boncuk Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Well, I bought a new hd last monday and did a clean install of xp. I always make one partition for xp of around 80 gb, and the second partition was about 400. I called this second partition m (as in media). IT's a ntfs 500gb disk.I also got the newest utorrent, 1.8 and started to download some stuff. I did check drive c for defragmentation where windows is located and where I installed lot's of proggies since monday. But I didn't check drive m becoz as far as I know my downloads had never any fragmentation until now. But I felt more and more there was something wrong, so I did check just now and drive m was 100% fragmented. I didn't put anything on that drive except what I got with utorrent. What could have caused this change in behaviour? I am talking about 0% to 100% change, see pic here:Until last week I had always a full blue bar at the top after using utorrent and now suddenly a full red one. Anything I can do about this? I want it to be defragged as it was before, even if it means worse speeds or something. Any ideas?Apart from a new hd, I also have a intel quadcore q9450 and new mobo, I first had amd 4200+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Did you tell uTorrent to preallocate the file?...Or use sparse files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boncuk Posted August 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Well, one of the first things I always did was to tell utorrent to preallocate all files. But now I found out that as of v 1.8 utorrent has sparse files on as default in advance settings. Sparse files on overrules preallocation, so I have turned off the sparse files (set it to false in advanced settings). I have preallocation on, I think it was always like this before v 1.8 so I hope this will solve my problem, otherwise I'm gonna switch back to an older version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 v1.8 moved around and/or added a few features.I find that a tiny bit annoying myself trying to locate features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Pre-allocate overrides sparse files in 1.8, not the other way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boncuk Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Oh, sorry, I mixed that up. So what could have caused this than? I tried a few things, it helped a bit to turn off sparse files, but it's not like before. I hope it's not my new hardware config or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTV Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 I noticed this too. When I downloaded 1.8 and started some new torrents, I found out that the size of the downloading file is say 1GB, but the "size on disk" is 4MB in the beginning of the download.I have preallocate checked and sparse_files true as default. Is that how its supposed to work? And if yes how to make the "Size on disk" as big as the files size right from the start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Disable sparse files, I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTV Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Yes thats right. Preallocate all files ticked and sparse_files false and im back to old and tried 1.7.7 behavior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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