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I have a huge torrent at hand. It should have just over 1.2 TB. It relies on a 2 "TB" HDD, that, in real size has 1.82 TB.

I say "should" because, in reality, it takes more space on the HDD than it should. Or at least it looks like it.

There's literally nothing else on the drive, not even hidden. There's no content in $RECYCLE.BIN or System Volume Information. There's just the one torrent's directory claiming it takes 1.2 TB, in Windows Explorer, that is.

I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro.

On Properties -> General tab, I see its:

  • Size: 1.21 TB
  • Size on disk: 930 GB

No surprise here.

It's a GPT/NTFS formatted drive. And it says, that there's only 130 GB of space left, which does not suffice for the download.

Surprise, surprise.

The torrent client is Vuze version 5.7.5.0. I tried to download it with my favorite Transmission 2.92, but it could not handle it and crashed without any helpful error message.

I share this experience so that others could learn from it.

Vlastimil Burián
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How this happened is a mystery to me, none-the-less, the solution was as follows:

  1. Go to Options: Menu -> Tools -> Options.

  2. Make sure you are in an Advanced mode: Mode -> Advanced.

  3. Go to Files and check this:

    Truncate existing files that are too large

  4. Click on save button. You can close the settings by now.

  5. Stop the torrent in question.

  6. Force-recheck the torrent.

  7. That fixed it in my case.

Vlastimil Burián
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