Search in qBT 3.0.0 not working

[Leoi]

Hi there,

first I wanted to thank you all for the great work with the program and all the forum help.

Second, I just needed a little extra help because I'm not sure if that's a bug or a common problem or something that only happens to me...

Well, my prob is that I just cannot use the search within the program anymore since a couple of days ago. I thought that maybe it could be a version issue so I unistalled it and reinstalled 2.9.7 instead but that didn't help; next I re-installed 3.0.0 (why isn't a 3.0.1 for windows also?) and tried to search again but it didn't work either.

Finally, I've also tried to change Python's version from 2.x to 3.x (and back when...) but I still cannot get search results

Oh, and btw, I tried to search for very common terms as well (including "porn" lol) but it never finds anything, so I thought something might go wrong with it? If anyone has any idea, it would be great,

thank you

[Dayman]

Try deleting nova folder in AppData\Local\qBittorrent
Backup first if you have custom search engines installed.
[quote="Leoi"]
(why isn't a 3.0.1 for windows also?
[/quote]
There's only 3.1.0alpha, which is ahead of 3.0.0 only by 2 commits. git HEAD has more stuff.

[Leoi]

Woaa, Thank you for that quick reply!

But I'm afraid it didn't work I deleted the nova folder and then the nova3 as well, but it was almost 3 minutes searching in either case and finally got the same message all over again, "The search returned no results".

I expect I did it right, but not sure; the folders were marked as "occults" and hidden in my win7, you know, but they're the only ones I could find with that route.

[Dayman]

[quote="Leoi"]
I expect I did it right, but not sure; the folders were marked as "occults" and hidden in my win7, you know, but they're the only ones I could find with that route.
[/quote]
Not sure what "occults" does mean.
Anyway. A bunch of questions:

1. Is python installed to default location (or any location w/o spaces; e.g. "C:\some dir" will not do, "C:\some_dir" will be ok.
2. Can you launch cmd.exe and run several commands?
   • python --version
   • python2 --version
   • python3 --version
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3. Not sure if i686 qBt can use AMD64 python, but anyway. What your windows' architecture (x86 or x64) is and python for what architecture have you installed?

[Leoi]

Hi again,

sorry, English isn't my first language; I meant "hidden": those folders weren't on "normal" display.

Well, I've installed Python with all its default settings each time I had to, and I can find it now on C:\Python32

And yes, I can run cmd if you specify me the commands (I'm a complete disaster regarding computers, I'm afraid), but if it's in order to check Python's version I'll say its 3.2.3 as it is specified in its website (at first I installed the version qBT recalls automatically when trying to search, but when I still had troubles with it, I changed in order to try, but still nothing), I think it was the one labelled "Python 3.2.3 Windows x86 MSI Installer (Windows binary -- does not include source)" because the one below didn't fit my laptop settings or something and I couldn't even install and try it out.

Anyway, I've also tried before and afterwards the "Python 2.7.3 Windows Installer (Windows binary -- does not include source)"- labelled one and it didn't work either.

Not sure if I understood your last request, sorry :S - My Windows version is Win7 Professional 32 bits, and the processor is AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core 64; every other function of the qBT goes fine, btw

Thanks a lot for your help!

[leo1d]

Try updating python to the newest version.

-close qbittorrent
-uninstall python (control panel -> uninstall programs)
-download and install the newest version (32bit version http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.3.0/ ... 3.0rc1.msi)
-run qbittorrent

[Leoi]

Thanks, but that didn't work either

[stihia]

Leoi, stop qB and try to uninstall again Python with Revo Uninstaller (recommended - free version 1.93). Be very careful with the registry keys you must delete - you must delete only the keys in bold characters! Delete all directories that Revo shows in the last step of the uninstall process. Restart computer (although not necessary) and reinstall the last version of Python.
Good luck!

[Leoi]

Hi!

Thanks for your tip and the software recommendation (no problem there), but I'm afraid it didn't work either =( The same message all over again, though having no problem with the downloads or uploads.

I think I'm giving up by now and just wait for another release of qBT for windows or try and find the previous one; thank u all anyway.

[Dayman]

Necroposting time.

I was poking around with python today. And here's what I found. The official python installer doesn't expand PATH variable; so this is pretty much the root of the problem.
That is why I was asking for command output - to see if python can be launched from anywhere, not only it's intallation dir.

I suggest installing ActiveState Python instead of official binaries, it expands PATH variable in default configuration.

[loki]

Any possibility getting this version linked in the point to location, when qB asks to install python (whichever one it needs, I see the link lists up to 12 different versions)?