I may be missing something but I do not know what (I also searched for "Change download folder" and the search was too common to give me any result)
I have changed the "Default save path" but it changes nothing, nowhere have I told it to download to my user/downloads folder, the only place that is shown is where to search for torrents. I can change each individual torrents download destination by right clicking EACH individual torrent in the cue and navigating to the location I want....for EACH individual torrent. Why is this so hard? Why is there a place to designate the download location if it is simply ignored?
I am also going to want the files to be moved once complete, there is a space for me to input where I want that to be..... but it also is pointless as it does nothing. How can I get qBittorrent to do what it say it will do? BitTorrent does what it is told, is the only solution to go back to that program?
Change Download Folder
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Re: Change Download Folder
Are you using newest qBittorrent v4.4.5 or v4.5.0beta1?
Are you using categories and expect incomplete and completed files feature to not respect torrents with a category?
Did you enable Append .!qB extension to incomplete files?
You do know you can replace trackers, use tags, sort and highlight all with CTRL + A or highlight with mouse, use filters on left side to show Downloading or completed to manually modify locations or do anything else quickly with multiple torrents?
Are you using categories and expect incomplete and completed files feature to not respect torrents with a category?
Did you enable Append .!qB extension to incomplete files?
You do know you can replace trackers, use tags, sort and highlight all with CTRL + A or highlight with mouse, use filters on left side to show Downloading or completed to manually modify locations or do anything else quickly with multiple torrents?
Re: Change Download Folder
I am using 4.4.5
I am doing nothing with categories
I did not enable Append .!qB extension to incomplete files.....should I?
Being able to select multiple files is all well and good but there is a space in the UI to enter where I want the files to co when incomplete and another to enter the destination for complete files......why? What is the point if they do nothing.
I am doing nothing with categories
I did not enable Append .!qB extension to incomplete files.....should I?
Being able to select multiple files is all well and good but there is a space in the UI to enter where I want the files to co when incomplete and another to enter the destination for complete files......why? What is the point if they do nothing.
Re: Change Download Folder
Hi all,
Mostly same problem here.
Windows 10 1809 LTSB
qBittorrent 4.4.5
".qbit" extension added.
"Pre-Allocate disk" is activated.
At start, at the request of a torrent, download failure.
Every time the program is ran at boot, although the "default save path" and the "Copy .torrent files to" are set to "C:\Users\Userxxx\Downloads", qBittorrent tries to save in its installed program folder.
I have to manually choose an other place, such as "Desktop" where it loads fine.
Often, when I try a second (other) download, I get the same error but on the previously "working" folder and have to change it again.
I can deal with it that but it is a strange behavior that doesn't seem to be common.
FWIW, no exotic antivirus, anti malware, or else, just the default MS one.
Thanks for reading this.
Regards.
Mostly same problem here.
Windows 10 1809 LTSB
qBittorrent 4.4.5
".qbit" extension added.
"Pre-Allocate disk" is activated.
At start, at the request of a torrent, download failure.
Every time the program is ran at boot, although the "default save path" and the "Copy .torrent files to" are set to "C:\Users\Userxxx\Downloads", qBittorrent tries to save in its installed program folder.
I have to manually choose an other place, such as "Desktop" where it loads fine.
Often, when I try a second (other) download, I get the same error but on the previously "working" folder and have to change it again.
I can deal with it that but it is a strange behavior that doesn't seem to be common.
FWIW, no exotic antivirus, anti malware, or else, just the default MS one.
Thanks for reading this.
Regards.
Re: Change Download Folder
Request solved and closed.
Using another torrent program is the best available solution.
Goodbye farewell.
Using another torrent program is the best available solution.
Goodbye farewell.
Re: Change Download Folder
So.....I was recently forced to use magnetic link to get a torrent and qbittorrent saved the download in the folder I set it to download into.
Which means the problem is not that the location setting is being ignored by the program.
It is a problem with the coding not using that location setting when the torrent is added from a manual download.
Is the issue a USER problem - NO
Is the issue a PROGRAMMING problem - DEFINETLY
Which means the problem is not that the location setting is being ignored by the program.
It is a problem with the coding not using that location setting when the torrent is added from a manual download.
Is the issue a USER problem - NO
Is the issue a PROGRAMMING problem - DEFINETLY