hometownnerd Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 I have been using utorrent now for quite a while, and really like it, it does almost everything I need in a BT client. I have installed 1.22 now and now I get the unable to save the resume file error. My system also becomes very unstable and does not want to do much of anything until I have rebooted. Is there something that causes this issue? This is the first error I have received from utorrent and I am confused as to what causes this. I have XP SP2 with an Athlon 64 3200 and a gig of ram and three hard drives and all of them have plenty of space available. Please help.Thanks for such a great app,Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted November 28, 2005 Report Share Posted November 28, 2005 Reported here too. Hmm, doesn't seem to be a solution that anyone else has noticed...Have you tried deleting resume.dat when µT is closed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gann Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Im experiencing the same problem. Everytime it gives the unable to save resume file error.... Any update on how to fix this problem? And, where is the resume.dat file located? greets, Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hometownnerd Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 It is happening enough now that I have to stop using utorrent for now, hopefully it can be fixed. I tried deleting it and it did not help me at all. After it does it I have to kill the utorrent task and the explorer task and restart explorer.Hopefully it gets resolved.Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gann Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 I do not have the problem that utorrent stops responding or anything. Only the message that utorrent is unable to save the resume file... very irritating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludde Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 The resume file is located in %APPDATA%\uTorrentmake sure the process has write access to there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gann Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 it has full access there. The problem remains...The exact message is: Unable to save the resume file. Some data may be lost. Another program may have the file open, or the disk is full. Please correct this and click retry. If you press cancel, the resume file will not be saved. It does not have any effect when you click cancel or retry. In both cases the message returns. the torrent download goes on without any problems in both cases either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludde Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Do you have an old resume.dat.new / resume.dat.new lying around in the way, perhaps?Make backups first, but try deleting resume.dat.new / resume.dat / resume.dat.old and see if it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gann Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 deleting those files do not solve the problem...for some time it does but eventually the problem returns.... strange huh??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roughdraft Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 just wanted to mention that i received this problem when i started monitoring file activity on my system with winternals filemon, and after disabling filemon, the resume file error messages disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunBeam Posted August 18, 2007 Report Share Posted August 18, 2007 Simply head to that location, an delete everything in that folder (%APPDATA%/uTorrent). Make sure you set everything to be visible (Tools > Folder Options > View > Show all hidden files and folders)The error is known to occur (from what I've tested) due to insufficient space on the partition uTorrent is trying to save the torrent on. Or, if you have per say 2 HDDs, plus the 2nd in, and download on that one (let's say drive F) and remove it, then when trying to download a new torrent, some freaky stuff might happen...Anyway, I removed all files from %APPDATA%/uTorrent, and it's all working fine now. You'll have to reconfigure uTorrent, but that's not a thing I can't live with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted August 19, 2007 Report Share Posted August 19, 2007 @SunBeam: You did notice that you're giving advice to someone who posted more than a year ago, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isha Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 iam also facing the same problem..i read u alls suggestions n iam not able to find this folder "%APPDATA%/uTorrent"..cn u plz guide me 2wards it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 http://utorrent.com/faq.php#What_is_AppData.3F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmiuc Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 Not to drag open this subject..But i started having this problem... I use vista x86 and found that my UAC was causing this problem.. its funny why it will run, and download, but i think when the program exits its writes .dat to be .dat.old so maybe no permission is granted... Next i am wondering why its not writing the files into the %AppData%\uTorrent folder anymore... its writing in the 'c:\program file\uttorent folder... a change? or is it because I am running the 1.8 beta version?Thanks!C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 It won't write to %PROGRAM FILES%... normal users can't write there. Are you sure you didn't put settings.dat in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 If there's already a settings.dat in %ProgramFiles%\uTorrent, it'll use that directory instead of %AppData%\uTorrent (assuming you let µTorrent install into %ProgramFiles%\uTorrent, that is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 13, 2008 Report Share Posted April 13, 2008 You need to remove the .dat files from that dir, or run it as admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vhalia5 Posted September 30, 2010 Report Share Posted September 30, 2010 A simple and effective way I used to fix this problem was to go to %APPDATA%/ on your computer. Find the uTorrent folder, right-click -> Properties -> Uncheck "Read-Only". Once you press OK, if you go back into the Properties, it'll say "Read-Only" again but the error in uTorrent should disappear... well, it worked for me, plus, I'm using Windows XP, Service Pack 3 and using uTorrent v2.04.Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truglx Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 For me, there was a file in %AppData%\uTorrent called simply "resume", it is a VCD file that had become corrupted, I was unable to delete or remove the file, so I right clicked and pressed "restore previous versions" and restored the earliest version I could. The problem seems to have been resolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasvb Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 It's resume.dat you've just hid the extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 You've also necro'd an 8 year old thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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