My Azureus updating experience was also annoying, but less annoying than yours, fortunately.
My first red flag was the fact that after downloading the new version, the "install now?" window looked distinctly un-Azureus-y and, presumably, Vuze-y.
After restarting, the thing looked like Vuze. Yech. It'd kept looking like Azureus through a bunch of upgrades so far (from before Vuze even existed).
Fortunately, Wikipedia told me how to change back to the Azureus UI, so they apparently just changed the default, not removed the option.
And it kept right on seeding the torrents that were seeding before. (I didn't have any currently downloading, so I can't tell whether it would have lost those.) I haven't noticed any other preferenced getting lost except for the UI.
I did see, when upgrading, it promising that I was "just one click away!", but there was a little checkbox hidden in the bottom left saying something like "Customise installation", so I checked that. And a couple of screens later, it suggested it add the "Vuze toolbar" (or the like). So I unchecked that. (You may have left that checked, or just gone with the one-click install, which presumably also defaults to installing the toolbar.)
All I want is Azureus to work as the awesome BitTorrent client that it is, and NOT as my media center, nor as a media finding tool.
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My first red flag was the fact that after downloading the new version, the "install now?" window looked distinctly un-Azureus-y and, presumably, Vuze-y.
After restarting, the thing looked like Vuze. Yech. It'd kept looking like Azureus through a bunch of upgrades so far (from before Vuze even existed).
Fortunately, Wikipedia told me how to change back to the Azureus UI, so they apparently just changed the default, not removed the option.
And it kept right on seeding the torrents that were seeding before. (I didn't have any currently downloading, so I can't tell whether it would have lost those.) I haven't noticed any other preferenced getting lost except for the UI.
I did see, when upgrading, it promising that I was "just one click away!", but there was a little checkbox hidden in the bottom left saying something like "Customise installation", so I checked that. And a couple of screens later, it suggested it add the "Vuze toolbar" (or the like). So I unchecked that. (You may have left that checked, or just gone with the one-click install, which presumably also defaults to installing the toolbar.)
All I want is Azureus to work as the awesome BitTorrent client that it is, and NOT as my media center, nor as a media finding tool.
Agreed.