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[quote="Muzak"]
Just curious, how big is the torrent, I have one very large torrent that won't recheck in qBit, wondering if it might be a size issue.
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18GB

Size is not a problem, I have other torrents bigger than this.

This seems like a libtorrent problem. qbt doesn't handle the filesystem stuff. Can you open a bug report there and link back here too?
http://libtorrent.org/

I reapplied the non-read only property to all the files. This seems to have fixed the problem. It passed the check phase, even though it has not start downloading yet because I'm limited to 2 downloads on the tracker.
So I think it was a NTFS problem after all.
Thank you all for the help.

In uTorrent did you happen to have bt.read_only_on_complete set to true?

good catch skooter.  I went to my 55Gb torrent, forced it to remove the read-only flag from all files (only a few were flagged) and now the recheck was 100% success.  I'm thinking the read-only status may have been affecting the recheck process.

Now that you said that skooter and Muzak, I've experienced this too few times and solved it the same way and after that it was rechecking fine. a NFO file, a sample.avi file or a number of files were not rechecking correctly in some cases. Im wondering; does Windows set it to that or qBittorrent? It happened 2-3 times maybe so its a rare case with me though.

I've never been sure, it may be like Ciaobaby mentioned that I had the advanced setting in uTorrent that would mark items readonly, but not all my downloads are marked readonly.  I've noticed that Windows seems to mark some files as readonly when I copy them from my internal drive to the external raid arrays.  Again I've not been able to identify the reasoning for that or if they got marked prior to copying.

But anyhows I've got a couple re-seeds on some larger packs that I might actually be able to fill now.... hehehe.

[quote="ciaobaby"]
In uTorrent did you happen to have bt.read_only_on_complete set to true?
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I never saw that option, so it was probably set to whatever is the default.

But I don't think it's that because most files were not read only and they were also downloaded by uTorrent.
It's even weirder because now I found some read-only files in other torrents that qBittorrent does not complain about.

[Change the owner of the Folder that qBittorrent is trying to access]

Right-click the Fle/Folder > Properties > Security Tab > Edit > add EVERYONE as a user and make sure to give full permissions.

You can also try removing old owners of the file.

[Another possibility is that the file/folder is in "Read-only mode"]

Locate the File/Folder > Right-Click > Properties > General Tab > uncheck Read-only (under Attributes) > Click OK

You can also select multiple files and do the same.