torrents check to 0% instead of 100%
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:49 pm
I loaded .torrent files and their corresponding folders (containing their filesets), at first they would check to 0% and stop with Status = Stalled. I noticed that to the right of the path there was a yellow triangle with an exclamation point, and the hover message said Invalid (even though I added it with the Browse button).
(FYI these torrents should all check to 100% because I created them and now I want to seed them.)
Then I re-added the .torrent files and folders and this time had a different result: the folders got deleted and all their contents loaded into the default directory that the .torrent files are in. With this, checking went into an endless loop from 0% to 100% accompanied by torrent completion popups.
So I figured that maybe the issue was that I hadn't yet enabled the option to "Create subfolder for torrents with multiple files"; so I did but no change (that is, still the endless loop). (Though at least the folder contents weren't strewn into the default folder; though I am not pleased that apparently the folders I gave it were disolved in favor of folders qBittorrent created; this isn't an issue for my own torrents since I always make torrentfilename = torrentfoldername, but most people don't.)
On qBittorent Windoze I don't recall anything like this.
qBittorrent v4.0.3 (32-bit) on Linux Mint 19.2
Edit:
I got clued in on the Mint Forum that I should rename the folders at first lest qBittorent overwrite them with empty files, but I'm not getting more satisfactory results; no matter what I've thought to try, the torrents still only check to 0%. I've tried starting them, then pausing and restarting them, I've tried rechecking, I've tried waiting a while. qBittorrent isn't (as I guessed it might) creating it's own directory of empty files. So I finally go ahead and rename the folder back to it's proper name, and it still only checks to 0%.
(During this testing I am of course repeatedly copying backups of the folders from another HDD.)
Maybe this has something to do with that the reason I want to seed these is that they've dropped off the Dime tracker, so there's no tracker to connect to to start downloading from.
(FYI these torrents should all check to 100% because I created them and now I want to seed them.)
Then I re-added the .torrent files and folders and this time had a different result: the folders got deleted and all their contents loaded into the default directory that the .torrent files are in. With this, checking went into an endless loop from 0% to 100% accompanied by torrent completion popups.
So I figured that maybe the issue was that I hadn't yet enabled the option to "Create subfolder for torrents with multiple files"; so I did but no change (that is, still the endless loop). (Though at least the folder contents weren't strewn into the default folder; though I am not pleased that apparently the folders I gave it were disolved in favor of folders qBittorrent created; this isn't an issue for my own torrents since I always make torrentfilename = torrentfoldername, but most people don't.)
On qBittorent Windoze I don't recall anything like this.
qBittorrent v4.0.3 (32-bit) on Linux Mint 19.2
Edit:
I got clued in on the Mint Forum that I should rename the folders at first lest qBittorent overwrite them with empty files, but I'm not getting more satisfactory results; no matter what I've thought to try, the torrents still only check to 0%. I've tried starting them, then pausing and restarting them, I've tried rechecking, I've tried waiting a while. qBittorrent isn't (as I guessed it might) creating it's own directory of empty files. So I finally go ahead and rename the folder back to it's proper name, and it still only checks to 0%.
(During this testing I am of course repeatedly copying backups of the folders from another HDD.)
Maybe this has something to do with that the reason I want to seed these is that they've dropped off the Dime tracker, so there's no tracker to connect to to start downloading from.