I'm getting a utorrent error?

Question

'cannot access file as it is being used by another process.' constantly comes up . i have to restart the downloads every 5 mins. I downloaded one file just fine, is it because there are two now?

How do i fix this, it's extremely annoying...

I use vista and i don't have google desktop or roxio or whatever...

thanks!

Answer 1

That is usually caused by indexing programs like google desktop or roxio, and I think Vista has some kind of indexing also.  there are also other reasons listed at the uTorrent FAQ:

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_get_Er...

You could download and install the free "Unlocker".  After installing it, right-click on your uTorrent download save folder and select Unlocker.  It will show what process is tying up the folder.

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Answer 2

It'll state that if you've tried opening the torrent before it's fully downloaded, if you tried to run it, or something like that.  If you have anti-virus software, it may be due to that as some anti-virus software will read torrents as bad.  Also, if you try to download the same torrent twice, and use the same folder, that can do it as well.  Otherwise, if none of those are the case, then I couldn't tell you as I've never had a problem otherwise.