Delayed folder creation

[BrownWallpaper]

Reinstalled windows xp, so i had to reinstall utorrent too, now i'm on 2.0.4.

This is a pretty weird glitch. Is it a glitch?

I load a .torrent file, tell it to direct the files to E:\ downloads. It worked for a couple files, but now all of a sudden every time i try that the directory that I told utorrent to create for the download doesn't exist at all or gets created some time after the download progresses, usually delayed long enough to be somewhat inconvenient. I click on the file in the client and tell it to open the directory that contains the file and it always says that directory doesn't exist.

How do i fix that? Is there a way to change this?

[DreadWingKnight]

If you want the files and folders created instantly, enable preallocation.

With that off, uTorrent waits for the first piece completed to create the files and folders.