http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=289826#p289826 Please don't stop reading a discussion mid-way without first checking on the resolution. Especially when the resolution came only a few posts after the very post you quoted. BEncode Editor is to BEncoded files what Notepad is to text files. Just because Notepad can edit .html files doesn't mean it should have to understand web browsers' interpretations the files. Similarly, just because BEncode Editor can edit resume.dat doesn't mean it should have to understand µTorrent's interpretation of the file. µTorrent failing the file because it failed the hash check doesn't necessarily mean the file was invalidly BEncoded. It just means there are extra validations that µTorrent applies on the data that BEncode Editor doesn't care to do (because it's outside the narrower scope of BEncoding). [h]Final Warning[/h] This utility is for advanced users. Read the warnings in the USES section, and read them again until you understand well what you're getting yourself into by using this editor. Its relatively intuitive UI can beguile most uninitiated/beginning users, as it has an inherent ability to invalidate many files through wrong and incorrect edits. BEncode Editor has facilities to allow you to regenerate the .fileguard hash correctly, but it won't hand-hold you through it. If you would rather not just remove the item, then you can hash the top-level dictionary after removing the .fileguard hash from the file using the Item menu, then re-add the .fileguard hash wherever it once was, but set the value to the hash that BEncode Editor calculated.