntiVirus Issue

Currently I'm using ZoneAlarm AntiVirus (Kaspersky Engine). 
Whenever I download the new 'x.exe', ZoneAlarm automatically quarantined it. 
So I have to put this 'x.exe' in the 'Virus Treatment Exceptions' list of ZoneAlarm. 
To make it sure, I checked the new 'x.exe' with other Virus Detections.. 
The result is as follows;

ZoneAlarm AntiVirus (Kaspersky) --> Packed.Win32.PolyCrypt.c
Symantec Norton AntiVirus OnlineScan --> Bloodhound.W32.1
McAfee OnlineScan --> PolyCrypt-Packed

This doesn't happen on the previous 'x.exe'.  Hmm...?!

2) Torrent File Issue

Using the updated 'x.exe', I downloaded some torrent files by Bit Che.   
uTorrent says "Unable to load "temp_xxxxxxx.torrent": Invalid torrent file!".
and other clients can not open the torrent. (same symptom as before)
I checked the torrent file using a binary editor, it says that there are no difference
(identical) between the torrent files made by previous 'x.exe' and new 'x.exe'. 

I attached the torrent file produced by new 'x.exe' and my Windows Winsock Information. 
I'd happy if give me any suggestions.  Thanks! 

regards,