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Bogus Out Of Disk Space Message Out of space for 3.36Mb item with 84Gb free on drive

#1 User is offline   RockinDave 

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Posted 22 August 2015 - 01:33 AM

I am an old but not intensive user and rarely on this forum. I'm using v0.50a, Windows 7 SP1, HP G-60 laptop.
The item is marked 100% completed of 3.36Mb with the black and yellow stripes and the message "Insufficient Space". The taskbar icon shows a blood-red progress bar a little more than halfway across. The drive has 84Gb free. There are no files in the incoming folder. I don't recall setting any kind of "maximum space to use" setting and I can't find one now. The part.met and the part.met.bak files in the temp folder are each 525 bytes. I don't know what to do, and I have no idea what could be going on. I do notice that completed downloads have been few and far between lately.

This post has been edited by RockinDave: 22 August 2015 - 11:45 PM

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Posted 22 August 2015 - 07:16 PM

There might be a chance of file system having errors.
Try to check it and fix if necessary.
If all is fine then the download might be resumed.
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Posted 22 August 2015 - 09:44 PM

That message can be misleading - it is always that message, for any problem keeping the file from being moved/created to/in incoming folder.

- not enough diskspace
- file in use (preview for example)
- permissions problem : emule can not write into incoming folder*
- filename contains illegal-for-that-filesystem characters

there was more, I think, but can't remember now.

*- where do you have it ? by any chance somewhere under c:\program data or c:\programs (x86) or such ?

This post has been edited by coluche: 22 August 2015 - 09:47 PM

It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins and he's a Wild Man, so bug off!
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#4 User is offline   RockinDave 

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Posted 22 August 2015 - 11:09 PM

View Postcoluche, on 22 August 2015 - 05:44 PM, said:

That message can be misleading - it is always that message, for any problem keeping the file from being moved/created to/in incoming folder.

- not enough diskspace
- file in use (preview for example)
- permissions problem : emule can not write into incoming folder*
- filename contains illegal-for-that-filesystem characters

there was more, I think, but can't remember now.

*- where do you have it ? by any chance somewhere under c:\program data or c:\programs (x86) or such ?

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Posted 22 August 2015 - 11:45 PM

coluche and Fox88, thank you for your responses.
Fox 88, I ran the System File Checker, which found no issues.
coluche, taking your points in order:
1) 84 Gb free on the drive.
2) If the file is in use, that would be news to me. I never preview or open anything without using two on-demand scanners first.
3)eMule has been writing to that same folder for a couple of years. The path is C:/users/dave/downloads/emule/temp & incoming.
4)There are no illegal, exotic, or unusual characters in the file name, just the title.
The title is unusually long, longest I remember ever seeing. I never tried to follow it out to the end until just now but ran out of room to expand the file name after about 220 characters, with no end in sight. Whoever put it up went way overboard. I guess that's the reason for the error, but I don't have an earthly what to do. Could it be edited right in eMule or in another way? I'm not emotionally invested in the file, so if there's no simple solution I'll just cancel it.

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Posted 23 August 2015 - 10:16 AM

View PostRockinDave, on 23 August 2015 - 02:45 AM, said:

the file name after about 220 characters

Windows has the same limit for file name and for the whole path length, which is close to 256 characters.
You might need to give a shorter name to the file using Details... dialog in Transfers tab; or Rename in Shared Files tab - whichever works in your case.

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Posted 23 August 2015 - 04:35 PM

Ah, yes, that appalling 256-character pathname limit - a shame really that ntfs still has that with the win-7-version.

View PostRockinDave, on 23 August 2015 - 01:45 AM, said:

so if there's no simple solution I'll just cancel it.


There is always the other simple solution : copy the according ***.part file to where you want it, rename it to what-it-really-is, then cancel the download in eMule, and that is that.
Works fine in most cases, but iirc.* will most likely end up with a (fully-working) file that will have a different eMule-hash, in case you want to keep it shared. :(

* long time since this last happened to me. :flowers:

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This post has been edited by coluche: 23 August 2015 - 04:41 PM

It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins and he's a Wild Man, so bug off!
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Posted 23 August 2015 - 04:51 PM

View Postcoluche, on 23 August 2015 - 07:35 PM, said:

Works fine in most cases, but iirc.* will most likely end up with a (fully-working) file that will have a different eMule-hash

The hash must be the same if the file has all its bytes in place.

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Posted 23 August 2015 - 08:51 PM

Fox 88, I got to the file in the Shared Files tab. I was unable to cut just the parts I didn't want in the name, but since the filename was all useful info, I copied it and pasted into a txt file, then just deleted most of the rest. I immediately got the green bar, went to the downloads folder (and of course scanned the file) and pasted in most of the overlong name into the file's details box.
Thank you again, and you, coluche, for your advice. I not only got what I wanted but learned something in the process.

This post has been edited by RockinDave: 23 August 2015 - 08:53 PM

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