Partial torrent file is undeleteable.

[Mr. Perfect]

I began a Bit Torrent download of the DS2 demo yesterday before getting fed up with it and canceling it. I now have a 110MB piece of the torrent on my desktop that I can not delete. I have restarted and canceled the torrent twice and tried deleteing it while in safe mode. Each time I try to delete it, it tells me that there has been a sharing violation and the file may still be in use, even though Bit Torrent is not running.

Any ideas on how to delete this sucker? At the rate it was downloading, I'd have to tie up my connection for 22 hours if I want to wait till it's done.

[Sergeant Thorne]

First, make sure your torrent program is completely done with it--that it's properly canceled and removed from any queue (I'm not entirely sure this would be a a problem anyway, but just in case).

Now bring up a Command Prompt (DOS console looking thing). Once you have this up, hit ctrl+alt+del, go to the Processes tab, and close explorer.exe. Now go to your Command Prompt and type

cd desktop *enter*
del [problem file name and extension here, without the brackets] *enter*

Now close that down, ctrl+alt+del again, from the menu select File -> New Task (Run...), browse to your Windows directory and select explorer.exe.

[BUBBALOU]

another reason not to save torrents to your desktop...

once you have that bugger eradicated, create a folder on your desktop "torrents" and save them in there from now on. That way you dont have to deal with this situation in the future.

I use Azureus if have one of those 0/0 filez, I will use the "Delete Torrent+Data" option.

[Mr. Perfect]

File part is gone.

I didn't realize the thing would download it straight to my desktop at the time. I figure'd it'd have the common curtesy to ask me where to save files, just like every other program. The download folder is changed already.

[Admiral LSD]

Azureus usually prompts you to choose a location to save the file to but BitTornado on the Linux box will simply dump it whatever directory you're in when you start it (if it's a multi-file torrent it'll create a dir, usually with the same name as the torrent). I've also noticed the "sharing violation" problem outside the desktop folder too, the way I normally deal with it is instead of Shift-Deleting (bypass the Recycle Bin) them, I do a "normal" delete and then simply empty the Recycle Bin.