bigspanner Posted July 29, 2009 Report Share Posted July 29, 2009 Recently, I was downloading a torrent and then decided to shutdown my machine. After rebooting, I got back to downloading the torrent but the above error shows up.Anyone knows why and how to overcome this?Do I need to delete the torrent and start all over again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Earlier explanations for the cause of "semaphore timeout period has expired":http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=387104#p387104http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=346695#p346695http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=361501#p361501http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=83642 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormwind81 Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 None of this links have helped anybody!If u look at them u will see, that no one had a solution for this Problem. Damn it!!!Anyway. Hi Forum. I have the same problem for about 1 Week.I havent changed anything on my System except installed the one or other Vista Update!Actually its frustrating that here are about 5 "Semaphore" Threads and in no one is something i can call a "smart solution"I have tried to uninstall the Vista updates and now i will see if it works.I figured out that it is not a Hardware issue even when the messages leads to this idea!There are too many with the same problem here. It has to do something with the trackers or with torrent itself!with regardsp.s.: im not good in english^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 I figured out that it is not a Hardware issue even when the messages leads to this idea!And what steps have you done to reach this conclusion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigspanner Posted July 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Thanks for commenting and trying to help. While I posted here, which is natural if one has a problem, I have also at the same time search the threads for a solution. I could not remember which thread, but it seems to be saying that it is a hardware problem. Taking that as true, what I did was just changed the destination folder and download the torrent all over again. It worked. Now, whether I do have a bad sector or not, frankly, I don't know. But who cares until I face the bad sector again, if it ever was bad in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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