In order for an application to work properly on windows, it must be granted administrative privileges. Method 1: Granting administrative privileges to uTorrent Not to worry, the following methods will allow you to find and fix the cause of this problem.

Some users got the problem fixed when they tried resetting the download location through the uTorrent client.

An internal bug that stops the download: There are some chances that a bug in the uTorrent is responsible for this behavior.

To fix these issues you would either have to remove the read-only property of that folder or just create a new folder and download your torrents there.

Folder not granted access: In some cases, users reported that the folder in which a torrent is being downloaded is not giving access to uTorrent, it is somehow set to read-only.

To fix this, all you would have to do is to give administrator privileges to uTorrent and it will start downloading again.

uTorrent not having administrative privileges: Most of the time the error where the torrent says that it can’t write to disk is because it is not given administrator privileges.

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