BassMechanic Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 I have a 22.1 GB file in my Torrent Jobs List. Only 2.05 GB have already been downloaded and it's been there over 2½ months. I don't anticipate it will get done anytime soon so I'd like to know if there is a way to recover some of the HDD space. Pre-allocate all files is unchecked and I have not modified any of the Advanced Options. I'm using µTorrent 1.8.1 (build 12639). It would be nice to have it only take up HDD space when caching for data it has already downloaded and is to be written to file. I don't care about disk or file fragmentation. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 It's too late now, but for next time, you can use diskio.sparse_files, which enables sparse file support in µTorrent on NTFS-formatted partitions. Sparse files (in conjunction with BitTorrent, or any other write-intensive application) are probably unusable under Vista, though, because of a very annoying Vista bug that Microsoft never seemed interested in fixing when notified about it.Each file gets fully allocated when they are first written to disk unless sparse files is enabled. An alternative to sparse files is bt.compact_allocation, but that comes with its own set of drawbacks. See the user manual's description of both options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassMechanic Posted December 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Thanks for the response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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