Problem: I keep getting Hash: Element not found errors. Technical Details: uTorrent 3.2.3 (latest as of this writing) Running about 30 Torrents (all downloading) Win 7 64 bit Dell N5050 :sigh: Symptoms: Force recheck is disabled (sometimes) When I resume the torrent, as it halts when this happens, it proceeds smoothly until the next Hash: Element not found error It doesn't happen at a particular %age Solutions Attempted: Searched online a lot to find a few below Re-download elsewhere. Set download folder and change it and re-download the torrent. NO! DOESN'T WORK! and its FRUSTRATING that I'd to DELETE my 90% downloaded torrent!! Good 'ol thump . Swear at the screen making heavy fist thumps and hand gestures. Surprisingly, this doesn't work! Force recheck. Doesn't help and sometimes not available. Disk I/O errors. Came across an article which said this might due to Disk I/O errors. Realized I was using a DELL laptop Realized HDD had failed on a previous DELL Tried Solution #2 again. Same results. Seemed like the most likely explanation to the problem, hence read articles about HDD checking and downloaded a few suggested softwares to check HDD Health Interestingly, the HDD was a OK None of these worked!

Reputation: 19039

utorrent Hash: element not found

Problem:

I keep getting Hash: Element not found errors.

Technical Details:

uTorrent 3.2.3 (latest as of this writing)

Running about 30 Torrents (all downloading)

Win 7 64 bit

Dell N5050 :sigh:

Symptoms:

Force recheck is disabled (sometimes)
When I resume the torrent, as it halts when this happens, it proceeds smoothly until the next Hash: Element not found error
- It doesn't happen at a particular %age

Solutions Attempted:

Searched online a lot to find a few below

Re-download elsewhere. Set download folder and change it and re-download the torrent. NO! DOESN'T WORK! and its FRUSTRATING that I'd to DELETE my 90% downloaded torrent!!
Good 'ol thump. Swear at the screen making heavy fist thumps and hand gestures. Surprisingly, this doesn't work!
Force recheck. Doesn't help and sometimes not available.
Disk I/O errors. Came across an article which said this might due to Disk I/O errors.
- Realized I was using a DELL laptop
- Realized HDD had failed on a previous DELL
- Tried Solution #2 again. Same results.
- Seemed like the most likely explanation to the problem, hence read articles about HDD checking and downloaded a few suggested softwares to check HDD Health
- Interestingly, the HDD was a OK

None of these worked!

Upvotes: 3

Answers (3)

ClearBlueSky85

Reputation: 463

I got this error when my hard drive ran out of disk space, so I think it is related to some file / disk access issue, depending on where you are writing to

Upvotes: 9

ᴍᴇʜᴏᴠ

Reputation: 5256

I was trying to download some large files to a network drive (Windows XP to Samba) and I was getting the same Element Not Found error.

In my case, enabling the disk cache has solved the issue. I had to uncheck the Disable Windows caching of disk writes and Disable Windows caching of disk reads options under uTorrent Options -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Disk Cache (this way enabling the cache).

utorrent preferences screenshot