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Hello, When downloading files, it gets stuck at "Downloading metadata" and cannot be downloaded. I tested these torrents on another machine and everything works fine. Is it because my device has a problem?

If it says metadata, it means your client is trying to download the torrent file from the other peers because it's a magnet link. But it can't connect to them.

Look up port forwarding and make sure you don't have qBittorrent firewalled.

Lack of port forwarding will affect only a tiny minority of cases, it's very unlikely to be the cause of a systematic problem.

roballen wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:50 am Hello, When downloading files, it gets stuck at "Downloading metadata" and cannot be downloaded. I tested these torrents on another machine and everything works fine. Is it because my device has a problem?

What Peter said. Are you by chance using a VPN on your main machine? Some providers have designated P2P file transfer servers. Others don't allow torrenting at all (they actively block it). I ran into this issue once before with a previous service provider I tried so just thought I'd mention it.