bigutorrentissue Posted November 7, 2011 Report Posted November 7, 2011 I recently had my computer repaired and just recently installed a fresh copy of both Vista Home Premium SP2 and uTorrent 3. I have completed torrents set to move to a folder within the documents folder on my external 2 TB HD. For one reason or another the downloaded files seem to disappear, and are absent from the designated downloads folder, and the only way to access them is to open utorrent, reload the .torrent file and select it from the file list in uTorrent. I've tried cutting and pasting when I click "open containing folder" but it says I "don't have permission to access the folder" or something to that effect. This is extremely puzzling to me as I have a fresh untampered, fully updated version Vista Home Premium and the newest uTorrent, and this feature I'm having a problem with always worked fine before. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Extremely frustrating as I just had a power supply and my previous HD fried both replaced and I'm trying to get things working normally again.*Edit: I should also note that my security software is ZoneAlarm Extreme 2012, not sure if that would cause any issues.
bigutorrentissue Posted November 7, 2011 Author Report Posted November 7, 2011 Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? This always just seemed to automatically work fine in the past and now I'm all messed up as to what to do about this, I'm ready to get some torrents and I can't find any of them! Any ideas at all?
DreadWingKnight Posted November 7, 2011 Report Posted November 7, 2011 Have you set your security properties on both folders to make sure that your user account has full control?Are you running uTorrent as a normal user or using the "Run as administrator" function?
bigutorrentissue Posted November 7, 2011 Author Report Posted November 7, 2011 Both the download folder and the "move to after complete" folder are set to full control. Somewhere on my computer, the files from the torrents are there, because when I reload the .torrent file into uTorrent 3 it's simply checks them and begins seeding. They aren't, however, in the complete folder, and when I click a file in uTorrent's file browser I get this message that reads, with a red x beside it:"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them the item."I am completely at a loss as to why this is happening, I even started uTorrent as administrator (I'm the only one who uses the computer regularly anyhow though) and both the download and move-to-when-complete folders are set for full control, and I even thought to set my entire external HD to full control to see if it would help earlier yesterday, still same result.Someone please have an answer! I've been torrentless for three months thanks to a surge that fried my internal HD and old Power Supply, it's driving me insane!Not totally insane however, thanks for trying to help DreadWingKnight btw.
DreadWingKnight Posted November 7, 2011 Report Posted November 7, 2011 And when you right-click the file and open containing folder on it?And what is the "Save As" path from the info tab?
bigutorrentissue Posted November 7, 2011 Author Report Posted November 7, 2011 Apparently the strangeness rabbit hole here goes even further, I opened the torrent file for the FLAC album I downloaded from the downloads box on my Firefox 7, and this opens an instance of uTorrent with both the torrents I've downloaded since I installed uTorrent on the install of Vista. After a few seconds a folder appears with the files I downloaded, right where they should be, as it reads the Save As area under info:Save As: J:/Documents/Downloads/Megadeth - TH1RT3EN [FLAC]For some reason, after I close this window that opens, the files are no longer in there as they normally should stay after downloaded.*Edit also above I was referring to the "right click-open containing folder" action, it shows that message box with a red x when I do this.
DreadWingKnight Posted November 7, 2011 Report Posted November 7, 2011 At this point, you either have severe permissions issues or filesystem damage.I'm not sure which, but taking ownership of your downloads folders with your user account and then applying your full control permissions all the way down may help.
bigutorrentissue Posted November 7, 2011 Author Report Posted November 7, 2011 Thanks for attempting to help, if worse comes to worse it wouldn't take me long to simply reinstall Vista and see what happens then, 10 minutes tops since I'm running a six core luckily. I'll do some googling first though.
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