Bitcomet 1.20 Torrent Share

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Bitcomet 1.20 running for quite sometime with Torrent Share (DHT also enabled). Suddenly this option disppeared and only

Torrent History remained. Went back to the setting page and found the Enable switch for Torrent Share totally disappeared!?

<The page given in wiki and elsewhere on showing how to tutn on Torrent Share, just that in my case, these options suddenly

disappeared without warning?> Try uninstall many times and still the same. Try to install Bitcomet 1.20 on another machine,

same problem. Try Windows 7, Windows XP, same problem.. Anyone out there seen this? Any solutions??

Bitcomet 1.20 Task - BitTorrent image.jpg

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This is why terminology is so important. It has been relabeled to “Torrent Exchange” in 1.20 and is found on the Task → Bittorrent page.

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Following your comment, I went to Task->BitTorrent and still cannot find the button/option to turn on Torrent Exchange? See the attached screen capture

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I now admit to being mystified. My version of 1.20 has, below “Add to Torrent History…”, the lines

Enable Torrent Exchange
Clear Torrent Collection list at Program Exit
Max number of torrents to display in Torrent Collection list: [combo box]

followed by “Auto Stop Task” &c.

I’m not sure what to tell you. I believe I downloaded the zip version, so you might try that long enough to see if these settings are there.

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Close BitComet, then go to your installation directory or app data folder, preferably both, (C:\Program Files x86\BitComet or C:\Users\you\BitComet by default) and delete BitComet.xml. Start BitComet and go to options to see if there’s any change.

Please note that by doing this you delete all your settings and you will have to redo any personalized setting.

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Do you by any chance use Chinese as your system locale? (Control Panel–>Regional and Language Options–>Advanced in Windows XP)

If yes change it to some other European language. Torrent Exchange is not available for Chinese users anymore.

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Right, right, i forgot about that, sorry. The Chinese government didn’t like it, but they don’t have a problem with torrents themselves. Only exchanging the torrents. I may never understand that.

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Thanks for resolving this mysterious behavior! Indeed, the cause was due to a selection of a default Chinese language (although I do not think it has anything to do with the country’s network monitoring because I do not reside there). So the only reason would be the combination of Microsoft OS (XP, Windows 7) (on setting the default language) and Bitcomet (who detects this Windows OS setting and automatically kills off the Torrent Exchange option in the option/preference page). It is rather a draconian measure, and this user had never experienced such language/country sensitive twist (transparent and without a clue) in a software before… for my taste, it should not have been done for whatever the incentives or reasons ..

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(although I do not think it has anything to do with the country’s network monitoring because I do not reside there)

Perhaps so, but your ISP is based in very close proximity.

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Well, let’s understand that BitComet did not have any choice about this. The government said, "take it out’, so that was the end of the matter, one way or the other.

“The other” is remarkably unpleasant.