Restarting loses all torrents

Hi, sorry to hear about that.

This should add your torrents again:
qbittorrent ~/.qbittorrent/BT_backup/*.torrent

I don't understand how it is possible to loose the torrents yet. Was qBittorrent closed cleanly (it still runs in the term for some time to notify the trackers after you graphically close it) ?

Note that recent versions of qbittorrent uses this file:
~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent-resume.conf

to resume the torrents. If you lost your torrents, I guess this means that this file was not written or that your lost for some reason. I'm not clear why yet but I'm investigating. What I suspect is:

You did not close qBittorrent cleanly, qBittorrent-resume.conf might be written on clean exit only (I'm not sure and I have to check) so the file was not written for you. In any case, this is a bug and it should be more robust and I need to make sure what the problem is first.

I tried the command start of the app like you suggested with no joy. The file ~/.config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent-resume.conf does exist however its time stamp is from earlier in the day even though I have opened and closed the app several times since then. The file is not human readable. By the way it is not good form or security to store passwords in config files in clear text. I know a nit pic but still.

Regards and thanks for the quick response.

Also the directory ~/.qbittorrent/BT_backup/ does not contain any files with the .torrent extension. Just file groups like this along with many that are just 'hash'.fastresume.

fd53a9cd7ecab934d4a42b0b99aa89e7093374ea.fastresume
fd53a9cd7ecab934d4a42b0b99aa89e7093374ea.priorities
fd53a9cd7ecab934d4a42b0b99aa89e7093374ea.savepath
fd53a9cd7ecab934d4a42b0b99aa89e7093374ea.trackers

Well, this is extremely odd... I've just had a quick look at the code and I don't understand yet how it is possible that .torrent files are not there. I do copy the torrent to the backup folder when the torrent is added.

The torrents must have been deleted by qBittorrent at some point. I will have a deeper look in the code this evening because I'm at work right now. Thank you for the information, I hope this will help me find the issue in qBittorrent.

It might be related somehow: when I shut down qBittorrent with its exit button it asks if I really want to quit since I have torrents in the downloading tab. I push yes and it seems to quit, but unfortunately it doesn't. If I once start up qBittorrent during a session Ubuntu always warns me that it is running but not responding before I shut down the machine. I can also see qBittorrent in system monitor. I tried to pause all the torrents, then quit, but it didn't help either. I also get this behaviour if I wait hours between quitting and shutting down, so it seems it's not the background communication with the trackers. Though, I don't lose any data.
Could it be related or should I file a separate bug for this?
Thanks,
Istvan

István Kondor> It is normal for qBittorrent to keep running in background after you graphically exit. qBittorrent tries to contact the trackers to tell them good bye before exiting and it can take around 10-30 seconds (if you reach the timeout because some trackers are unreachable for example).

If you see that qBittorrent keeps running more than 30 seconds after you ask for the exit then this is a bug in libtorrent-rasterbar. In that case, you should contact libtorrent author and explain the problem: "Arvid Norberg" <email address hidden>. Please mention your libtorrent-rasterbar version number (qBittorrent version does not matter).

qBittorrent does not loose data on your box and it is not supposed to. Everything is saved at regular interval and on exit (even when killed).

Brian Hartson> I'm still trying to figure out how .torrent could be deleted without your knowledge. Did you edit program preferences and activated any 'non-default' features? For example, did you enable directory scanning (feature which scan a directory for torrents and automatically adds them to download list)?

Also, .priorities, .savepath, .trackers files should no longer exist with qBittorrent v1.5.x (they were replaced by ~/.config/qBittorrent/*.conf) actually.

I think that maybe you experienced an upgrade problem from qBittorrent v1.4.x to v1.5.x? From which exact version to which exact version did you first make the upgrade? (I know you are using v1.5.4 now but did you install directly this bugfix version?).

The torrents that you lost, did you start downloading them with another version of qBittorrent than v1.5.4?

Christophe,

I did upgrade. I loaded the version that was on tha Canaoical
distribution servers a 1.4 version not sure of the exact version. After
running it for a couple of days I went to the application web site saw
that a new version was available and using the method on the website
added the sources to apt and loaded the new version. Everthing went well
and the previous downloads were in the download and upload tabs. It
wasn't until a few days later that I had the issue.

Btw I am running Ubuntu 9.04LTS AMD 64bit if it makes ad ifference.

Brian

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Your question #88249 on qBittorrent changed:
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Christophe Dumez requested for more information:
Also, .priorities, .savepath, .trackers files should no longer exist
with qBittorrent v1.5.x (they were replaced by
~/.config/qBittorrent/*.conf) actually.

I think that maybe you experienced an upgrade problem from qBittorrent
v1.4.x to v1.5.x? From which exact version to which exact version did
you first make the upgrade? (I know you are using v1.5.4 now but did you
install directly this bugfix version?).

The torrents that you lost, did you start downloading them with another
version of qBittorrent than v1.5.4?

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Christophe,

I turned on the scanning feature only after I lost the downloads.

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Brian Hartson> I'm still trying to figure out how .torrent could be
deleted without your knowledge. Did you edit program preferences and
activated any 'non-default' features? For example, did you enable
directory scanning (feature which scan a directory for torrents and
automatically adds them to download list)?

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And what did you choose as a scan dir? You did not use "~/.qbittorrent/BT_backup/" did you? Because this would delete the .torrent files (up until today because I have now fixed the bug in SVN).

I know you enabled this after you lost the torrents but I'm trying to figure out if you lost the .torrent files after or not.

Christophe,

Yes I did. That probably explains why the .torrent files were gone.

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And what did you choose as a scan dir? You did not use
"~/.qbittorrent/BT_backup/" did you? Because this would delete the
.torrent files (up until today because I have now fixed the bug in SVN).

I know you enabled this after you lost the torrents but I'm trying to
figure out if you lost the .torrent files after or not.

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Ok. At least now we know why .torrent files disappeared. So you 're certain you enabled directory scanning *after* you lost your torrents, right?

If so, I have to find another bug now (I fixed one though, which is nice already).

Yes afterward in an attempt to get the downloads restarted without
having to go back and get all the torrents over again and possbly having
to start each from the beginning.

It might be helpful to have separate directiories for partials and
completed downloads.

Brian

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Christophe Dumez proposed the following answer:
Ok. At least now we know why .torrent files disappeared. So you 're
certain you enabled directory scanning *after* you lost your torrents,
right?

If so, I have to find another bug now (I fixed one though, which is nice
already).

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