Thread: How to run multiple instances of uTorrent

I recently found out how to run multiple instance of uTorrent and think this will be helpful for some users. This comes in handy when different trackers allow/forbid different versions of uTorrent. Let me illustrate that with an example: Pedro's BTMusic is switching to uTorrent 2.0+ entirely, that means no other version of uTorrent is allowed. Other trackers like Blackcats-Games forbid anything above 1.8.5. Assuming that the only client you want to use is uTorrent, the only way to use both trackers at the same time here is to run multiple instances of uTorrent. Now how do you do that?

It's not as straight forward as you'd imagine but also really not that hard. Just follow the following procedure and you should be ready to go:

1. Put each instance you want to run in its own folder like that (can be more than two):



What's important here is that the .dat files are in the program folder and NOT in the %appdata% folder:

Win7 (& Vista I guess): C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\uTorrent
(make sure that this folder is empty. move/copythe files in here to you uTorrent.exe's program folder(s))



2. Create a shortcut for the 2nd (and any subsequent) utorrent instance and add the following to the end of the "Target" entry:

Code:

 /RECOVER

So in my case, the shortcut target reads:

Code:

"E:\Portable Apps\uTorrent 2.0\utorrent.exe" /RECOVER

don't forget to add the space after the path.



3. Open your 2nd, 3rd, 4th,... instances using the shortcuts you just created.

4. Edit the connection details like Port for every instance to use different ones.

That's it. You now should be running more than just one instance of uTorrent. Congratulations!

Thanks for the great tutorial mate, will use If I am ever apart of different trackers that restrict the version of utorrent I am using.

Thanks for this tutorial, but how do you prevent your torrents from seeding on BOTH clients. Like I want most of my torrents seeding on uTorrent 2.0, but I want trackers such as BitMe and BitMeTV to download/seed on uTorrent 1.8.5. How would I go around on doing that?

that's perfectly possible. I seed my Pedro Torrents on 2.0 and everything else on 1.8.5 without duplicate seeds. Just add them to your preferred uTorrent instance. Each instance should act like a standalone, independent program.

Edit: If you did it like described it really should work. You maybe experience awkward behaviour like duplicate seeds on more instances because there are files left in the %appdata% folder (resume.dat). check that.

Originally Posted by cangorooh

that's perfectly possible. I seed my Pedro Torrents on 2.0 and everything else on 1.8.5 without duplicate seeds. Just add them to your preferred uTorrent instance. Each instance should act like a standalone, independent program.

Edit: If you did it like described it really should work. You maybe experience awkward behaviour like duplicate seeds on more instances because there are files left in the %appdata% folder (resume.dat). check that.

The folders where I installed uTorrent only has utorrent.exe. There are no .DAT files, which is why I guess this tutorial did not work for me... I have "view all hidden files and folders" checked and "hide unknown extensions" unchecked.

Originally Posted by qwerty620

The folders where I installed uTorrent only has utorrent.exe. There are no .DAT files, which is why I guess this tutorial did not work for me... I have "view all hidden files and folders" checked and "hide unknown extensions" unchecked.

AppData is not in the uTorrent folder. Go to my computer and type %AppData% in Explorer. Then scroll down to uTorrent. The file you're looking for should be there.

correct NMTerminator.

To be more precise:

Win7 (& Vista I guess): C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\uTorrent

qwerty620 copy the .dats you see in here to your utorrent program folder(s) and you should be doing fine. if you copy the resume.dat to your second instances folder it's perfectly OK that the torrents are still active on both instances. just delete the torrents you don't want for each instance. that won't affect the other(s) as each instance now has its own resume.dat

Thanks! I'll do this for IPTorrents and Bitgamer :)