qBittorrent official forums

see tracker here
https://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/is ... rt=&id=419
a quick and dirty work-around is the following

close QBitTorrent open command prompt and navigate to the downloaded files folder then do the following
1. fsutil sparse setlflag filenameinquestion
2. Open QbitTorrent and force a recheck wait for it to redownload the missing bits
3. close Qbittorrent and do fsutil sparse setlflag filenameinquestion again
4. copy the file elseware and enjoy
5. if you accidently open Qbittorent and its still has that torrent loaded you will need to repeat this process untill you either remove the torrent or copy the file elseware

you can close this thread as its superfluous

Thanks for your input Onemoar, much appreciated. Closing thread as you said .