So this is the scenario (Windows 10):
- Had a few downloads lying around the desktop. Big files, around 30gb each
- Right clicked said files in qbittorrent, chose "set path", moved them to a different folder so they don't stay on the desktop
- Everything moves instantly, except for two file folders.
- Wait for about 20 minutes, they're still there on the desktop; meanwhile, bittorrent is using 100% disk
- Close qbittorrent, still runs at 100% disk for 20 minutes more
- Bittorrent process closes, one of the two remaining folders dissapears to the new location; one folder is still left on desktop.
- Restart qbittorrent, all of the moved torrents say: files missing
- Press the start button on one of them to see if that forces recheck, starts redownloading instead
- Close qbittorrent, move the files back to the desktop
- Open qbittorrent, 'missing files' is gone, except for the one I accidentally restarted downloading earlier. It succesfully rechecked.
- One of them still has missing files. Turns out, this one is the only one that had its path updated, so I had to right click and set its location to desktop because, as I said earlier, I moved all of the files back to the desktop so they would seed.
There is only one drive and partition on my computer.
So... did I do something wrong? If it succesfully moved some files, why did I have to move them back to the desktop for them to seed? How can I prevent this in the future?
And most importantly, can I trust the integrity of those files? It would be annoying to redownload 100+ gigs just to make sure I didn't screw the files up by simply moving them to another folder.
Thanks.
Odd behaviour when moving torrents
Odd behaviour when moving torrents
Last edited by RetroViking on Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.