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How can I find out what file uTorrent can't open?


albrnick

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Hello!

I've got a torrent with several hundred files. After my computer crashed, when I try to continue DLing that torrent, it errors out around 60% of the way through "checking" the torrent initially with the message: "Error: The system cannot open the file". I'm assuming something got corrupt when the computer crashed. I'd love to delete the file, but I've no idea which one failed. Is there anyway to figure out which file could not be opened in the torrent?

Thanks for your time,

-Nick

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Thanks for the responses! :)

Animorc: Re: Force Re-check. Same error as before. 60% through

Splintax: Re: Logger tab. Yeah, I had hopes something would show up there, but just seems to be peer to peer type traffic, not file system stuff. Good idea on the torrent, I'll re download that and see what happens. = )

Thanks!

-Nick

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So here is what all else I tried, and what worked. :)

After not being able to find the file, I wrote a program that went and opened every file, and read all the data in it, hoping I could figure out what file was causing probs. Unfortunately, it successfully read all the files just fine.

So then I realized that I was using a mapped network drive. Which worked just fine when the torrent was new, but perhaps with all the data to go through (Several gigs), is having issues? (At the same spot?!?) So I copied the torrent to a local drive, and it has worked just fine. So I suspect it had to do with it being a network drive?

Thanks everyone for their help! I hope this thread helps someone in the future. :)

-Nick

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  • 8 months later...

I realize this is a very old post but it came up in a google search. Anyway, I can confirm this bug and that it still exists in 1.6. A large torrent of many small files would say "File could not be opened" about 40% of the way through a recheck when running over a network drive. Moving it to a local drive made it work just fine.

And I don't know if this is a clue as to how to fix it, but I also had another large torrent running over the same network drive and the instant the force recheck on the non-working torrent failed the working torrent stopped as well.

Finally, uTorrent is not the only program that had these problems. BitComet and BitTornado all did similar things. Maybe it's Windows.

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  • 1 year later...

Yes, I am aware this is an antique thread, however I am having the same problem with uTorrent 1.7.5

I have a torrent with ~17000 files which is stored on a samba share under Linux. During the check phase, uTorrent the torrent is stopped with an error: "Error: The system cannot open the file." The log contains errors of the form: [22:22:22] Error opening "\\machine\directory\file":

After digging into the problem, I realized uTorrent is reaching the 10000 open file limit of Samba. If I delete roughly 7000 files, the torrent proceeds to the download state. The shortened output from smbstatus:

8703 500 DENY_NONE 0x20089 RDONLY EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /directory

Share/Path/File1 Sat Nov 3 22:26:37 2007

8703 500 DENY_NONE 0x20089 RDONLY EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /directory

Share/Path/File2 Sat Nov 3 22:28:20 2007

8703 500 DENY_NONE 0x20089 RDONLY EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /directory

Share/Path/File3 Sat Nov 3 22:28:15 2007

And finally, the output of 'smbstatus | wc' as the failure approched:

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9304 120912 1582297

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9805 127425 1666086

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9882 128426 1678917

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9921 128933 1685420

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9951 129323 1690426

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9977 129661 1694779

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

9999 129947 1698446

< At this point the torrent stopped>

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

6209 80677 1055235

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

1328 17224 224343

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

95 1195 15537

[root@machine etc]# smbstatus -L | wc

95 1195 15537

So, can a developer reproduce this failure?

Box

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  • 8 months later...

So there's no way to fix this in 1.7.7? I moved some large torrents across to a network drive to seed and I get this no matter what I do. They're all 20+ GB with at least 2000 files in them, no more than 3000 files. It'd really be nice to be able to seed them from the network drive, and all betas/RCs are banned from the tracker I'm seeding them at so upgrading to RC6 isn't really an option. I got one torrent with ~1500 files in it to work, but any that have more than that aren't.

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