SnapperJR Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 Alright, I got a few problems:1) First of all, it seems once every few days, while torrenting, I will get a Error: I/O device failed to something and EVERYTHING will stop working (the I/O device in question is prolly my external HDD), I believe explorer.exe hangs, and the only thing that works is mIRC. I can't safely close uTorrent as well.So I either bluescreen after that, or I have to manually restart my PC, and when that happens, my uTorrent resume.dat ALWAYS gets corrupted. Deleting the resume.dat and using the resume.dat.old as the new resume.dat doesn't work as well. I have to manually add all my torrents back.Any way to solve this problems? I believe the Error is caused by my own faulty external drive, but not sure how to fix it, a suggestion on how to properly restore my torrents easily would be appreciated. Unless I should nightly save a copy of the resume.dat file? 'Cause I usually leave my PC on and go to sleep to download + seed. I download quite a bit so unless I save a copy of resume.dat everytime I download something new, it'd be quite troublesome, is there an alternative or am I stuck with that?2) Also another problem, after the last BSoD I got today, uTorrent started to save my .torrents and resume.dat and resume.dat.old and settings.dat etc ONTO my desktop, no longer on %appdata%\uTorrent. I had to force uTorrent via the "Location of torrents, Store .torrents in:" to restore it back to the appdata folder. I don't see the same option for resume.dat and the rest of those files, so it's constantly saving resume.dat, resume.dat.old to my desktop. How do I fix this?Any help given is appreciated, thanks.
Ultima Posted January 13, 2009 Report Posted January 13, 2009 1. Backing up is the only reasonable workaround. The solution would be to fix the root cause of the BSODs.2. Is your EXE on the desktop along with a settings.dat? If so, don't do that, because µTorrent will assume you want the executable's folder to be the settings directory if you have a settings.dat in the same directory as it.
SnapperJR Posted January 13, 2009 Author Report Posted January 13, 2009 Yes, my EXE is on my desktop, but the settings.dat and resume.dat etc files have ONLY started being saved to my desktop after the last crash, previously, as is normal, they were all saved in %appdata%\utorrentDeleting and moving the .dat files to back to the %appdata% folder, does not work, utorrent in its routines "saves" saves them back to desktop, so after a minute, resume.dat appears then resume.dat.old then a few minutes later settings.dat etcetcHow do I fix it so that it goes back to %appdata%\utorrent?
Ultima Posted January 13, 2009 Report Posted January 13, 2009 ...? That should never happen. Can you check the Logger tab to see if you find a message similar to the following upon start?[2009-01-13 08:24:40] NOTE: Settings file found in directory of executable; using that.
moogly Posted January 15, 2009 Report Posted January 15, 2009 Right click on the Logger window and enable error logging.
Ultima Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 http://i44.tinypic.com/29m6nnk.png(And no, you don't need to enable any logger options -- this is always shown regardless of what you have checked)
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