Torrent Error

[Doggsy]

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. WTF does that mean?

It was all good, I was downloading constantly and life was rosy. Then i tried to download slumdog millionaire and it gave me the above message. i tried different torrents from diffferent sites but still it wouldnt download. No big deal as the missus is on hols in thailand and can bring it back.

Tonight i have started 5 different torrents of 5 different things and 4 of them have given me the same error message. Anybody had it before? have i downloaded something bad and it is going to make my computer blow up after emailing my porn to my parents and wife? how can i fix it? please...

[ChiangMai noon]

your computer is a bout to go bang.

serves you right for stealing stuff you should be paying for.


honestly though, have no idea.
have you considered removing utorrent and re-installing?

worth a try and will only take a few minutes.

[melvbot]

This is from the uTorrent FAQ

1.4 I get "Error: Access Denied" / "Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" and µTorrent halts the torrent! (Google/MSN Desktop, possibly some anti-virus software, Explorer's thumbnail view, may not be any of the above)

Error: Access Denied can be caused by numerous things. The most common causes seem to be Google and MSN Desktop. A possible fix is turn off the indexing feature, or to uninstall them. Excluding the download folders from indexing should work.
Another fix is to turn off diskio.flush_files, but you will lose the benefit of flush files (diskio.flush_files makes µTorrent close file handles every minute. This helps reduce the effect of Windows managing the system cache badly). Since flush files closes the handle every minute, Google/MSN Desktop try to open the file every minute, and this prevents µTorrent from writing.
The best solution is to uninstall Google/MSN Desktop.
WinZIP Quickfind has the same effect as Google/MSN Desktop. It must be disabled.
Roxio Media Manager and Nero Scout both do the same. They are installed by default when installing Roxio's and Nero's burning software, respectively. They must be disabled, or uninstalled.
It is possible that an anti-virus' real-time scanner may cause this, but there is no known AV that causes this error. If it does, the same fixes for Google/MSN Desktop apply (exclude the folder(s), uninstall the AV/disable the real-time scanner, or turn off flush files).
AVG7 may cause this, it seems to think that some files are a JPEG exploit (a false positive), and it attempts to quarantine them.
A third possibility is that you are viewing the folder while it's downloading, and Explorer is set to thumbnail mode. If this is the case, Explorer would try to access these files while viewing the folder in Thumbnail mode, and lock out µTorrent from writing. The solution is to not view the folder until the download is finished, don't use Thumbnail mode, or turn off flush files.
It's also possible that Explorer is trying to read the media files (MP3, AVI and so on) in the folder to make thumbnails, show you information about them, or preview them. You can unregister the media indexer (Start -> Run -> regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll ), and/or unregister the image indexer (Start -> Run -> regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll ) as an alternative for either case, not view the folder, or turn off flush files.
A fourth possibility is that you set the files to read-only, which would prevent µTorrent from writing. This only affects downloading; µTorrent can seed files that are set to read-only. However, if the error appears when trying to seed, it may mean that the original files are damaged and are failing the hash check.


µTorrent - The lightweight and efficient BitTorrent client - FAQ

[Doggsy]

^ the roxio thing is a definate maybe as i only installed that a week or so ago. However the last thing i installed was something called download helper as a firefox extension to rip youtube videos. I have uninstalled that first as it is quicker than uninstalling roxio.

as i was typing it still came up with the error. i will try roxio now.

[Doggsy]

looks like it was roxio. I have just uninstalled roxio and I am now 20% downloaded of slumdog. This is about 15% further than i normally get before i get the error. thanks melvbot and CMN for your replies.

CMN - i dont steal it without paying. I sent IPtorrents $15 the other month which means I can surely download as much as i want now

[ChiangMai noon]

CMN - i dont steal it without paying.

i do.