[aryayush]

@nonstopdesign,
Yes, I have. I’m sitting out here in Kolkata and monitoring my Transmission queue which is running on a Mac in a city near Darjeeling.

[cfreire]

I don't have an Intel Mac, alas, so I can't check out the beta myself. My understanding from an article I saw elsewhere (maybe NetworkWorld?) is that "several Windows features are missing from this beta" or words to that effect. Sounds like the ability to select individual files for download may be one of them. No matter--when I need to torrent, I use uTorrent on my Windows laptop. Transmission is good, but it has that one glitch that I mentioned that just annoys me. YMMV.

[Panglos]

Here's the concluding e-mail in a series I had with the developer of Transmission about seven months ago.
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On Apr 18, 2008, at 2:09 AM, David Watanabe wrote:
On 17-Apr-08, at 11:57 PM, Panglos wrote:
Since using Xtorrent I have been bedeviled by a problem. When I download individual files, parts (up to 100%) of other files in the torrent are downloaded as well. Xtorrent has no mechanism for identifying partially downloaded files as does µTorrent, so the only reliable way to identify the unintended files is by cross-checking them with the Downloads listing. That's an "convenience" I wasn't looking forward to, and it negates any speed advantage Xtorrent has. And if the listing has been cleared, the way to know if the file is an unintended partial download involves
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This is a low-level protocol issue... it's not a bug, but I fully appreciate that it can be confusing.
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Then I have to ask: having used Acquisition, Azureus, Transmission, µTorrent and probably 2-3 others, why haven't I had this problem before?
µTorrent marks partial downloads by adding an extension (.ut!), then stripping it when the download is complete. This way partials look and behave differently from completed downloads.
And it doesn't download any files that aren't specifically ticked.
µTorrent has some other advantages in terms of graphical presentation of speed. You might want to include a similar feature. Presentation of cumulative speed information is, to me, one of Xtorrent's weaker areas. Overall, though, Xtorrent's interface is superior.
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In all honesty, I have never used utorrent, so I'm not really sure what you're referring to here.
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In lieu of a thousand words:
[ Macworld readers can view a depiction of µTorrent's speed graphing capability here: http://johnbokma.com...9/u-torrent.png ]
The graph window can be resized as well as display in a variety of resolutions, which effectively stretches or shrinks the time line.
One other thing that µTorrent does that I like: displays the 'completion map' (or whatever you call the thing Xtorrent displays in the bottom right corner of the Downloads window) for each file, not just the entire torrent.

[Panglos]

A related piece of potentially good news is the emergence of torrent search site torrentzen.com .
As a μTorrent user the next problem facing me if I move it to the Mac platform is how to replace best-of-class torrent search software Bit Che. A first-pass test indicates there is hope that TorrentZEN may be up to the job.

[Panglos]

"Go to UI settings, under 'Adding Torrents' select 'Show a window that displays the files inside the torrent'--presumably this setting made it to the Mac port, but as I haven't looked at it yet I can't say."
To select individual files for downloading on this first Mac iteration of μTorrent, go to the pane at the bottom of the screen and select "Files". If you don't want to download a file, set its priority to "skip". Normal selection aids (shift and Command) apply.
Intelligent prioritization can be a good way to speed downloading, or at least to get the files you want most quicker.

[fred78705]

I agree!! TorrentZEN.com is pretty slick...and full of features. You can search a ton of torrent sites all at once and then instantly sort and filter your search results. I also digg the Mac style design. :)

Two thumbs up.