Lost paused torrents

[jackboy]

Hi,

I had quite a few torrents that I have lost on my last reboot and I am not sure why.

I have torrents set to pause on add and I had via magnets. Now all these torrents that were paused and not started are gone. All the ones that were started are there. What happened and is there any way to recover them.

[jackboy]

Edited to reflect new question

[brunoais]

Did you made backups of the %localappdata%\qBittorrent\BT_Backup and %appdata%\qBittorrent ?

[ciaobaby]

Version??

Operating system?


However:

Now all these torrents that were paused and not started are gone

If the metadata had not loaded,  which does not happen when added in a paused state, the task will not have resume data OR a metadata file (.torrent) to load the information from.

[jackboy]

Version?? Newest stable

Operating system? Windows 8.1

However:

Now all these torrents that were paused and not started are gone

If the metadata had not loaded,  which does not happen when added in a paused state, the task will not have resume data OR a metadata file (.torrent) to load the information from.

Alright, sounds like they are all gone then. Just cannot figure out why. Everything shut down normally.

[ciaobaby]

Alright, sounds like they are all gone then. Just cannot figure out why. Everything shut down normally.

No figuring out needed, as I said earlier if the metadata has NOT been downloaded and saved locally, ... there is nothing that can be loaded when the client restarts.

[jackboy]

[quote="ciaobaby"]No figuring out needed, as I said earlier if the metadata has NOT been downloaded and saved locally, ... there is nothing that can be loaded when the client restarts.
[/quote]So it doesn't store the magnet links anywhere?

[ciaobaby]

A magnet link only identifies the hash id, tracker(s) (and a 'name') which then enables the client to locate peers and make requests for the metadata, there is nothing in a magnet  link TO save that can make the client request any part of the payload.

[venzel]

[quote="ciaobaby"]
If the metadata had not loaded,  which does not happen when added in a paused state, the task will not have resume data OR a metadata file (.torrent) to load the information from.
[/quote]
Shouldn't it download the metadata and then pause? Is this intended behavior? Maybe there's some reason but to me, it doesn't make sense.

[ciaobaby]

Paused means no download activity. is taking place.