as-muncher
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1 year ago This issue is still ongoing as of qbittorrent 4.5.5 x64 on Windows 11 x64. So let's say I want to download a torrent, but I see on btdig.com or some other torrent site that there are 2 of the same name, maybe one was created later than the other, but both with identical filenames. I don't know if one .torrent file was created so that the files can be added from another download - what's it called? - basically file snapping to grid, so that each file has its own torrent chunks to itself and torrent chunks don't overlap filenames. So I download both magnet links. Qbittorrent downloads both magnet links, but only creates 1 .torrent file, or at least that's all I see - maybe one .torrent file was overwritten with the other one with the same name. But it creates problems because qbittorrent doesn't support swarm merging yet (right?) as BiglyBT does, and doesn't automatically rename the directory, so that two torrents are running, writing into the same directory, messing up the files, because of the way the torrent is structured, so I keep getting errors, have to pause one and constantly recheck the other, even though the one is paused. So, it would be great if the two torrents could download at the same time, because I don't know which of those torrents are still valid, or if both work, how many seeds there are of each, you know? I suppose I will have to just create a new directory in Windows Explorer and just move the data over or something... do something so that I don't keep getting errors, two torrents fighting with each other over the data.
Yup, errors every time starting qbittorrent, regarding two torrents that have the same folder name, but even though one is paused and the other is not, the non-paused one always shows up with errors.
This is a feature request to have qBittorrent automatically rename a torrent's Name, and thus, the Folder ("Create subfolder for torrents with multiple files") where the torrent files will be downloaded to. Add a
(1)then(2)then(3)etc to the end of the torrent's Name.It is not uncommon to encounter multiple different torrents / magnets with a completely identical name. But it IS very difficult to detect if multiple torrents in qBittorrent have the same name, especially if you have 100+ or 5000+ torrents being managed.
Secondary Feature; Related but Different: Detect if save destination file(s) and folder(s) already exist, and add numbers to the end of those conflict names, so shit doesn't hit the fan as it often does.