How to Fix the Azureus Disk Read Error

Do you get one or all of these errors when using Azureus?

Error: Disk read error - [filename] (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process), open fails

File close fails: [filename] (The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process), open fails, flush fails

Are you also running Google Desktop?

If you answered yes to both of these questions, you're probably really glad you found this article! And you should be, because I can fix your problem.

These errors are saying that another program has one of the files you're downloading open, so it can't access it to continue downloading. If you're like me, it's that Google Desktop has that file open to index it. All you have to do is follow these simple steps to tell Google Desktop to not index the folder(s) you download your torrents to:

1. Right-click on the Google Desktop icon in your task bar (the rainbow-colored circle near your system clock.)
2. Select Preferences...
3. In the Web page that opens, under "Don't Search These Items", click the "Add file or folder to exclude" link.
4. From the resulting dialog, browse to the folder where you normally save the files you download with Azureus and click Ok.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each folder you normally save files in, if applicable.
6. Click Save Preferences at the bottom of the Web page.
   
7. Send me money. (I'm guessing since you use Azureus you probably will skip this step.)

This should also correct the issue where the DivX Settings Manager icon comes up in your system tray all the time while you're downloading avi's - if you have it. If it doesn't, then try this fix (using Azureus.exe as the value.) You may have to run "divxsm /unregister" then "divxsm /register" in a command prompt to reset the thing and get it to stop.

It's likely that this will fix similar issues experienced on other P2P file sharing clients such as Kazaa or Shareaza.

Read: Genesoc (probably down)
Read: P2P Forum Italia (in Italian)