i've only been having this issue since installing 5.1.0, so if the solution is simply "install previous version," i won't be upset. i should also preface that i'm not super tech literate, enough to be Tech Guy of the house/family but generally need help with more-than-basic troubleshooting.
i have an unlimited cloud drive (for all intents and purposes, 1 PB) mounted to my device via rclone where i download files to - this skips storing hundreds of TBs of data on my device as i queue many many files (download one at a time) in qbittorrent to download through the day and night. i also (obviously) use a VPN while downloading.
up until 5.1.0, i didn't have any issues with this. and even still, i don't have any issues with some files, but i can't really figure out what causes it since i'm not changing anything during, before, or after starting downloads. recently, i've started seeing "Errored: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" on about 90% of my downloading files. and so far this can be fixed by just waiting it out and starting the download back up later, but these waiting periods are increasing in length and exponentially. i don't make any changes to anything - device, files, download location, etc - while files are downloading.
i've read a handful of other posts and threads trying to identify the issue, but nothing seems to fix this and certainly not long term. storage capacity obviously isn't an issue, permissions and faulty drive aren't an issue (again, some files download unscathed and otherwise these files are able to finish downloading the longer i wait). i can't seem to figure it out.
5/5/2025 2:34 PM - File error alert. Torrent: "Whisper of the Heart (1995) (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit EAC3 5.1 Japanese Garshasp)". File: "J:\Whisper of the Heart (1995) (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit EAC3 5.1 Japanese Garshasp)\Whisper of the Heart (1995) (1080p BluRay x265 Garshasp).mkv". Reason: "Whisper of the Heart (1995) (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit EAC3 5.1 Japanese Garshasp) file_write (J:\Whisper of the Heart (1995) (1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit EAC3 5.1 Japanese Garshasp)\Whisper of the Heart (1995) (1080p BluRay x265 Garshasp).mkv) error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error"