Is there a way to stop qbittorrent from renaming torrent files?
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:27 pm
I'm trying to download a library. Each torrent is named by an alphanumeric prefix, an underscore, and a 5-digit number.
I need to keep careful track of which torrents I have and haven't downloaded.
I have a "watched" folder which I add torrents to, and when I run qbittorrent, it loads those torrents and moves them to the directory specified in Options > Download > "Copy .torrent files to:".
Except it doesn't. It copies the .torrent file, then renames it. If I put these torrent files in the watched folder:
nf_12345.torrent
f_00000.torrent
then when they're moved to the "doing" folder, they're renamed:
12345.torrent
00000.torrent
The problem is that there is an nf_12345.torrent and a f_12345.torrent; and they both get renamed to 12345.torrent . This confuses both me and qbittorrent.
So, why does it rename torrents, which seems stupid to me; and can I stop it from doing that?
I need to keep careful track of which torrents I have and haven't downloaded.
I have a "watched" folder which I add torrents to, and when I run qbittorrent, it loads those torrents and moves them to the directory specified in Options > Download > "Copy .torrent files to:".
Except it doesn't. It copies the .torrent file, then renames it. If I put these torrent files in the watched folder:
nf_12345.torrent
f_00000.torrent
then when they're moved to the "doing" folder, they're renamed:
12345.torrent
00000.torrent
The problem is that there is an nf_12345.torrent and a f_12345.torrent; and they both get renamed to 12345.torrent . This confuses both me and qbittorrent.
So, why does it rename torrents, which seems stupid to me; and can I stop it from doing that?