insufficient disc space bollx

[Debaser]

every other film I download now doesn’t turn green anymore, instead it turns yellow and black striped, with a insufficient disc space message.

I have 36GB left, and other movies do complete.

Does anyone know how to stop eMule from ruining my downloads?

Thanks

[FLL]

I assume this is when the download is complete and it's finished hashing the completed file?

eMule gives that message any time it can't move and rename the .part file to the correct name in the incoming folder. So it's not necessarily disk space. It could be that there are characters in the filename which aren't legal under Windows. (If so, rename them in eMule before they complete.) It could be the file is locked somehow (maybe by previewing it or by antivirus scanning it?) It could be Windows file rights. It could be bad directory path settings in eMule.

In cases like that the file isn't gone, the appropriate xxx.part file can be copied and renamed.

[emuler]

Do you have the destination folder on a different drive/partition? Check for free disk space on that too.

[Debaser]

Destination drive is the same as it ever was, so no problems there.
No funny characters in the file names im downloading.

What do I do, just rename the .part thingy to the file name and add a file extention, then it will play?

[billanben]

No work out why you are getting the error. If you restart e-mule do you get same error with same .part files ? If you reboot machine, restart e-mule what happens then ? What does disk manager say about space - any errors in your event logs ? Remember that emule reserves space at a rate of whatever the full download would be, for each incomplete download. If you have the incoming and temp directories on same drive, and you have lots of downloads, that is almost certainly your problem mate - I get this all the time. Solution is to burn or move to another drive what you have in your incoming.

If none of this helps, turn on emule debugging (in options), restart emule and post what log say (may want to pm rather than post here).

[FLL]

Destination drive is the same as it ever was, so no problems there.
No funny characters in the file names im downloading.

What do I do, just rename the .part thingy to the file name and add a file extention, then it will play?

Yes, if it lets you... you might need to stop eMule if eMule still has the file locked. Might also give you an idea what the problem is -- try the same move that eMule does to the Incoming folder, and see if it fails.

If that doesn't work, you could also just copy the .part file rather than renaming it.

Wouldn't hurt to check the disk (under drive properties Tools) if you haven't recently, in case there is some drive corruption.

Another idea: I have had issues in the past (though not with eMule) if the filename is very long and it's moving to a deep subdirectory such that the path+filename is too long, >128 characters I think.

Remember that emule reserves space at a rate of whatever the full download would be, for each incomplete download.

That's an option in the config (one I use also), so it might not always be true. But even so, if the full amount is reserved that will show up as used filespace, so checking the free space on the drive would show none left.

[Debaser]

Thanks for your help guys.

I hate it when things get technical.

I have more disc space than ever before, and I have not tampered with eMule since it was installed a few years ago, so that is why it strange that now I get this problem with every other movie; that’s one in two movies that wont complete.

I have deleted the offending file out of frustration and will try yet again, because it should bloody download.

I only have 6 movies on download, and eMule has required much less than that in the past, and without any problems.

I don’t have a degree in math, but ill try and look for errors in the log, I take it I can find the log in the statistics section of eMule.

I’m going for a pint

[Debaser]

Homecoming (1996) has failed yet again to complete, meanwhile 3 other movies did complete today.
So obviously the problem lies with the film.
The title has 59 characters in it, perhaps I should reduce them to just the movie title.

[FLL]

Definitely try it, then resume the download and it will try again to move the file. If it works, that was the problem. If not, it wasn't, and you can try something else to troublshoot the problem.

[Debaser]

bugger, I just deleted it again.
Ok, ill try one more time.