onetiger Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Although I set up uTorrent to download files to Desktop\Downloads, it insists on creating a Downloads folder in My Documents too. Both these folders were empty before I started the following download.According to the uTorrent GUI, I am only halfway through downloading a 4.3 gb video ( which should mean that approx 2.15 gb is downloaded),yet, at the moment, the Desktop\Downloads folder contains 4.15 gb and the My Documents\Downloads folder contain 4.33 gb of files from this one download. Neither of the folders contain all the files on the torrent.Now, the computer is warning me that there is only a few megabytes of free disk space left on my hard drive.I have a dilema. I dare not delete any of the files because there are slight size variations in the torrent file sizes given, the files in the My Documents folder and the files in the Desktop folder. Apart from that, I'm frightened that any deletion could destroy the download.How can 2.15 gb turn into 8.48 gb? Can someone please tell me what is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Right click the torrent in the list, and open containing folder. That is where µTorrent's downloading to currently. Any other files do not belong to that torrent. Where it's coming from? Dunno, but µTorrent certainly doesn't touch any files outside of the specified target directory (at least I've never heard of that before). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetiger Posted February 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 I have done as you said. The containing folder for the torrent is shown as the My Documents\Downloads folder. The download is now complete and is in this folder. I am now seeding it.The small actual torrent file (with the green uTorrent icon) is with the duplicate files (which didn't quite complete) in the Desktop\Downloads folder. Am I safe to delete the ones in this folder (except for the small torrent file) so I can free some space on my hard disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 14, 2007 Report Share Posted February 14, 2007 Mm... Try moving them somewhere else, or rename the containing folder. If µTorrent doesn't complain (and it shouldn't), then I guess you can delete them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetiger Posted February 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Done, and without problem. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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