bwishkey Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I am not a computer wizard by any means and a response in non technical terms would be great. I am running windows vista and utorrent 1.6.1 and ever since getting the new version of utorrent I start to download a torrent and after a minute or 2 the torrent stops and a message comes up saying "errorr Access is denied". I have tried the suggestions on the trouble shooting guide. I am not running msn desktop and I have scanned my hard drives to find a diskio_flush file to no avail. I am getiing really frustrated. Will anyone please help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Did you read the FAQ entry on that as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwishkey Posted February 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yes that is where I got the information on the things that I tried. Some don't apply to me and I can not find any type of flush file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestranger Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 I am having almost the exact same issue....repeated "process cannot access file" messages....i'm fairly new to utorrent, but i was able to puzzle through all the suggestions in the faq with no success (no google or msn desktop, i use firefox, not explorer, and i turned off file indexing. or at least, i'm pretty sure i did. antivirus also not an issue)I can't pinpoint where the snag is, but three days ago i was using WinXp, WinMedia10, and the version of utorrent immediately before the new release a day or two ago. i experienced no problems whatsoever, and my speed was frequently 80kb+With a new computer two days ago came Vista and WinMedia11 and the new version of utorrent. thus my trouble pinpointing the origin of the error message.however, i've found the following:1. i have no difficulty downloading flac files.2. i have no difficulty downloading xvid files.3. speed has been reduced in both cases, however4. mp3 generate the same error message every time "process cannot access file...being used by another program"5. the mp3 downloads are interrupted at random points, and simultaneous download attempts are not stopped at the same time.any insight to this issue would be appreciated.....thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewilliams05 Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 I have the exact same problem, I've tried everything the FAQ suggests but with no success. PLEASE HELP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnist Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 I also have the same problem, some help would be great...I just did a clean install of Vista home basic, then downloaded the recent copy of Utorrent, and I receive the same "error access is denied" when I try to continue downlaoding a torrent that I have 23.9% already done... I had a copy of utorrent on my windows XPmedia center edition and had no problems with it at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewilliams05 Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 I run on Home Premium. Utorrent used to work fine on my old operating system but the random error occurs since I got my new PC with vista, i can continue the download straight after but its just a pain having to keep starting it again. I've had to resort to using azureus for the time being until someone is kind enough to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvaraleau Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hello, I am having the same problem and am anoyed that I have signed up and paid for a service that I cannot use. The help section has not given me and information that has solved this problem. If anyone knows how I can fix this that would be great. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 Kvaraleau, re paying for ut: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=8174It sounds like the windows vista indexing system is causing problems with file locks to me.Look into disabling it or excluding your download directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvaraleau Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I disabled all indexing. Is there something I may have missed? It took me forever to figure out how to do that and it is frustrating that it doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bop Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 right i have worked out that if your using vista, you need to make sure that you do not have your download directory on the root of c: (if c: is your primary drive)(ie. set your download directory to "c:\users\yourname\downloads" and not "c:\foldername") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewilliams05 Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 okay. I found it only does it when downloading music. everything else downloads perfectly. please omsebody help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Then it's a problem with some music library indexing software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvaraleau Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Thank you Bop, problem solved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taco007 Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 Make sure you guys have full control for the user your using on those hard drives I was having the same problem but I figured it was a security issued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverwinternite Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I agree with davewilliams05 that the problem arises only where music files are concerned. I've switched off the media centre monitoring, as well as indexing of my dl folder.. but the problem is still recurring..Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated~ >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liscadipesce Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I`ve had this problem for a couple of weeks and I`ve finally been able to pinpoint my problem. This only happens when I download music.I was playing around with processes until I found the one doing it. This may only be a problem to a very few amount of people. When I bought my computer with Vista, it came preloaded with a Roxio program. With it, it ran 3 Rox processes that somehow interfered with the music I was downloading. I shut off all 3 Rox processes and things are going smoothly now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverwinternite Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 I`ve had this problem for a couple of weeks and I`ve finally been able to pinpoint my problem. This only happens when I download music.I was playing around with processes until I found the one doing it. This may only be a problem to a very few amount of people. When I bought my computer with Vista, it came preloaded with a Roxio program. With it, it ran 3 Rox processes that somehow interfered with the music I was downloading. I shut off all 3 Rox processes and things are going smoothly now!This worked for me!! Thanks, you're a real life saver.. =) Darn those Roxio progs.. actually had to patch some drag and drop feature from it before as well, to get my Vista going smoothly.. tsk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitedmn Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Any other ideas. I have the same problem and I've tried everything listed here.Any other known processes that could be causing a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitedmn Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Nevermind.... Task manager was only displaying my running processes and not all of them so I missed some. I found some more roxio process that were running and killed them. Now everything is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewilliams05 Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 i feel like an idiot. it was just media player monitering my folders. its fixed now tho, no thanks to you guys lol.in reply to neverwinternite: i dont know if the monitering folders for media player is different to media center but its worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xamarikku Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 I still have the problem! Help someone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Got Roxio, Nero, Microsoft's Search Indexer, or Microsoft Media Player running?One of them is probably denying uTorrent access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeano101010 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 davewilliams05 => Thanks a mill for identifying problem, this was driving me mad.It seems the Media Player was monitoring my default directories e.g C:\User\*.* where uTorrent saves downloads by default. The simplest way to solve this was to change the directory that uTorrent downloads to e.g. C:\uTorrentMusic\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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