The internal hard drive of my macbook isn't that big. So I use to transfer (move not copy) completed downloads to an external NAS for further seeding. Usually that won't work though Setting a new path afterwards is not always accepted/shown in the General Tab. A force re-check usually doesn't go to 100% seems as qBittorrent does not recognize the completed download but starts downloading again to my download folder My settings: downloads to folder "downloads", not completed torrents to "downloads/temp/". Manual move goes to NAS /torrents/<file extension>/. In some single cases that works as expected, in most cases qB starts the download again from the start. That happens regardless of the torrent being paused or active seeding
Is that a systematic bug or do I something wrong to cause qBittorrent not to accept the already downloaded data
Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
Sorry, forgot my program versions
qBittorrent 3.0.6, OSX 10.6.8, QNAP NAS 3.7.3
qBittorrent 3.0.6, OSX 10.6.8, QNAP NAS 3.7.3
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
hmm, I think I read somewhere that NAS doesn't work directly from within the program, you're telling it to move the completed torrent, or on completion, to move to a NAS location?
Also, I don't know if this might be OSX specific, I can't test or confirm.
Also, I don't know if this might be OSX specific, I can't test or confirm.
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
[quote="loki"]
hmm, I think I read somewhere that NAS doesn't work directly from within the program, you're telling it to move the completed torrent, or on completion, to move to a NAS location?
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Well I have another torrent (Data > 400 GB) which seems to work with a download folder on the NAS, after some trial and error I now set the download folder, wait for completion (that works at least) and I move the completed files. There the recheck (and thus seeding) won't work
I tried this procedure with two different NAS - same problem with both I don't have an idea why it works sometimes and why sometimes I can't convince qB to find the files for re-check
Did I read correct: can I tell qB to move a torrent data file after completion? Where and how? That is a feature I miss - coming from uTorrent.
[quote="loki"]
Also, I don't know if this might be OSX specific, I can't test or confirm.
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I can't help you - I own the Macbook just for 6 months - both my win machines don't like standing now in the middle of nowhere and strike
hmm, I think I read somewhere that NAS doesn't work directly from within the program, you're telling it to move the completed torrent, or on completion, to move to a NAS location?
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Well I have another torrent (Data > 400 GB) which seems to work with a download folder on the NAS, after some trial and error I now set the download folder, wait for completion (that works at least) and I move the completed files. There the recheck (and thus seeding) won't work
I tried this procedure with two different NAS - same problem with both I don't have an idea why it works sometimes and why sometimes I can't convince qB to find the files for re-check
Did I read correct: can I tell qB to move a torrent data file after completion? Where and how? That is a feature I miss - coming from uTorrent.
[quote="loki"]
Also, I don't know if this might be OSX specific, I can't test or confirm.
[/quote]
I can't help you - I own the Macbook just for 6 months - both my win machines don't like standing now in the middle of nowhere and strike
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
Move a torrents files upon completion? No. But it does have a manual selection as follows:
Right-click (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) on completed torrent and Set location... should bring up a dialog that lets you select the new location.
Also a lot of other useful features in this menu, if you've overlooked it up to this point.
Right-click (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) on completed torrent and Set location... should bring up a dialog that lets you select the new location.
Also a lot of other useful features in this menu, if you've overlooked it up to this point.
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
[quote="loki"]
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Right-click (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) on completed torrent and Set location... should bring up a dialog that lets you select the new location.
Also a lot of other useful features in this menu, if you've overlooked it up to this point.
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Well I love this menu - but alas the setting new location did not move the downloaded data file (I assumed that at first). A manual move of the data file has the same result : a force recheck (I originally switched fro :'(m uTorrent) does not check the datafile but starts downloading again - destroying the already downloaded content this way
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Right-click (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) on completed torrent and Set location... should bring up a dialog that lets you select the new location.
Also a lot of other useful features in this menu, if you've overlooked it up to this point.
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Well I love this menu - but alas the setting new location did not move the downloaded data file (I assumed that at first). A manual move of the data file has the same result : a force recheck (I originally switched fro :'(m uTorrent) does not check the datafile but starts downloading again - destroying the already downloaded content this way
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
Just as a follow up: switching to 3.0.8 seems to have solved the problem in most cases. Not in every case, but the positive results have significantly increased (up tp 90 % of my moved torrents now seed after moving ).
Re: Completed Downloads - transfer for seeding.
Ubuntu 10.04 - qBittorrent v2.7.3
Hi, I just tested this on my Ubuntu system and it works. A similar process should work for the MAC (I like MAC's but I don't have anything newer then a Macintosh Classic 2 )
First thing I did was create a folder called "torrent_files"
Then I set the below option in qBittorrent to that location. I didn't have this option set before but the program automagically found the .torrent files and put them there:
Options->Downloads
Copy .torrent files to:
/home/user/Downloads/torrents/torrent_files
*Takes about a minute to show up
I moved all of my files in completed folder to my NAS location (/home/user/Downloads/torrents/completed -> /mnt/NAS/torrents/completed)
I then changed the following option to save the completed files:
Save files to location:
/home/user/Downloads/torrents/completed
To my NAS location:
Save files to location:
/mnt/NAS/torrents/completed
I then went into qBittorent and right clicked on one as a test and went to "delete" (leaving delete files from hard disk unchecked)
Then I found the torrent file in /home/user/Downloads/torrents/torrent_files and copied it to my watched location:
Automatically add torrents from:
Watched Folder
/home/user/Downloads/torrents/watched
After about 20 seconds it started doing a recheck!
Once I confirmed it was seeding and working I reran the steps above but with all of my completed files.
100% were found and rechecked successfully
Hope this helps, cheers!
Hi, I just tested this on my Ubuntu system and it works. A similar process should work for the MAC (I like MAC's but I don't have anything newer then a Macintosh Classic 2 )
First thing I did was create a folder called "torrent_files"
Then I set the below option in qBittorrent to that location. I didn't have this option set before but the program automagically found the .torrent files and put them there:
Options->Downloads
Copy .torrent files to:
/home/user/Downloads/torrents/torrent_files
*Takes about a minute to show up
I moved all of my files in completed folder to my NAS location (/home/user/Downloads/torrents/completed -> /mnt/NAS/torrents/completed)
I then changed the following option to save the completed files:
Save files to location:
/home/user/Downloads/torrents/completed
To my NAS location:
Save files to location:
/mnt/NAS/torrents/completed
I then went into qBittorent and right clicked on one as a test and went to "delete" (leaving delete files from hard disk unchecked)
Then I found the torrent file in /home/user/Downloads/torrents/torrent_files and copied it to my watched location:
Automatically add torrents from:
Watched Folder
/home/user/Downloads/torrents/watched
After about 20 seconds it started doing a recheck!
Once I confirmed it was seeding and working I reran the steps above but with all of my completed files.
100% were found and rechecked successfully
Hope this helps, cheers!