Problems after turning off computer

[Kyaura]

I have this weird problem with utorrent. Everytime I turn off my computer or restart it, utorrent gets an error. I can't continue any downloads I've been downloading or seeding and I can't add new torrents.

What happens is it will download for about 2 minutes and then automatically say "Error: Access is denied". I've read about that error and I don't have any Google or MSN Desktop's, antivirus's or anything that would bother with it. I don't have the file open and I'm not trying to view the file.

I forget how I've fixed it before, but after doing something it goes back to being normal, but It always happens again.

Also utorrent never saves my downloads in the place I tell it too, it typically will save them in random places or maybe the folder that I downloaded something from firefox into the most recently.

Augh, please help, thank you.

[thelittlefire]

... where are you saving to, check General tab, Save As field. Ctrl-P > Directories, where have you set downloads to go? If you press "..." browse button what happens?

[Kyaura]

It should be saving into my downloads folder, and when I presss "..." it goes to an empty downloads folder.

But that problems isn't as big of a deal as my other problem.

[thelittlefire]

WHERE is the path it saves to (What happens if you right click, open containing folder)? Default with no directory set in Preferences is My Documents\Downloads

Access Denied... you may not have write access to that directory. Are you sure you're not running anything which indexes files?

[Kyaura]

Sorry, currently it's C:\Windows because I opened something in there or something.

I'm pretty sure i'm not, at least in task manager there is nothing not normal.

[thelittlefire]

So for a torrent with this "Access Denied" error you're trying to save to \Windows? Well you obviously can't do that. At least on Vista, as a non-administrator. You're not on Vista are you?

You need to reset your Directories settings, and use the BROWSE "..." button to select the folder. Say OK. Close uTorrent.

You can start > run > %APPDATA%\uTorrent to get at uT's .DAT files for the next step. I would recommend http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=31306 unless you want to right click, advanced, set download location on all loaded torrents. With Ultima's editor you can go to the data path for each torrent (directly under [ROOT]) and change it to the correct one. Save the file and open uT back up.

[Kyaura]

I am on vista and the dicectories settings are currently at C:\Users\Aurora\Documents\Downloads, not windows. It happens to be windows right now because that's the first folder I opened, it seems almost random. It was my document folder previously, and my home folder before that.

[thelittlefire]

...and you set a older in Ctrl-P > Directories? That is odd. Truly :/

[Kyaura]

It's quite strange, it's as if I open utorrent and it times me and whatever folder I happen to have open it will choose to save the file in. I guess I will go with my friends advise and just save the torrent automatically when I get it.

I also solved the problem by running utorrent as a administrator, I guess I will just have to run it that way whenever I open it.

Though not everything is fixed I guess it's as fixed as it will get, thank you very much for going through the trouble of helping me!