Right when I was sitting down at the computer trying to figure out what to write about a new comment was posted here on Keynote 2 Keynote. The comment from Dave included a question. What a coincidence, I needed something to write about and Dave provided me with an idea for a quick tutorial. Here’s Dave’s question.
Do you know a way to get transmission to automatically start up and download?
I’m guessing that you mean startup automatically when you boot up your Mac? If so you’re in luck Dave. Not only do I know how to automatically startup transmission, but the method will work for any application :)
The bread crumbs lead to the System Preferences and this is where you’ll begin your journey. Once you open the System Preferences you want to click on Accounts, it’s in the System category towards the bottom. Near the top of the Accounts window you’re looking for the button that says Login Items, click that. Note: This tutorial is for OS X 10.4.9, if you are using a previous version of OS X the Login Items may be located somewhere else.
Once you make it to the Login Items window you want to click the + button that’s depicted in the screenshot above. The + button brings up a dialog box which allows you to select a program that you would like to launch at startup. Click Add once you’re finished. At this point you’re 99% finished. If you’d like the application that you are launching at startup to be hidden (ie using the Apple+H keystroke) by default then click the checkbox next to the item. This will keep you desktop nice and clutter free if you end up adding lots of Login Items. Wasn’t that fairly painless? You can now setup any program you’d like to launch when you boot up your mac using these simple instructions.
Now back to Dave’s original question. Transmission is designed to begin downloading as soon as the application is launched. So if you setup Transmission as a Launch Item your torrents should begin downloading as soon as you boot up your Mac! I Hope this answered your question and maybe enlightened a few other readers as well :)
If anyone would like some further reading about Launch Items, MacFixIt.com has a pretty decent Q&A article about the subject.
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