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Path is randomly reset to ~/Downloads for all torrents #270

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opened 2026-02-21 14:59:28 -05:00 by deekerman · 5 comments

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Originally created by @szebenyib on GitHub (Jan 5, 2013).

The issue is that after a couple of reboots my downloaded torrents simply think that they have been downloaded to a 'default path' of ~/Downloads. Of course they are not there and qbittorrent immediately starts to download them there forgetting their real path to another location. (Mount is ntfs no problems experienced with it that is why it is strange and I don't know if there is anything to do with it.) This is really weird and renders my otherwise favorite client useless.

Originally created by @szebenyib on GitHub (Jan 5, 2013). The issue is that after a couple of reboots my downloaded torrents simply think that they have been downloaded to a 'default path' of ~/Downloads. Of course they are not there and qbittorrent immediately starts to download them there forgetting their real path to another location. (Mount is ntfs no problems experienced with it that is why it is strange and I don't know if there is anything to do with it.) This is really weird and renders my otherwise favorite client useless.

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@sledgehammer999 commented on GitHub (Jan 21, 2013):

There is another user reporting a similar problem here: http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php?topic=1706.msg5488

Just posting it to keep track of the possible explanations/variations.

@sledgehammer999 commented on GitHub (Jan 21, 2013): There is another user reporting a similar problem here: http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php?topic=1706.msg5488 Just posting it to keep track of the possible explanations/variations.

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@Pellanor commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2013):

I just came across a very similar(the same?) issue as well. Yesterday I upgraded to 3.0.8 and when I started up qbitorrent it tried to restart all of my torrents. It appears to be checking my incomplete folder, rather than the save to (with appended labels) location.
In addition the label has been removed from all of my torrents.
I tried setting the label for a torrent and forcing recheck, but it still tried to check my incomplete folder rather than the actual destination. The same thing occurred when I set the download location to be the folder it had already downloaded too.

I'm currently running on Windows 7 Pro x64

@Pellanor commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2013): I just came across a very similar(the same?) issue as well. Yesterday I upgraded to 3.0.8 and when I started up qbitorrent it tried to restart all of my torrents. It appears to be checking my incomplete folder, rather than the save to (with appended labels) location. In addition the label has been removed from all of my torrents. I tried setting the label for a torrent and forcing recheck, but it still tried to check my incomplete folder rather than the actual destination. The same thing occurred when I set the download location to be the folder it had already downloaded too. I'm currently running on Windows 7 Pro x64

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2026-02-21 14:59:36 -05:00

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Apr 9, 2013):

Happened to me as well several times across different versions (3.0.4, 3.0.6, 3.0.9). Labels were reset and then the program started to re-download all torrents. It wasn't a big deal before when I only had a few torrents loaded, but now that I have 250-300, the program "resetting" at random when it starts up with my PC and pointlessly re-downloading torrents (resulting in a lot of lost ratio for a few of my trackers) is unacceptable.

@ghost commented on GitHub (Apr 9, 2013): Happened to me as well several times across different versions (3.0.4, 3.0.6, 3.0.9). Labels were reset and then the program started to re-download all torrents. It wasn't a big deal before when I only had a few torrents loaded, but now that I have 250-300, the program "resetting" at random when it starts up with my PC and pointlessly re-downloading torrents (resulting in a lot of lost ratio for a few of my trackers) is unacceptable.

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@alfrix commented on GitHub (Sep 10, 2013):

dupe of #160

@alfrix commented on GitHub (Sep 10, 2013): dupe of #160

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@sledgehammer999 commented on GitHub (Oct 1, 2013):

This should be fixed with a1a5fb065e and bbf47b0907

It will be included with v3.1.0 which is the next stable release planned. For those who cannot wait:
For Windows try my nightly: http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php/topic,1747.msg8034.html#msg8034
For Ubuntu use this PPA(wait for the autobuild to sync): http://launchpad.net/~hydr0g3n/+archive/qbittorrent-trunk/
Others: Find a 3rd party who provides packages from git master or just wait for your distro to package v3.1.0

@sledgehammer999 commented on GitHub (Oct 1, 2013): This should be fixed with a1a5fb065e33caa7ec1e0d430b8413a652a11096 and bbf47b0907ca82dc52babbff1a01b5ba0ed257af It will be included with v3.1.0 which is the next stable release planned. For those who cannot wait: **For Windows** try my nightly: http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php/topic,1747.msg8034.html#msg8034 **For Ubuntu** use this PPA(wait for the autobuild to sync): http://launchpad.net/~hydr0g3n/+archive/qbittorrent-trunk/ **Others**: Find a 3rd party who provides packages from git master or just wait for your distro to package v3.1.0

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