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In Win 8.1 I cant seem to get magnet links working

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:07 pm
by immo2012
I had utorrent installed then I installes qbit and then deinstalled utorrent

everything works find but magnet links dont work
I dont see any way to register it to qbit

Re: In Win 8.1 I cant seem to get magnet links working

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 11:21 pm
by ciaobaby
Tools -> Options -> Behaviour.-> File Association

Re: In Win 8.1 I cant seem to get magnet links working

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 10:23 am
by immo2012
magnet is checked already but it doesnt seem to work

Re: In Win 8.1 I cant seem to get magnet links working

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:25 pm
by ciaobaby
In that case, you need to set the Application associations/mapping in whatever browser you are using.

Re: In Win 8.1 I cant seem to get magnet links working

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 5:24 pm
by immo2012
I am using chrome v32 on win8.1-64

I guess its kinda of qbitt torrent bug to not set all the required setting in registry on windows




Schlüsselname:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet
Klassenname:            <KEINE KLASSE>
Letzter Schreibzugriff: 18.01.2014 - 22:14
Wert 0
  Name:            <KEIN NAME>
  Typ:            REG_SZ
  Daten:          Magnet URI

Wert 1
  Name:            Content Type
  Typ:            REG_SZ
  Daten:          application/x-magnet

Wert 2
  Name:            URL Protocol
  Typ:            REG_SZ
  Daten:         


Schlüsselname:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet\DefaultIcon
Klassenname:            <KEINE KLASSE>
Letzter Schreibzugriff: 18.01.2014 - 22:14
Wert 0
  Name:            <KEIN NAME>
  Typ:            REG_SZ
  Daten:          "C:\Program Files (x86)\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe",1


Schlüsselname:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet\shell
Klassenname:            <KEINE KLASSE>
Letzter Schreibzugriff: 18.01.2014 - 22:14
Wert 0
  Name:            <KEIN NAME>
  Typ:            REG_SZ
  Daten:          open


Schlüsselname:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet\shell\open
Klassenname:            <KEINE KLASSE>
Letzter Schreibzugriff: 17.01.2014 - 08:32

Schlüsselname:          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Magnet\shell\open\command
Klassenname:            <KEINE KLASSE>
Letzter Schreibzugriff: 18.01.2014 - 22:14
Wert 0
  Name:            <KEIN NAME>
  Typ:            REG_SZ
  Daten:          "C:\Program Files (x86)\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe" "%1"





update now its working qbittorrent set the required registry setting like seen above so magnet is working now


didnt saw any message from qbit so i guess it was a silent registry overwrite when start qbit