New Update Cleared most all transfers

[SailingHank]

Please provide the following information

qBittorrent version and Operating System

Latest

If on linux, libtorrent-rasterbar and Qt version

(type here)

What is the problem

I closed down qtorrent to transfer some files. When I reopened it, the interface was all different, and most all my pending transfers were all gone, except for 4 random transfers. All the downloaded data is still in the unfinished folder, just the torrents are gone.

I tried to find where the backups are, but cant find any.

I figured this was weird because I have been declining this update. It force updated on my machine, clearly as the interface completely changed, but it still said I had to update.

So I tried updating to newest version. Still all gone but the 4 random transfers it decided to not delete.

So I guess my question is, where can I find all the magnet torrents for the unfinished torrents? I still have the data for the ones that had started to be downloaded, but apparently the hundreds of torrents yet to start are just gone? I cant even remember what had finished and what hasnt, just all gone?

How did qbittorrent download and update without my permission and then require me to do it again and finish it?

[SailingHank]

I found the backups of the original torrents as well as the preferences file. How do I go about loading that preferences file into the new qbittorent? Also, how do I get it to read the information in the default file folders? Nothing has been moved, its like its just ignoring it. The data is right where it should be:

C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\qBittorrent

and

C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\qBittorrent

But it appears that now qbittorent isnt looking for the data there, and I cant find any way to change its directories.

[SailingHank]

This:

#6236

Appears to be what actually happened. Except all the data is right there where it should be, I have uninstalled and reinstalled past versions and new versions and qBittorent just doesnt care that its right there.

How is this possible? Its not looking for its own data in its own default directories. OK. But how do I tell it to start looking for the data it wants in the place that it wants it to be in? No way to change the directory, no way to manually add in the old data to a new location? What in the world?

[FranciscoPombal]

How did qbittorrent download and update without my permission and then require me to do it again and finish it?

Not possible. Maybe you missed something?

Likely an issue on your end, moving to discussions for now. Here, other users may help you getting your setup working correctly. If you do uncover an actual bug in the troubleshooting process, please submit a new issue report (one may be created for you also).

[SailingHank]

OK. So no bug happened, but somehow qbittorent just stopped reading the folder where it is supposed to be getting the data from? And changed its appearance upon a simple restart.

So I dont know what to call that, but I guess its not a bug. Regardless.

Does anyone know how I can make qbittorrent see the data for the torrent files in its own directory?

Order of events:

I restart qbittorent.

Appearance is completely different.
All of my torrents are gone except for 4 random transfers
I discover all old torrents are still in folder that they should be in as well as the preferences which are different now as well

So I dunno if that is a bug or perhaps as you suggested perhaps I dont know how to restart a program and I restarted qbittorent incorrectly and caused it to delete all my transfers except for 4 random ones.

This seems like a spectacular messup on my end, wouldnt you say?

-oh yea, and there are also entire threads where people are discussing this random crash happen to them.....very similar to what happened to me. But thanks for that helpful response there. Totally not a bug, all my fault.

[thalieht]

Maybe you're running it in portable mode (there's a folder named profile in the same folder as the executable or the shortcut you start it with has a tampered target to end with --profile=....? Do you have free space on your disk?

All of my torrents are gone except for 4 random transfers

That is indeed weird... but not unheard of. There were others reports about this but i don't think the cause was ever found, although the reports stopped a while ago.

[SailingHank]

Its weird, I think I know why those 4 torrents are randomly still there. Those 4 random torrents somehow were not in the automatic torrent management. Their magnets were stored in a different location, as is their transfer data.

I dont know how it happened, but the actual problem is that qbittorrent is completely ignoring the two folders that it should be using to populate the transfer list.

All the data is there, its just not using it at all, and is instead looking somewhere else. How do you change the default location for the magnets and preferences and everythign, as that appears to be the actual problem.

[SailingHank]

At bare minimum. How do I take the magnet torrents that are located in the default directory and reload them into qbittorent so it can start downloading them again? I know how to relink the data that it has downloaded, but I have no idea how to take those randomly named torrents and get them qbittorrent to see them