Explain BitTorrent

You might also try other clients: Tomato, Azureus, or Bits on Wheels.

It also sounds like you're actually trying to get rid of the image, rather than the app itself. Dig you drag the app to your application folder? Try launching it from there and see how you go.

Anyway, i'm off to bed now, sure it will seem much simpler in the morning.

Really, I'm pretty drunk, I shouldn't try and install software in this state.

Download and install that - pretty easy as I recall. Then go to your favorite Torrent/sharing site and dl the particular torrent you seek. Drag that torrent over your BitTorrent software to launch. Choose a folder to direct those files towards, and let it go. It will take a moment to link to other clients and then the dl begins. Depending on your connections, modem speed, firewalls and the size of the files your dl'ing, it could take hours - or days to dl the entire file.

But that's not all! If it's music, you will probably end up with a bunch of .shn or .flac files. You still need to decode these. Go back to versiontracker.com and dl free software to expand either the .shn files and/or the .flac files. You drag and drop the .shn's or .flac's to this software, direct the new files to a particular folder, and choose the extensions of the decoded files - say, .aiff or .wav files.

And you're set. If you dl movies, you probably get a Video_TS folder. This requires no decoding on the Mac, and can be viewed through the DVD software and/or burned to a DVD.

But there's more! You cannot stop your download, and expect to have usable files. You need to get the entire (100%) of the dl, to have files that ares useful to you. You can pause the dl (even quit) and begin it again later; be sure when you restart to direct towards your original folder. It will ascertain what you already have dl'd, and pick it up from there.

And that's not all! Other people are exchanging data with you, so be a good sharer and try to upload as much, if not more, than you have dl'd (in bit size). That way you perpetuate the sharing, and spread the goodness.

Starting your own torrent (originating an upload) is another affair. Torrent sites would have the instrux for that.

That's the basics, and once you have it down, it's pretty easy. Then buy an external drive to store all the goodies.

What OSX apps do people prefer? Azureus used to work like a charm as did Bits on Wheels, but since I signed up here in NZ for broadband, the original Bit Torrent works best.

I use Azureus for OS X and it works great, though it hogs RAM quite a lot.

I haven't got it to work at all for me, and it sucks because it automatically became my default torrent app as soon as I upgraded. If you use Acquisition and also a different torrent client, I would suggest not upgrading to the new version if you haven't done so yet!

i downloaded bt yesterday and have managed to get only one of the files working properly.
So I put it down to the fact I was using a free site to search for my torrents. i signed up for supernova er, but, they just tell you to download the BT application and THATS IT! hey where are my fucking torrents ?!

i have better luck just searching google for anything i need. thnx.

if i click on the technical support link it just takes me to a gambling website

Get Azureus. Go to www.thepiratebay.org or www.mininova.org. Read a couple of wikipedia pages about seeds and peers and ratios (it's really not that hard to get used to). And don't give you credit card details out to anyone else.

just google for trackers. i found this amazing music related one but it's invites only and i don't have any invites

seriously, I'll stick to being legal and buying my CD's or paying 99p from bleep.com. at least amazon and bleep actually produce results from my searches.

but it's invites only
so how the eff do you get on there in the first place to invite someone?!

also, anyone recommend a client for osx 10.3? i think azureus needs the lastest v. of java which is for 10.4. right?

Azureus is awful. Use Bits on Wheels