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Tell you "teck" guy to start reading the Wall Street Journal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nortonlife ... 1628632237

So, you would rather randomly delete or disable programs until you stumble upon the one that is locking up your file? I'm sorry you had to go through that. There are at least 3 programs that I know of (only 1 is listed in the article I recommended) that will immediately tell you what program is lock...

Assuming you are running Windows -

https://helpcenter.gsx.com/hc/en-us/art ... -or-Folder

Read the Readme at https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett and https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-p ... ett-plugin

Presently using ver. 4.3.3 but I believe I first noticed this a few versions back. What happens is that a normal upload will take place with the upload speed in KiB/s. At some point the Peers will change to 0 and the upload speed will go into freefall until it reaches 1 B/s. The UL speed will stay t...

Did you try doing a ReCheck on the "Downloads in Progress" files?

I am missing a lot (not all) of the torrent information in the GUI What does this mean? Are you just missing the information about a torrent? If so, what information? Or, as your header says, you have missing and/or deleted torrents? Just .torrent files or their downloads or both? Those are two dif...

I have downloaded several torrents which are finished and I do not download for a day or more. qBit is active all the time. When I download torrent file/magnet link it shows up in qBit, but it doesn't start downloading. Only way to start downloading is to exit qBit and start it again. Hopefully I'm...

Very basic questions to start off with...

Did you install Jackett?
Do you have it running in the background as a service?
Did you actually receive an API key?
Did you set up Jackett with at least one tracker?