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Sorry, I can't help because I'm have nearly the exact same problem. I'm able to download and seed torrents created by others. I've tried disabling my Windows Defender and malwarebytes, even though they were already set to allow qbittorrent to pass (as indicated by my ability to download others' torr...

SUCCESS! I made the changes, but that had the same effect as manually re-adding the torrent - it didn't recognize that the torrent contents had already been downloaded. All the contents read 0% in the Progress field,  I did a Force Recheck and that solved the problem. Thanks so much.

I'm not sure what you mean by "adding them in stopped form". They already reside in the proper folder, as do the downloaded files.

No, exactly the same. I've tried adding a couple of torrents back in, but they don't find the already downloaded file, so they start to download it again from scratch.

I know there are many topics relating to restoring existing torrents, but I can't follow most of them. Here's the problem. I backed up my C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\qBittorrent\BT_backup folder and my Torrents folder. I uninstalled Version 4.1.5 then installed 4.1.1. When I start qbittorrent it...

I agree that the "Do not count slow torrents" does not seem to be working in 4.1.1. Setting max to a high number works for me.