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shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby stlolth » 16 Dec 2009 00:41

i recently installed shareaza and it took the magnet link association from utorrent. i deselected the magnet association in shareaza and reassociated in utorrent, but every time i start shareaza it steals the magnet association again, even though it's not selected in the options. anyone got a solution?
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby ailurophobe » 16 Dec 2009 00:45

With options you mean: "Settings/General/Web/Peer to Peer link handling/magnet?"
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby stlolth » 16 Dec 2009 01:01

yes. in desperation i have now unchecked everything under it, not just the magnet link, but with no result.
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby kevogod » 16 Dec 2009 01:31

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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby stlolth » 16 Dec 2009 02:03

It does not seem right at all, but it nevertheless happens. After i close and re-open shareaza the boxes remain unchecked, so the settings are presumably saved, but shareaza still retakes magnet association upon re-open.
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby mojo85 » 16 Dec 2009 05:40

It means Windows hasn't released association ... when this happens to me for torrents I reassociate the torrent back to uTorrent through uTorrent's settings menu. Also try to use Windows feature to "Open With", this also works.
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby stlolth » 16 Dec 2009 09:16

It doesn't have anything to do with windows, it has to do with shareaza retaking the association with every start, even though it shouldn't. Everything works fine, utorrent's associations keep until shareaza is opened again.

Open with won't do me any good because it deals with file extension association, and my problem is the magnet URI association.
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby stlolth » 16 Dec 2009 09:49

I discovered a workaround. Shareaza steals firefox's default magnet application association, so i told firefox to use a secondary application for handling magnet URIs and made utorrent it. So now even when shareaza changes the default application for magnet to itself, it doesn't matter because firefox is istructed not to use the default application.
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Re: shareaza keeps stealing magnet link association

Postby wdc » 17 Aug 2017 12:32

Exactly same issue, was unable to change protocol association in WIndows settings. After wasting 2 hours of my time, i ended up configuring Firefox (Options/Applications/ magnet), but Shareaza still steals magnet association on the OS level (Win. 10 in my case), even magnet association is unchecked in Shareaza settings. Hope this bug will be fixed in Shareaza.
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