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scidesertico

Can't start downloads from search tab

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hello everybody,
I have ubuntu 18.04 and qbittorrent v.4.1.7. I installed search option inside qbittorent and some search extensions. I make a search and when i select an item from search results, download doesn't start. Using windows everything works. How can i resolve it?
johnsmith101

Re: Can't start downloads from search tab

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[quote="scidesertico"]
hello everybody,
I have ubuntu 18.04 and qbittorrent v.4.1.7. I 9apps cartoon hd installed search option inside qbittorent and some search extensions. I make a search and when i select an item from search results, download doesn't start. Using windows everything works. How can i resolve it?
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Damm even I am having a similar kind of issue, I have searched all over the internet and even have posted on number of threads on different forum, no solution seems to work. I am really frustrated, can anyone of you here help me resolve this issue, I am very much tired now.
Last edited by johnsmith101 on Tue Oct 22, 2019 1:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
shivaa95

Re: Can't start downloads from search tab

Post by shivaa95 »

I had the same issue too and I searched everywhere, in a lot of other forums, but nothing shows how to solve it
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Re: Can't start downloads from search tab

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If you start qBittorrent from terminal, like so:
$ qbittorrent

And you see a lot of lines/text coming out. If you go to Search, and do the double-click, do you see anything relevant in the terminal?
fatima

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Post by fatima »

I also have the same bug, using qBittorrent v4.1.6 on Ubuntu Studio.
Did as requested:
1. started qbittorrent from the command line
2. search for torrent
3. double click
4. torrent goes to pink, but transfer does not start
5. nothing new appears on the console (some previous messages, when starting up, were saying "Theme parsing error"
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Post by fatima »

I have also checked:
~/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/
and there are not torrent files there.
And I have also checked:
~/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/logs/qbittorrent.log
and there is nothing abnormal there
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Re: Can't start downloads from search tab

Post by Drugwash »

There are a few search plug-ins that do not return the correct data. If right-click > Download doesn't seem to work, then use right-click > Open description page. A tracker page will open in browser and there should be download buttons there for .torrent files and/or magnet links. If those don't work then either there's something wrong with those pages or the browser has issues sending the links to the associated applications (if any).

Dunno if there's a section dedicated to bug reports for plug-ins - you may search for one and ask for the respective plug-in(s) to be updated.
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