Questions tagged [qbittorrent]

A multi-platform BitTorrent client with a Qt user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine.

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What are cookies for in a Torrent client (qBittorrent, specifically)?

I noticed that qBittorrent has in "Tools" a "Manage cookies..." section. In it, one finds the cookies stored. My questions are: What are these cookies for? Who stored them there (that is, how and ...
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How do I restrict qBittorrent from all wifi networks but one?

I want to set up automatic downloading via an RSS feed. Before I do that, I need to make sure qBittorrent can't run on any other network than the one at home. This is because I'm absolutely sure I ...
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Where can I see the total size is the selected torrents in qBittorent?

After selecting several torrents in qBittorrent, where can I see the total size these torrents would take after the download is completed? (i.e., the sum of the "total size" column of the selected ...
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Getting the qBittorrent embedded tracker functionality working

I am using qBittorrent to set up a private torrent and using the embedded tracker to seed it. However like many users, I am having issues with the clients leeching the torrent. The settings are as ...
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mounted drives on raspberry pi os lite bullseye are presently unwritable without superuser privilege

i'm running a headless media server off of a raspberry pi in my home, but i am presently unable to write anything onto it via qbittorrent (using the qbittorrent-nox package to run via webui) after ...
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Torrents slow down to a crawl

Recently I started noticing qBittorrent slow down to a crawl (from 5MB/s down to 1-3 kilobytes per second) Bear in mind, this is with a dozen or so extremely well-seeded torrents on top tier private ...
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qbittorent keep asking me my search plugins

I must regularly find again the .py file and load again the search plugin. For some reason qbittorent doesn't keep it longer than few days. How to avoid that waste of time?
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Segregation of files from a downloaded torrent for seeding

I recently download a torrent of one of my favourite tv series. The problem is, they're not segregated in folders per season. I want to reseed them, but I want them in folders. Do I need to make a new ...
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Qbittorrent moving files before they're completed

I've got qbittorrent set up so incomplete downloads are in one folder and they move to a completed folder when finished downloading. What Ive noticed recently is there were many more files in the ...
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Qbittorrent hogging bandwith even with limits and QoS

I changed ISP a while ago and since then qbittorrent has been hogging all my bandwidth whenever its used and all other devices lose internet. I have a 500MB d/l and 50MB u/l from my ISP which is twice ...
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Torrents cause all other ethernet and wifi to drop out completely

Ive just switched ISP and now whenever I use torrents only the machine downloading gets internet. All other ethernet connections drop out as if they've been disconnected and the wifi network ...
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How can I configure qBittorrent to automatically force resume stalled torrents?

Torrents sometimes get stalled when using qBittorrent. How can I configure qBittorrent to automatically force resume stalled torrents? I don't want to monitor myself which torrents are getting stalled....
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qbittorrent-nox on fedora server: no remote web ui access

I've installed qbittorent-nox on my fedora server and started it remotely via ssh. Now I want to access the web ui remotely, but my webbrowser won't connect. Is remote access disabled by default for ...
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qBittorrent. How to download skipped files?

I have skipped some files on my initial download dialog with qBittorrent, but it turns out I needed them. How can I set this files to start downloading and stop being skipped?
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qbittorrent download speed affected by upload speed limit

When I set the global upload speed limit to 3KiB/sec, the download speed is about 100~300 KiB/sec, but I changed the upload speed limit to 30 KiB/sec, then the download speed increased to 5~8 MiB/sec. ...
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