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Automatic File Transfer

I tried to use uTorrent to download a file but encountered a problem...
I was trying to have it save the files on a FAT32 partition (shared between Linux & Win XP) but kept getting a "access denied" error, so I tried to save it directly to the Windows partition. And that worked.

Now, I was wondering if there is a way to make it work with the FAT32 partition or if there is some way I can have it transfer the files on competition. There is an option to run a program on completion, is there a way I can run a simple DOS routine or something to transfer the files to a given directory on the other partition, while preserving all the folder hierarchy of the download?

Cheers,

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@echo off
REM sample.bat
copy %1*.* c:\Dw
Use notepad to write a batch file . It's basically a script which runs within a dos prompt. You must save it as name u choose.bat otherwise windows would never recognise it as a script. Make sure when u click save in notepad u select all files from the list. By default it's set as a txt file hence when u type in script.bat as a filename it will save it as script.bat.txt.

To invoke this script from utorrent u click on the button(...) then find your script.
for eg c:\script.bat %D c:\downloads\ . if that doesn't work then u need to ask at the utorrent forum.

As for as I know the only way u can get that error is when the administrator has locked the drive. Now FAT32 cant do this natively hence u need specialist software to lock the drive.

Last edited by schoi, November 20th, 2006 03:37 AM (Edited 2 times)

Was the file bigger than 4GB? FAT32 cant handle em. Instead of FAT32 you could use ext2/3 and install an fs driver for XP. XP will then be able to read/write to the ext2/3 partition and you can access without problems from Linux.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

This avoids going the NTFS way or having to move files around