Torrent Download Issues

[Sup3rkirby]

This is probably a basic question for you here so sorry to upset teh n3rdz

Basically, I am trying to download a torrent. It is 4.37 GB. I have a 60 GB hard drive on my laptop here with 18.5 GB of free space left.

The funny thing is that uTorrent here seems to be telling me that 4.37 > 18.5. It gives me an error a few seconds into the download: "Error: There is not enough space on the disk."

Now how could I not have enough space? I have more than 4 times the space of that file. There must be some setting or something that is messing me up here. I know I have enough space to download this file and would really like to get it going while I still have this great connection. So the sooner I could have this resolved, the better.

Thanks in advance.

 

[GamingX]

Did you try Disk Cleanup?

 

[Slothie]

Which build of mTorrent?

 

[GamingX]

Another thing is when you are downloading torrents some clients allocate the disk space on the disc even before it is downloaded, in this case it might be that you have multiple torrents queued and the client has allocated disk space to all the torrents leaving the other torrent with less space.

 

[Sup3rkirby]

Disk Cleanup will give me 105 mb total. I had pre-allocation on, but why would windows explorer tell me drive C: has 18.5 GB of free space if I really didn't? I only have one active torrent and that is my 4.37 GB file. Nothing else even in the list. I've turned off the pre-allocation so maybe it will not need as much space while/before downloading.

And I'm using 1.7 Beta of uTorrent(build 2448).


[EDIT]
Ok, this is really p***ing me off right now. Open up My Computer and did a bit of clean up. 20.1 GB FREE SPACE. This is a torrent that is 4.37 GB. Last time I checked 4.37 goes into 20.1 a couple times.

I turned off the pre-allocation. I made sure not a single torrent existed except this one. I even went and removed all the old .torrent files I didn't need and left only that one. Tried to download and was told that same error.


Does anyone know how this works? How can it tell me I don't have enough disk space when I have 4 times the needed amount. How can it stretch the file over 4x its size? I really don't know what uTorrent is thinking. I would try a new torrent client, but I like uTorrent a lot and love how it is so small. I can trust uTorrent and not have to worry about any extra 'stuff'.

Any suggestions anyone? Heck, if this keeps up I'll have to hook up my USB HD and see if I can dload straight to that....

 

[GamingX]

You could use a more stable verison of uTorrent, like 1.7.5(build 4602).

 

[Slothie]

You might want to try saving the torrent under the root folder of C:\ and see if that works.

If it does, it may be because of some space quota you set somewhere.

 

[mattspec]

check your hard drive format, if its fat32 the maximum file size is 4gb, im guessing that the 4.3*gb is a dvd iso so youll need to go to ntfs

 

[Sup3rkirby]

*applauds mattspec*
Bravo my friend. While I have not converted my file system, I know you are right. I don't know why it never crossed my mind. I think because this laptop has been back and forth(with back restores and such) so maybe I just forgot.

Well, it would appear this was the solution to my troubles so now I'll be converting this back to ntfs, then I should be good to go again.

Thank you so much mattspec. I feel kind of stupid for letting that slip my mind, but none-the-less, I finally get to dload this file. Hopefully this good seed/leech ratio will stay this way and I can get this 4.37 GB pretty quickly.


[EDIT]
Well it's done and everything is fine.
But sadly this 1.5 mbit connection is useless with between 2-6 kb/sec dload rate.... Hopefully this will pick up. I don't want to wait a couple days... *sigh*

 

[Sohail]

Are you sure that you're downloading the torrent into the right drive, why don;t you try messing with all the settings and see if there's anything you can do fom there.

I don't know how you do things on Windows but on Mac i would just go into the application preferences...

 

[coolcory]

try using BitComet it's better

 

[Sup3rkirby]

Are you sure that you're downloading the torrent into the right drive, why don;t you try messing with all the settings and see if there's anything you can do fom there.

I don't know how you do things on Windows but on Mac i would just go into the application preferences...

Did you miss my last post? There was an edit at the end of it. Mattspec solved it for me.

It wasn't a single thing that I was doing wrong, but rather a wrong partition format which can't hold filesizes like the 4.3 GB one uTorrent was trying to create. After converting to NTFS I was able to download the file with no problems(other than the poor seeding speeds), so everything is fine now.


I had actually tried different drives though. But my portable Hard Drive is also FAT, so I couldn't get it to download to that either.