::Lost Sync::

The problem: you download torrents then you get some warning from your ISP saying that the RIA/BSA/you name it is pissed about what you downloaded ….

So you subscribe to a VPN or torrent proxy, such as BTGuard that gives you privacy.

But then your connection breaks and there is no auto-reconnect in OSX. So you start downloading/sharing your goodies through your normal IP address, because your torrent client does now know that it should stop downloading.

The solution:

The following will run in a loop, checking every second whether your VPN is connected (with the name BTGuard). If it is not, it kills uTorrent and keeps trying to reconnect. If it is connected it starts uTorrent ……

I am sure you can tweak this and make it nicer, do other fancy stuff, but that is what works for me. You need to save this as an application and check “stay open”.

——————————- file begin ——————–
on idle
tell application “System Events”
tell current location of network preferences
set myConnection to the service “BTGuard”
if current configuration of myConnection is not connected then
try
tell application “uTorrent”
quit
end tell
connect myConnection
–say “Retrying connection”
end try
else
tell application “uTorrent”
run
end tell
end if
end tell
return 1
end tell
end idle

——————————- file end ———————-

Hope this helps others out there