μTorrent downloads remain stuck on the 'checked 0.0%' state

This started happening randomly, all downloads stop right after getting their metadata with a "checked 0.0%" message. Closing and restarting the client may start the first download in the list, but that's also random.

One suggestion I found was to delete %AppData%\utorrent\resume.dat. The first time I fired up the client after I deleted it everything worked fine but then the file was recreated and I was back where I started.

I'm using the current stable version, 3.3.

Solution 1:

a work around that seems to work for me is to stop all torrents, start them again then exit UTorrent - go to your AppData/Roaming folder under your user folder and delete all the .old files then restart UTorrent - all of my 6 downloads running now.

Hope this helps :-)

Solution 2:

I have added steps for both Mac OS X and Windows, works for all versions of uTorrent (including the latest versions). Please note: Windows is untested so if someone could confirm the steps I would be grateful.

OS X
1) Stop then Start all torrents
2) Exit uTorrent
3) Open Terminal and execute the following command (enter your password):
cd "~/Library/Application Support/uTorrent" && sudo rm -f *.old

... This will delete all .old files.
4) Open uTorrent and you're good to go.

Windows (untested)
1) Stop then Start all torrents
2) Exit uTorrent
3) Open Windows Explorer and go to the following location: %AppData%/uTorrent
4) Manually remove all files ending .old
5) Open uTorrent and you're good to go.

Solution 3:

Upgrading to version 3.4 seems to solve the problem.

3.4 is (currently) alpha so it won't show up through the Help -> Check for Updates route, you'll have to install it manually. It's also not (very) quick to find on μtorrent's website, so here's a quick link.