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A prior post said to try Options -> Interface -> Reset File Associations, but I couldn't find any "Reset File Associations" under that tab, or anything that looked vaguely related.

Any help in making Vuze my primarily place for downloads?

I've spent the last hour + searching for any resemblance of what you were talking about...

Searched all throughout Preferences/Option Tab, found NO "reset" button next to anything about "file associations;" didn't even find the word "associations." Checked on all 3 modes.

Scrolled down to the bottom of Preferences, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

Since I installed osx10.6, limewire has become my default torrent app. I've looked and looked and the 'reset' option is nowhere to be seen on my Vuze either. Is it a Mac thing?

Anyone?

Not sure if Snow Leopard throws any wrenches in the works, but did you try the following.

To set torrent files to open with Vuze:
Get Info on a torrent, change the "open with:" option to Vuze and then click "Change All...".

To set your browser and other apps to open magnet links in Vuze, you could try installing RCDefaultApp which installs a System Preferences where you can edit the URL protocol for magnet links to open in Vuze and you can set the .torrent extension to open in Vuze.

same thing scroll all the way down on the interface tab aaalllll thee waaayy down make sure then youll finally see it

What if there is no magnet? I searched that one mine and nothing came up.

Had this problem myself for quite some time on an older Mac and kept getting the error message:

Protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program

until I finally figured it out. I had thought that the problem was that I was running OS 10.3.9, so I upgraded to 10.4.11, but in retrospect it shouldn't have been necessary, but I can't say for certain. That being said, all of these steps may not be necessary but this is the configuration that finally worked for me (although it does seem a little unstable, so some tweaking may be required):

1. In Firefox, in the URL bar enter:

about:config

You may get a warning message prompting you to continue with caution (you should).

2. One the information loads, scroll down the list. You are looking for four entries:

network.protocol-handler.app.magnet
network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet
network.protocol-handler.external.magnet
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.magnet

If they don't exist, you'll have to create them one-by-one; if they do exist, set them to the following values. To create them, control-click in the window and select:

New --> Boolean --> Name: network.protocol-handler.external.magnet --> Value: true
New --> Boolean --> Name: network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet --> Value: false
New --> Boolean --> Name: network.protocol-handler.warn-external.magnet --> Value: false
New --> String --> Name: network.protocol-handler.app.magnet --> Value: usr/bin/azureus

(If they already exist, then control-click and "Toggle" or "Modify"). The key for me was not to try to link to the GUI location of the app (/Applications/Azureus/Azureus.app), but rather the system level application, which is why I say this should have worked under 10.3.9.

FYI, I also have in the same list:

network.protocol-handler.expose-all --> Boolean --> Value: true.

Not sure if that's necessary, but once again ... works for me.

3. That should do the trick. You might have to Quit Firefox and relaunch, but after I configured it with those settings, magnet links worked again. I was slightly unstable and sometimes Azureus/Vuze would crash after a link, but relaunching seemed to solve the problem.

Good luck.

Thank-you!! This completely solved my issue. Much appreciated!

and how do i change this on chrome....? it keeps opening uTorrent automatically and i'd rather not delete uTorrent