So then when that window pops up that shows that information it's because the magnet link worked, allowing qbittorrent to find that info?Ĭause even with that being true, Qbittorrent has never shown a file as being 0gb before, and I've pretty much added every magnet link you variation you can think of over the last couple years, from 0 seeds or peers to 1000's. Thanks for your time and consideration of my issue. But I've tried this with Safari and I get the same thing.Īny ideas why suddenly Qbitorrent can't seem to retrieve metadata for magnet links all of a sudden, after performing like a champion for me for the last year? I read some response to someone who had a similar question in some forum from like 8 years ago, and the responder gave the dude a link to something that apparently showed him why his issue was somehow based in Chrome, not the client. But it can't seem to find the metadata for almost every magnet link today, and I have no idea what the issue is. Took like 5 seconds and it found the metadata. I should also say that the little pop up window that is giving me these absent readings for those categories, is all the while seemingly searching for metadata, as the progress bar in the bottom left corner of that window is filled with a moving blue color as if it's trying, it just never gets there.Ĭheck that, it got there for 2 torrents during my troubleshooting, but those came relatively quickly. The little disclosure box in qbittorrent that essentially asks me if I'm sure I want to add it says for file size: Not Available, and says the same thing for date and comment (whatever comment means). But the same torrent added via magnet link from RARBG would come in with no file size and not work. What I did find was that if I downloaded a torrent to my computer and then added it to qbittorrent, it would see all the info and add it correctly, with the file size showing up. I tried again today to add some of those torrents back and they would do the same thing. Thoroughly searched my mac in both the correct folders and elsewhere for the. Or I have no idea, actually.Īlso, there is no torrent file on the computer for those files as well. Obviously not downloading, as I don't think it thinks there's any content to download.
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Anyway, after completing such an onboarding of magnet links to Qbitorrent (v4.1.7) on my macbook last night, I didn't notice that half of them were imported with what I guess is incomplete information? I mean, they show a peer and leech count in alongside their names in the download view, but under size they show '0'. That would make it easy to paste in several magnet links at once, and have transgui automatically sync them to the server one by one (or all together, whichever works).When I add torrents I often have the pages with each torrents magnet links open on it's own tab in Chrome so I can just manually plow through adding them all at the same time, closing each tab after adding the link. My suggestion would be to change that box into a multiline one, and make it possible to enter multiple magnet links, one on each line. That's the one in Torrent -> Add torrent link. There's also a box to fill in a magnet link but it only takes a single link. However, that would be a different issue from this one, so let's ignore that for now.
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I found that clicking magnets in too quick succession causes it to (presumably) send erroneous stuff to the server, resulting in an alert box with a HTTP 400 error message. In my experience, magnets are sometimes the only source available.Ĭurrently it takes magnet links by clicking them individually, which takes a couple of seconds to sync with the server and update the UI for each link clicked. Sometimes I feel the need to add many multiple torrents at once, and I prefer to do so via magnet links.