Downloading

Downloading from a Torrent File

Simply open a .torrent file with BitTorrent and you’ll get a dialog letting you start the download. If the Finder does not launch Tomato Torrent when you double-click .torrent files, drag and drop them onto the BitTorrent application icon.

By default, BitTorrent saves the file to your Internet downloads folder (specified in the Internet pane of System Preferences), but you can choose another location to save the file by choosing the option in the Save To popup menu. Click Start to begin the download.

Download from a URL

Type in or paste the URL that you want to download from into the edit field. By default the download will be saved to the Desktop, but by clicking the appropriate radio button you can let it ask you for the name and location to save the download once the download starts. Click Start to begin the download.

Stopping and Resuming Downloads

You can stop a download at any time by closing the download window. When you want to resume the download, simply select it from the Recent popup menu in the Starting Point window. To show the Starting Point at any time, select it from the File menu.

Tomato Torrent remembers where you chose to save the last 10 downloads, and it will automatically use the remembered location when you resume a download this way. Note that if you use a Save panel and choose to replace an existing download, BitTorrent will try to resume the download for that file instead of replacing it (it will test if the existing download is corrupt or not).