All personal files showing in downloaded movie

[Teach1]

I need help understanding this. I was attempting to download 2 older movies simultaneously. Knowing that it would take a long time, I went out to run some errands. When I got back the movies were both showing 100.0% but with an error - (some files missing). I clicked on the top file and what popped up alarmed me. All of my private files in "Documents" (Windows 7) were displayed. Does this mean that these files were being sent out to the swarm indiscriminately? If so this is definitely a serious issue. Could someone shed some light on this for me. I would appreciate the input.

[moogly]

µTorrent is not like Kazaa.

You share only the files relative to the active torrent jobs loaded in the µT window, that's all.

Nobody can access to the rest of the directory or partition.

[Nefarious]

When the directory is not in the place you set the download, utorrent automatically takes you to the documents folder and that's it. utorrent probably couldn't read/find the directory where you were downloading to and did just that

[Teach1]

So it's relatively safe then?

[Nefarious]

Yes, it is not sharing your files.

[DreadWingKnight]

BitTorrent clients don't operate on a shared folder mechanism like kazaa or emule do.