'Invalid argument'........ 'internal error 22'

[rosalee]

Could somebody take a moment and tell me what this error means. Every peep and even the seed are firewalled......... is this why the error :hmm:

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/downloadtor.php?attachmentid=15625


Thanks.

[U2Lynne]

You mean this Bob Marley show:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24169

I see three seeders (one is firewalled) and one leecher (who is firewalled). I'm not sure that that is the show you meant. (next time, just post a link to the thread, not the torrent file).

And where are you seeing this error? In your bittorrent client? Which bittorrent client?

[rosalee]

Thank you for replying. Sorry for linking incorrectly, and my bad eyesight.

I am seeing the error in my bt client which is BitTornado. I have gotten around this problem in the past by redirecting the download to a different hdd; no idea why that seem to solve the problem, but not this time. I was just wondering. I have the silver of this particular show, but would like to have the data files is all. Thanks.

[rosalee]

Thank you for replying. Sorry for linking incorrectly, and my bad eyesight.

I am seeing the error in my bt client which is BitTornado. I have gotten around this problem in the past by redirecting the download to a different hdd; no idea why that seem to solve the problem, but not this time. I was just wondering. I have the silver of this particular show, but would like to have the data files is all. Thanks.

More info on error 22: 'couldn't allocate directory'. If that is of help. I don't know what that means? And there are 3seeds waiting for me.... hopefully :lol: <-just humour. Thanks for your time.

[U2Lynne]

Here is a thread about the same thing and the same torrent. (http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24258) It sounds like he did a couple of things (the colon in the torrent name and the comma in a file name) that caused problems. I would try downloading the show with uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). Many users are very happy with that client.

[rosalee]

Here is a thread about the same thing and the same torrent. (http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24258) It sounds like he did a couple of things (the colon in the torrent name and the comma in a file name) that caused problems. I would try downloading the show with uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). Many users are very happy with that client.

Alright. Thank you.

[rosalee]

Thanks for the assistance. I am onboard now :wave:

Interesting bt client, utorrent. I have read about it, but well, i just thought i'd stick with the one i knew. Will experiment with it; it is working for me. Thanks :thumbsup

[paddington]

uTorrent is great... BitTornado used to be king, but they really screwed the pooch / jumped the shark, etc during the last year or so... all the new releases are crap and are buggy. .14 should be the newest you use, if you use it at all anymore.

[jcrab66]

I thought this was about the zeppelin thread :lol

[karmakat]

I thought this was about the zeppelin thread :lol

me too.

[Black Dog]

I get the same error message when I try to save this BC DVD cover! :wtf:

[U2Lynne]

I get the same error message when I try to save this BC DVD cover! :wtf:
Your problem is easily resolved also... :loveff:

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/8905/mozillafirefoximage1uu.png (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/)

[rosalee]

Oh, I like the emoticon^ :clap: I cannot remember when I used IE last :lol How do I get me one of those?

I am using Utorrent exclusively now...... seems like a fine bt client. One question: how do you 'announce' to your fellow peeps? That is, sometimes you are still seeding but you fall off(sort of speak) the counter as far as getting credit(on your share ratio). In btTorn, I use to just manually announce myself(just once;no hammering) and walla, I was back on the list. Seems I "fall off" over at Dime more than anywhere else. Kinda sucks to be seeding for a long time and not see your ratio improve on the site when you finally close the torrent. I do not seem to have the problem here since my ratio dropped alarmingly, and then I just seeded and seeded and it came back up to polite.

As always, thanks :)

[U2Lynne]

rosalee, are you talking about how do you 'stop' correctly so that your ratio gets updated correctly? You can just click on the red stop button (the square one, not the X) and it should then announce to the tracker that you are done and the tracker should grab your latest stats. If you are seeing problems on DIME, it could be that they only update the stats every so often. If you want to force the tracker to update, you can also right-click on the torrent and go to Update Tracker.

Oh, and that little smilie can be obtained by typing : loveff : without the space before/after the colons. :loveff:

[rosalee]

Thank you for that info, AND the emoticon...... very cool :wave:

No, not stopping, all set with that. Just that i noticed that 'sometimes' when i check the 'peers' list and look at seeders expecting to see myself listed, i am not there. As soon as i hit, 'manual announce' button (on btTorn.... haven't used uTor over there yet), bingo, i am back on the list of seeders. So i was wondering whether all that time i was not showing up(they say the tracker announces every 45min), i was seeding altruistically in the purist sense(no credit :lol ). Now that i am switching over to the uTor client, i just want to be sure i know how to 'manually' announce myself to the tracker and not lose those valuable little bits of credit. Seems so hard to get one's esr up at DIME(without uploading a show). I will do that eventually. In the meantime, i do manipulate my bandwith, try not to spread it too thin, etc. Fortunately, i have the fatest pipe i could get from my isp without going T1....... ouch$ Well, i think i'm just looking for easy info here, without reading the uTor 'how to' :hmm: Apologize. Thanks all the same tho...... i will go read.

[starman714]

Thank you for that info, AND the emoticon...... very cool :wave:

No, not stopping, all set with that. Just that i noticed that 'sometimes' when i check the 'peers' list and look at seeders expecting to see myself listed, i am not there. As soon as i hit, 'manual announce' button (on btTorn.... haven't used uTor over there yet), bingo, i am back on the list of seeders. So i was wondering whether all that time i was not showing up(they say the tracker announces every 45min), i was seeding altruistically in the purist sense(no credit :lol ). Now that i am switching over to the uTor client, i just want to be sure i know how to 'manually' announce myself to the tracker and not lose those valuable little bits of credit. Seems so hard to get one's esr up at DIME(without uploading a show). I will do that eventually. In the meantime, i do manipulate my bandwith, try not to spread it too thin, etc. Fortunately, i have the fatest pipe i could get from my isp without going T1....... ouch$ Well, i think i'm just looking for easy info here, without reading the uTor 'how to' :hmm: Apologize. Thanks all the same tho...... i will go read.

hi rosalee,

right click on the torrent name you want to announce then in the drop down box you'll see "update tracker" at/near the bottom of the list...click that and it announces you to the tracker as well as updating your scrape....

also, as long as you don't disconnect you should get credit for all of your uploading as long as the tracker is working....sometimes you won't appear in the list because the actual web-page is not updating as fast as the tracker...just make sure you've announced and gotten updated before you stop a torrent...

:wave:

[rosalee]

Hi 'Starman', hope you are doing well?!

Thanks for the info. I was being a bit lazy i think looking for eazy info without doing my homework first. But thanks for making life easier!!

When my windoze crashed(hour ago) and all my torrents shut down, i did not close all my open torrents properly, obviously. Anyway, to my pleasant suprise, when i started a *new* torrent in uTor, all of them came back up running smoothly in the uTor window. I am liking this 'new' bt client, uTor. Nice and tidey :thumbsup Still have a couple running as seeds in BtTorn, but as soon as i make good mileage out of those, that's it....... time to uninstall. Was nice while it lasted but i have found a new client :lol

Well, that is enuff public discourse ;) I will drop you a pm :wave:

[Black Dog]

Your problem is easily resolved also... :loveff:

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/8905/mozillafirefoximage1uu.png (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/)

I told the Doc "It hurts when I do this".....

Doc sez..."Well then, don't do that! :lol

Thanks Lynne :D