SmashMan Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Hello all. I've enjoyed using uTorrent as my primary client until this problem arose. The torrent I am currently downloading halts and uTorrent tells me "Error: The system cannot find the path specified."I did a little research on this particular problem and found that it has something to do with the filename and the files. I did notice that the file names do indeed exceed the 255 character limit. So, I followed the directions described here (http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#While_torrenting_I_get_error_the_system_cannot_find_the_path_specified) and created a folder closer to the root (C:\T). Unfortunately, I'm still encountering problems.Besides sticking around and having the restart the downloading process every time the uTorrent halts the torrent, is there anything I can do? Many thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l3wnoaigats Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 There is nothing you can do with µTorrent to solve this. Try Azureus (for that particular torrent) which doesn't have this limitation. Plus you can target different download location for every file inside the torrent (on file basis not by directory) ...Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 It's not a µTorrent limitation. It's a WINDOWS limitation. Whoever made the .torrent is on a Unix-like OS which doesn't have that limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l3wnoaigats Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Yes and no. WinXP support UNCW (or Long UNC) where max_path is ~32k chars. JRE and Azureus are using it. µTorrent doesn't - it's easier to use only UNC (from a programmer point of view). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 It's pretty hacky, because Explorer can't browse/manipulate files and folders exceeding the path length, and a lot of applications can't deal with files prepended with \\?\ (which is how you bypass the path limitation). So I wouldn't consider it real support.As far as I know, long UNC WAS implemented into µT (I'll have to check and make sure), but obviously only works on NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l3wnoaigats Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 You're right. Windows Explorer can't handle UNCW, and FAT/FAT32 file systems also lack of support for it. But winapi unicode libraries support it (check http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858.aspx).As for most other apps ... I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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