i just started several downloads that go directly to my external hdd. right now i got an error message, something like that in english:

error: could not open "/home/ungua/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor0/cache/FILENAME" no such file or catalogue

my question is: is the torrent broken or am i dependent on my native hdd to download things? the difficulty is that there is almost no space on my notebook's hdd and when i wake up to a row of errors and a full hard drive tomorrow morning i could just as well turn off the machine now.

regards
ungua

I havent had a problem downloading to my usb hard drive so it is possible.

Is the filesystem on the external disk fat ?

yes, it is fat - since i then can access it from different machines. but now it looks as if downloading works very well without disturbing my notebook's hdd.

regards
ungua

p.s.: ktorrent's downloading speed doubles when i use a browser (in my case: firefox) to surfe at the same time. how can this be explained!? as soon as i stop, it slows down again.

ungua wrote:yes, it is fat - since i then can access it from different machines. but now it looks as if downloading works very well without disturbing my notebook's hdd.

FAT has problems with some characters in filenames.

p.s.: ktorrent's downloading speed doubles when i use a browser (in my case: firefox) to surfe at the same time. how can this be explained!? as soon as i stop, it slows down again.

Huh, that's strange.

FAT has problems with some characters in filenames.

but i assume that there's nothing not compatible to fat on my list. the torrent was probably faulty.

Huh, that's strange.

and pretty much counterintuitive...

regards & thanks
ungua