Need to start clean but not lose downloaded files.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:15 am
Howdy,
New member so hi to everyone. Up to this point, qbittorrent, QB, just worked but a couple days ago, I think I made a boo boo. I don't think this is a bug or anything. Gonna kinda start from the beginning.
I started using QB a good while back. Let's not get into to the details of what I download. Over that time, I've obtained a lot of files that are kinda hard to get. I hold onto those files to give back since I have quite a chunk of disk space. The other day, I started selecting the torrents in blocks and adding additional trackers manually. Some only had a small number and were not very active, receiving or sending. When I started adding these trackers, it improved both directions. The problem started when I was adding trackers to the ones that were only seeding.
When I add trackers, it takes it a bit to merge them with trackers it already has. That's why I do it in chunks. Usually 30 or so at a time. It was working fine until it took one CPU core to max usage and just hangs there. After hours of this, much longer than previous times, I stopped QB and restarted it. It comes up with the pop up that it is loading torrents and that part works normally. Once it is done, one CPU core to max again and nothing. No network activity at all. I have let it sit there with one core at max for hours, sometimes all day or all night and it never finishes whatever it is doing.
I don't want to lose the actual files I've downloaded but I'd like to reset the rest. Basically, I want to start fresh, readd the torrents and QB find the downloaded files, whole or in part, already there. My plan is to do a ls for the names of the torrents, hash would be nice to if I can figure them out, and use those to add them back.
Is this doable? What all must I delete? I'm a Gentoo Linux user here.
Also, for future ease, I'd like the .torrent files to be stored in one directory and the files themselves to another. If I'm about to get a fresh start, this is a good time to reorganize a bit.
I hope I'm clear on this but since QB has just worked for me until now, I'm not real sure what terms to use for things. The .torrent file is what I get to start the torrent being added to QB. The file itself is the things it downloads based on the .torrent file. That make sense??
Thanks for any help.
New member so hi to everyone. Up to this point, qbittorrent, QB, just worked but a couple days ago, I think I made a boo boo. I don't think this is a bug or anything. Gonna kinda start from the beginning.
I started using QB a good while back. Let's not get into to the details of what I download. Over that time, I've obtained a lot of files that are kinda hard to get. I hold onto those files to give back since I have quite a chunk of disk space. The other day, I started selecting the torrents in blocks and adding additional trackers manually. Some only had a small number and were not very active, receiving or sending. When I started adding these trackers, it improved both directions. The problem started when I was adding trackers to the ones that were only seeding.
When I add trackers, it takes it a bit to merge them with trackers it already has. That's why I do it in chunks. Usually 30 or so at a time. It was working fine until it took one CPU core to max usage and just hangs there. After hours of this, much longer than previous times, I stopped QB and restarted it. It comes up with the pop up that it is loading torrents and that part works normally. Once it is done, one CPU core to max again and nothing. No network activity at all. I have let it sit there with one core at max for hours, sometimes all day or all night and it never finishes whatever it is doing.
I don't want to lose the actual files I've downloaded but I'd like to reset the rest. Basically, I want to start fresh, readd the torrents and QB find the downloaded files, whole or in part, already there. My plan is to do a ls for the names of the torrents, hash would be nice to if I can figure them out, and use those to add them back.
Is this doable? What all must I delete? I'm a Gentoo Linux user here.
Also, for future ease, I'd like the .torrent files to be stored in one directory and the files themselves to another. If I'm about to get a fresh start, this is a good time to reorganize a bit.
I hope I'm clear on this but since QB has just worked for me until now, I'm not real sure what terms to use for things. The .torrent file is what I get to start the torrent being added to QB. The file itself is the things it downloads based on the .torrent file. That make sense??
Thanks for any help.