(FEATURE)Settings Completed folders for categories (again) #5903

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opened 2026-02-21 18:06:55 -05:00 by deekerman · 3 comments

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 18:06:55 -05:00

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Originally created by @Grimshad on GitHub (Aug 10, 2017).

I know this has been brought up a lot... and I mean a lot, but it never seems to go anywhere.
So I just came to qbittorrent from deluge. I've also used hadouken and many many other clients. There is 1 thing that all of these other clients have that qbittorrent doesn't. To be fair it seems like it was requested a long time ago and the requestor gave a break down of how it should be done and the developer implemented the request exactly as requested. The problem is that the original requestors vision was poorly conceptualized.

So I'm going to ask again. PLEASE, oh please. Add the ability to set per category completed download folders.

To be clear before everyone starts yelling that qbittorrent already does that using "subcategories", let me explain:

I want to use the API to automatically set a label(or category) of the torrent that i am adding. Then I want to be able to go into the settings on qbittorrent and for each label(or category) i have, I want to be able to set a folder(ANY folder, ony ANY drive, not only a sub directory of the root download directory). Once the download of that label (or category) is complete, it should be moved to this folder.

Currently, as far as i'm aware, you cannot set a completely independent folder, It has to be a subfolder of the root download folder.

The way it should look in the settings is a pane with a scrollable list of all categories and next to each category name is a box for directory input. If it's empty, the category goes to the root download folder. The RSS Downloader even has the ability to move completed downloads to any folder -_-. If this is implemented then you can just allow RSS feeds to have a label( or category) set for them instead of a directory.

All of my powershell fileprocessing scripts recursively look through directories. The current setup means that to process my categorized files I have to edit all of my scripts to exclude all of my "subcategory" folders.

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Originally created by @Grimshad on GitHub (Aug 10, 2017). I know this has been brought up a lot... and I mean a lot, but it never seems to go anywhere. So I just came to qbittorrent from deluge. I've also used hadouken and many many other clients. There is 1 thing that all of these other clients have that qbittorrent doesn't. To be fair it seems like it was requested a long time ago and the requestor gave a break down of how it should be done and the developer implemented the request exactly as requested. The problem is that the original requestors vision was poorly conceptualized. So I'm going to ask again. PLEASE, oh please. Add the ability to set per category completed download folders. To be clear before everyone starts yelling that qbittorrent already does that using "subcategories", let me explain: I want to use the API to automatically set a label(or category) of the torrent that i am adding. Then I want to be able to go into the settings on qbittorrent and for each label(or category) i have, I want to be able to set a folder(ANY folder, ony ANY drive, not only a sub directory of the root download directory). Once the download of that label (or category) is complete, it should be moved to this folder. Currently, as far as i'm aware, you cannot set a completely independent folder, It has to be a subfolder of the root download folder. The way it should look in the settings is a pane with a scrollable list of all categories and next to each category name is a box for directory input. If it's empty, the category goes to the root download folder. The RSS Downloader even has the ability to move completed downloads to any folder -_-. If this is implemented then you can just allow RSS feeds to have a label( or category) set for them instead of a directory. All of my powershell fileprocessing scripts recursively look through directories. The current setup means that to process my categorized files I have to edit all of my scripts to exclude all of my "subcategory" folders. /endrant

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@thalieht commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2017):

#5222 does it but it seems abandoned.

@thalieht commented on GitHub (Aug 10, 2017): #5222 does it but it seems abandoned.

deekerman commented

2026-02-21 18:07:01 -05:00

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@3gghead commented on GitHub (Aug 14, 2017):

"Currently, as far as i'm aware, you cannot set a completely independent folder, It has to be a subfolder of the root download folder."

You should be able to in WinNT 2000 or later: mklink /D LinkName LinkTarget
You may have to make an alias for it or find an existing cmd-let to manage links in PowerShell.

@3gghead commented on GitHub (Aug 14, 2017): "Currently, as far as i'm aware, you cannot set a completely independent folder, It has to be a subfolder of the root download folder." You should be able to in WinNT 2000 or later: **mklink** /D _LinkName_ _LinkTarget_ You may have to make an alias for it or find an existing cmd-let to manage links in PowerShell.

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2026-02-21 18:07:01 -05:00

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@Piccirello commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2019):

You are able to set an entirely independent path as a category's save path. I just confirmed by creating a category with a save path of /tmp and adding a new torrent with that category. The torrent's files were indeed downloaded to /tmp. Please retry with the latest version of qBittorrent (4.1.5).

@Piccirello commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2019): You are able to set an entirely independent path as a category's save path. I just confirmed by creating a category with a save path of `/tmp` and adding a new torrent with that category. The torrent's files were indeed downloaded to `/tmp`. Please retry with the latest version of qBittorrent (4.1.5).