I can’t imagine why, but people are actually visiting here looking for technical help with BitTorrent. I turned up this little factoid while analyzing Google search terms that brought people to my site. Since I’m such a nice guy, I’m going to give you some help.
First off, do not download illegal files. It’s illegal. And the MPAA kills a kitten everytime you do. Anyway…
Here’s a nice list of common BitTorrent IO Error messages and the common solutions. (These may not apply to clients other than the original BitTorrent client.)
Hm, those are the common ones. There are all sorts of other errors and warnings you might receive with BitTorrent, but they don’t say IO Error in them, so I don’t care about them. Try copying and pasting the error message into Google. You’ll be amazed at what you find.
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jesus_
Apr 13, 2005
I haven’t had any people asking me about religion yet. Imagine, I’d have to explain the bible :o
IGnatius T Foobar
Apr 13, 2005
Can you show me how to Internet with my CD-RAM? thx
jesus_
Apr 13, 2005
“how to Internet”
Hmmm. Most interesting.
Duncan
Apr 19, 2005
[Errno 28] No space left on device when downloading files over 4 gig in size may be because you are using fat32 instead of NTFS. fat32 does not support large files.
jdouge
May 15, 2005
I have started getting Error 9 – bad file descriptors – on a regular basis. I am using Win98 but the files are siginificantly smaller than 1GB, let alone 4GB. I’ve had luck in the past by re-downloading the .torrent file and linking it to my partial download, but now that’s not working either.
Any other reasons why I might be getting this error message? And/or what I could do about it?
thanks
doug
Michael Hampton
May 15, 2005
jdouge, it could be filesystem corruption. Try running scandisk then defrag and see if things clear up.
jdouge
May 16, 2005
Bravo! Success on the first try. Guess I better scandisk more than once every two or three months :)
Thanks a million!
doug
nick
Jun 24, 2005
thanks that worked! No more error 13!
TF
Jul 20, 2005
Thanks for explaning Error 13! Now I can finally finish downloading my filipino tranny scat pornography.
Bobby
Aug 03, 2005
Running Scandisk for ” [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor ” fixed it up great, and I didn’t have to upgrade my operating system like it says here (I have Windows ME).
Thanks a million.
conFUSEd
Sep 10, 2005
i need help finding a new bittorent a better 1 any suggestions please help!!!
Michael Hampton
Sep 10, 2005
Funny, I still use the original BitTorrent client. I haven’t really seen any reason to switch to another one.
Nick
Oct 10, 2005
hi, i have read your thread on the IO error 13, it happens everytime i try to download a torrent, normally about 1/4 of the way through. I checked my processes as you describes and did find a btdownloadgui that i closed but it still did not work.
Any other ideas please as i am totally stuck and cant download anymore, please help
Michael Hampton
Oct 10, 2005
Nick, try upgrading to the latest BitTorrent client, and restarting the computer. That’s about all I can think of right now.
Nick
Oct 13, 2005
I have done this many times and it keeps happening, what is going on???? Does bit tornado leave any files in the registry or secret files that are making this happen and how do i get rid of them, any help would be much appreciated as i cant download anything now :(
Myotis
Oct 23, 2005
Hello, I have a doubt: I have been getting the mistake of error 9 , and i may think it is because of filesystem corruption. I have run scandisk but the it says “scandisk has re-iniciate 10 times because somre programs are writting on C unit”.
I close all programs and start scandisk again. However, i get the same message again. Someone knows how to solve this?
Michael Hampton
Oct 24, 2005
Myotis, before you run scandisk, use Ctrl+Alt+Del and close all programs except Explorer and Systray. Then run scandisk. Once it’s complete, restart your computer.
CrazyDiamond
Nov 09, 2005
While downloading a 2.4 GB torrent I get this error “Error: Data Missing C\….\Eric Clapton – Delaney And Bonnie And Friends(With Eric Capton) – 02 – Poor Elijah – Tribute To Johnson Medley Poor Elijah Tribute.mp3″. Though I find the file in the specified location on my HDD, I see it cannot be renamed or deleted due to its abnormally large filename (130 charcters) which is possibly causing all the trouble. I have selected “do not download” for the whole folder, but it did not help. I am stuck after 1.2 GB (previously got stuck with the same torrent at 186 and 533 MB) and is in a total fix. Please help if you can
Michael Hampton
Nov 09, 2005
CrazyDiamond, you didn’t say whether you were using Windows 95 (or 98 or ME) or Windows NT (or 2000 or XP). I’m going to guess it’s Win9x, though.
Even though FAT32 and NTFS both support filenames up to 255 characters in length, Windows will only support up to 260 characters in the entire path on FAT32. (The same for FAT16.) NTFS supports pathnames up to 32767 characters, and it’s unlikely you’ll ever see that.
If this seems to describe your situation, try downloading to an NTFS filesystem instead. If you can’t, then try downloading directly to the root of your C: drive, to keep the final pathname as short as possible. If all else fails, boot up Linux and download it with Linux.
And if you aren’t using the official BitTorrent client, it’s possible none of this will apply to you.
Greg
Nov 21, 2005
Thakns for the help, but i’m still going to download illegal files because i’m cool like that.
Bob
Dec 05, 2005
Hey I am getitng Error 13 and i can’t Dl this file, or any others for that matter. I am not sure why ; /
mattay
Dec 07, 2005
haha, i was looking for bittorrent help, but i had to check out this site. ‘homeland stupidity’ thats rich!
so lemme see, homeland security is basically a bunch of toothless hicks with rifles standing at the borders shooting at mexicans and canadians (and birds, lots of birds…mice too…and the majestic moose)?
soo, homeland stupidity would be a group of men in armane suits with great teeth huddled in kansas somewhere all eating icecream?? (i like icecream) :D
is it moose or mooses (mooses…mooses…mooses) heh, thats a funny word; mooses…but no, i’m told its moose (moose…moose…moose) :P
Michael Hampton
Dec 07, 2005
Mattay, I hope you found the BitTorrent help you were looking for. :) As for homeland security, (or homeland stupidity) there’s plenty of it on this site; feel free to look around.
Linkoln
Jan 20, 2006
i’m a senior bittorent user, luckily i’m not in the US, so prosecute me all u want u capitalistic pigs. anyway… i found to get the IO error when i use DAEMON tools with another program that makes a game think that it’s an original CD. so the hardisk thinks the emulated drive is real and retracts the double size from the hardisk, so anyway, if any of u have encountered the IO error while having a lot more space on ur hardisk, know that it cud be caused by ur emulation software.
David Palmer
Feb 03, 2006
[Errno 13] Permission denied – just started getting this error after months of trouble free downloading, I’ve checked Processes and nothing running but still I get the error
Dave
Feb 16, 2006
Hi, this one’s on [Errno 28]. I have plenty of room left on my drive (+30GB), FAT32 does support large files, so I was hoping for an idea on how to fix the problem. Cheers.
Michael Hampton
Feb 16, 2006
Dave, FAT32 filesystems do not support files larger than 4GB. If you’re trying to download something that contains a larger file, you must use NTFS.
yash
Feb 23, 2006
Hi im havin a 80 GB(slave)hard drive and wants to dl 77GB file but file is too big and the maximum size hard drive can store is around 74 is there anyway i can make that torrent file 2 files or any idea?
Michael Hampton
Feb 23, 2006
Yash, the only thing you can really do in that situation is buy a larger hard drive, or you can have the creator of the torrent split it into two torrents.
zak
Feb 23, 2006
iv been having this same problem with bit tornado to! hmmm ill try the scandisk
mr. x
Mar 17, 2006
hi there… i actually arrived here by copy-pasting the error message i got in google and got referred to this site
[Errno 13] Permission denied
the explanation worked, so thanks!
Olafur Gislason
Sep 23, 2006
I get “errno=28″ sending a short message to Cuba. I have plenty of space and I can on my drives and I can send the same message to other computers.
The problem is reported from
“qmail-send program at mta1.correodecuba.cu.”
Any explanation?
Michael Hampton
Sep 23, 2006
You are certainly asking the wrong person, in the wrong place.
Bitrat
Jan 13, 2007
This is odd……….I’m getting the dreaded “file not found” error also partway through a dl as described by CrazyDiamond above….it seems like I can reinitiate the torrent and it will continue dl’ing for a few minutes – probably be able do dl most if not all in this way, but what a pain in the a**!
Using bittorrent, win xp, etc, etc…..probably a long filename problem, but seems funny that it’s intermittent….perhaps the torrent is “filling around” the problem file?? Strange…..
gring
Feb 07, 2007
thanks for help. it works now.
greetings from Germany
dave
Feb 27, 2007
the smallest, and because of that the most efficient and fast bt client is for me utorrent, its about 150kb binary file, saves only a settings file to user directory (yes, windows) and uses about 6megs ram in a typical situation. it has all the features like bitcomet or azureus, but its a lot smaller and straightforward. its of course freeware, like most clients (try to sell a btclient, haha)
i recomend it, especially if you dont have the latest mashine, it does not slow down the system like a huge java-app like azureus does (or so i heard)
dave with no caps D
Feb 27, 2007
SCANDISK ISSUE:
windows has by default a virtual memory with variable size. so if you run scandisk, and you are scanning the drive with the swap-file (the virtual memory) on it -c: by default- then windows might change the size of it while you scan, because windows is evil, and scandisk notices that “the content of drive soandso have changed”. to get around that, change the virtual memory setting to fixed, around double the size of your ram. then you can scandisk all you want, and bittorrent all you want.
good luck
loris
Jul 08, 2007
when you get the error that you ran out of space, after you delete files to free up space, do you have to redownload everything all over again?
Relm
Nov 22, 2007
That IO error: permission denied..I had that one.
Thanks so much for the help!
Ganesh
Dec 24, 2009
I/O Error: [Errno 28] No space left on the device I’m still getting this error even I’ve more space left on the drive. My drive is a FAT32 System?
When I start to redownload it says “Permission Denied” ….. I’m downloading 120 GB using bit tornado …?
I’ve scanned many times often…? but i get these…
Pls helppppp…..