Downloading part of torrent which is larger than my harddrive

[80GB]

Hello. Apologies if this has been answered.

I set up a machine with nothing but Windows and uTorrent installed that I leave running at all times. The HDD in it at the moment is only 80GB. The torrent I am downloading, in segments, is 140GB. Even though I only have about 40GB worth of files set to be downloaded, it is taking up 71GB on the HDD. The other 100GB of files are set to 'skip'. The portions of those 'skip' files which have been downloaded because they are bundled with the files I want are no where near 31GB. I have compact allocation set to 'true'.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[80GB]

Anyone? The torrent has now stopped downloading because the drive is full. I am resorting to transferring the partially completed torrent to another machine with plenty of storage space in order to complete this torrent. Is there really no way to download only some files from a large torrent without having uTorrent allocate much more HDD space than is required for those selected files?

[DreadWingKnight]

Did you not hear of preallocation and sparse files?

[Firon]

When you add a torrent, select the files before you hit OK on the add torrent dialog. Then, they will not be written to disk and you will not consume the extra space.

Once the file has been allocated, uT will not delete anything, even if you skip the file.

[80GB]

For the past while I had been using the "Add torrent from URL" function in uTorrent to start new files. When doing this, it did not give me the opportunity to select only certain files. Instead, it would add the whole torrent, and then I would set undesired files to 'skip'. That resulted in the problem I described in my posts above.

However, If I download the torrent, then open it in uTorrent, I get the functionality as you described Firon: the opportunity to select only certain files before beginning the download. Seems to be working so far. Hopefully this clears it up for anyone else who may have this problem. Thanks.