Not enough free space

[mp27uk]

I keep receiving this message when downloading files. Ive checked the FAQ and it states I need to change my drive to NTFS which I have down on both drives I use. When entering this command prompt it states they are already NTFS. Can anyone help

[moogly]

Check if your HD has enough free space.

[mp27uk]

Ive got at least 40gig free space but its not just big files the error appears on. I was downloading a file of 10 meg and it came up!!

[Firon]

Are you using µTorrent 1.8.1?

[mp27uk]

Yes using the latest version

[thelittlefire]

Is that the exact error message in the status column of the main torrent pane (also in General tab).

[mp27uk]

The exact error message states "Error: there is not enough space on the disk" It does also show up in the status bar on the general tab

[thelittlefire]

And you're SURE in the "Save As" field you are trying to save to this drive which has XX GiB of free space? Do you have quotas enabled on those drives/for users??

[Feline]

I have a similar problem. I get the message "file exceeds filesystem size limit". The torrent I'm downloading is 4.2Gb and there is over 12Gb free space in my HD. I have many times successfully downloaded files that are altogether over 4Gb. However, they have been split into 1Gb files. Is there any possibility to modify the settings so I could get this 4.2Gb ISO file?

[Switeck]

FAT32 formatted drives CANNOT handle single files larger than 4 GB.

You'll need to convert the drive to NTFS format.

[Firon]

You MUST convert to NTFS. There is no alternative.

[Feline]

I've tried to look for this but have to admit that I don't know how to convert to NTFS. Could you help me with this?

[GTHK]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314097/en-us

[legoland]

Hello. I'm receiving the same error message: There is not enough space on the disk.

I'm using µTorrent 1.8.1 build 12639, Windows XP SP3, NTFS formatted partitions. This error occurs (as I've seen) only if the free space is less than the double of the download size (eg: I have 800-900 MB free and I'm downloading a 700 MB file). Usually the torrent stops at 90% or more, but sometimes it stops earlier. If I hit start the download continues. There are no other applications who could fill that space.

Also two lines get logged:

[2009-01-15 18:50:41] IO Error:112 line:459 align:512 pos:9390080 count:524800 actual:-99

[2009-01-15 18:50:41] IO Error:112 line:685 align:512 pos:9390296 count:524288 actual:1

This problem never happened if the free space is at least double as the download size (eg: downloading the same 700 MB file with 1,5 GB free space).

[Firon]

So free up some more space?

[legoland]

I'm freeing, but with 1.7.6 or earlier versions I didn't had this problem and I think this isn't a feature.

[moogly]

But it's clearly a bad idea to want to save a file of 700MB if your remaining free space is 800 or 900MB. You should keep several free MB and stop to fill your HD especially if your OS is running on it.

[Firon]

It's not µTorrent preventing you from eating all the space. Windows reserves some disk space.

[legoland]

Well, as I said with uTorrent 1.7.6 I never had this problem. The disk where I download isn't a system disk (it a separate disk only for downloads), System restore isn't active and with 1.8.1 after it stops if I continue the download it finishes, so only when 1.8.1 is downloading and only one time per download Windows reserves some space? It's a little strange but anyway, thank you for the support.

LE: It happened now on a 2 GB torrent with 15 GB of free space on the partition.