Deluge
I don't know what's going on but this problem seems to be getting worse.
Background: I'm using Windows 7 on a laptop with just a 250GB solid state drive, so for the past few months I've been downloading everything directly to an external hard drive that I try to keep plugged into my laptop. I say try to because the damn thing never stays plugged in. The slightest jostle and the external gets disconnected.
I few months ago uTorrent started giving me the error on some torrents, "Error: Former Volume not mounted", which was usually fixable by plugging the external in, restarting uTorrent, and force re-checking everything. Then it got to the point where it's started to not recognize the file data even when the HD is plugged in. After force re-check it would determine that the data is not there and start downloading from 0%. At one point I thought this was because the HD occasionally changes its drive letter on me, but this has been happening even when the torrent is set to the correct download location, drive letter and all. When you double-click on the torrent, it just directs you to My Documents.
I thought maybe this was a problem with uTorrent, and I hoped that a fresh start with Deluge would take care of whatever is going on. Nope. Deluge wants to download the vast majority of my torrents even after force re-check as well.
Here's what I think a big part of the problem is: the clients are having a hard time figuring out where the data is when it's in two different locations: my SSD and my external HD. How do I reconcile that though? And is this a deeper problem, given that setting the download location doesn't seem to work? How to I start the hell over without crashing my ratio on private trackers? Right now I'm trying to resolve this issue while running...well I just tried to pull it up to check the exact release, but now it's not responding whenever I ty to open it, so maybe someone could lend insight into that issue as well. I believe the version is 1.3.11 though.
Thanks for any and all help!