bluearrow Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Newbie here! Having used torrent for over a week now and I find downloading to be very slow - I persevered. A message has now come up, "Can't open .Torrent file in C:.........................".I have tried uninstalling torrent and reinstalling but the message is still there. Any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 What are the settings in your preferences - directories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearrow Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Do you mean - have I checked all the boxes? well yes I have but I have had no trouble until now. I downloaded only about 2GB, it is in the folder selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 That's why. You shouldn't have checked the .torrent storage option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearrow Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Ok! Thanks - I have now unchecked everything, I unistalled and then reinstalled, so now my downloads will go no where.I think I need to start from scratch as I appear to be going around in circles, but how do I do that? Do I delete the folder that contained the files and make a clean sweep or is there another suggestion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 When you set a torrent storage folder, did you delete the .torrent files from that folder at any point along the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearrow Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 No! But I did cut and paste some files into another folder, which is fine. So that means that the original storage folder is still there, but does not have so much in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 It's not fine to move the .torrent files out of the original storage folder because uTorrent doesn't know where you moved them to.Move them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearrow Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 How will moving them back correct the problem I have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Yes, although it may take another restart of uTorrent for it to take effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluearrow Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Tried most things now, even tried renaming the folder, but still no joy.I am not bothered with what I have downloaded it is not important. I am prepared to lose everything but what happens is this:When I unistall uTorrent via control panel> Add and remove, and then reinstall it, the same message appears, "Can't open uTorrent file".I have scanned putor for everything, adware, trojan's, spyware, etc, etc. So how do I completely restart from the begining? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 http://utorrent.com/faq/installation#faq7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismahill Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 if u use windows,try going to %appdata% \Utorrent folder, right click a Utorrent file and open with Utorrent.if that works,something might be off track with u'r settings.either u re-set u'r preferences or delete the setting .dat file as it is posed at DreadWingKnight given link.other than that what happens, is that Utorrent is configured for a specific folder to atain the files from, when u move the files from that folder to another one (or delete them), Utorrent can't load them to the queue and so gives u a warning.here what u can do, is either moving the files back to the original folder or else, reconfigure Utorrent to look for them in a different one.just take this note,if the files name has been changed, the Utorrent won't be able to reconize it either.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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