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Error: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation.
Can anyone help me solve this problem? I'm downloading a 5.45GB .mdf file with free hd space of 30GB. I'm running on vista home premium sp1. I'm using utorrent 1.8beta.
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You need to disable sparse files in utorrent, make a COPY of your files, delete the originals, move the copy back, then force a re-check.
There's a bug with sparse files in Vista that makes them completely unusable.
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When you say disable sparse files, do you mean go to Preferences>Advanced and set "diskio.sparse_files" to false?
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Yes. Even if you disable it now, the files are still sparse, so you have to do the copy trick to make them not sparse anymore.
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Problem solved. Thank you Firon.
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I'm having the exact same problem and I tried to do what you said, but when I try to copy the files I get the same file system limitation error, only through a windows prompt instead of utorrent. How do I copy the files?
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You can't even copy the files to another directory, or partition? If you can't do that.. you have no choice but to delete and start over (with sparse disabled).
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Sadly, it doesn't look like Microsoft feels inclined to fix this rather critical bug.
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At least not until it's published as a security vulnerability..
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Microsoft is a large company. Changes to ntfs.sys ... don't rollout just willy nilly 
Maybe post XP SP4 / Vista SP2
OP: It's still an oddity that you can't copy the file... unless your drive is also going bad??
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Hey I was readin this topic because I had the same issues, and this really helped..
@Evanathsma: I had the same problem copying it from the utorrent directory, the windows error.. But I bypassed it by using "The File Splitter", I split up the files in smaller parts and then copied them out of the folder. I joined them again and voila, its been working thus far, Its worth the effort and doesnt take long.. certainly not as long as downloading the whole file again!
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