Why does qBitTorrent move files around drives?

[Gorrrg]

I just noticed that it moves for some torrents the entire folder structure of where I store torrent data to another drive and then immidiately move it back. What is going on? I think 5.0 did that but also definitely 4.6.7 to which I went back.

[thalieht]

I just noticed that it moves for some torrents the entire folder structure of where I store torrent data

You mean everything in your default save path or everything that belongs to that torrent only?
If it's just the torrent then you probably use Another path for incomplete torrents. When you select another file to download in a torrent that has already finished downloading, everything moves back to the incomplete path until it finishes downloading again. Don't ask why, that's the way it is.

[Gorrrg]

It only happened to some torrents and their files. Another path for incomplete torrents is set but it's on the original drive right next to the folder for the complete files. Also these were torrents that were completed over two years ago, they shouldn't be moved around at all.

As I said qBittorrent just mirrored the save path 1:1 onto the next drive and once it was done it moved the files back. Really weird.

2024-10-02 17:40 - Enqueued torrent move. Torrent: "Movie #1". Source: "E:\BitTorrent\Incoming\". Destination: "D:\BitTorrent\Incoming\"
2024-10-02 17:46 - Start moving torrent. Torrent: "Movie #1". Destination: "D:\BitTorrent\Incoming\"
2024-10-02 17:47 - Moved torrent successfully. Torrent: "Movie #1". Destination: "D:\BitTorrent\Incoming\"

This is what the log says when one of the torrents was moved back again to the original drive D. I didn't enqueue any torrent move at all. qBittorrent did this on its own.

[Gorrrg]

I just realized that this happened when I started qBittorrent 5.0 for the first time. Somehow a lot of my torrents got "Enqueued for torrent move" to another drive during startup of the new version.

Since the UI is slower in version 5.0 I'm currently back to 4.6.7 and stay on it anyway for a while.

And I think the torrents that were previously moved, were moved back to the original drive all on their own when I went back to 4.6.7. Luckily only a few torrents were moved around because the other drive was almost full. What's weird is that all the entire subdirectory structure was copied 1:1 to the next drive without me doing anything, not changing default save paths or anything like that. As if it was hardcoded or some script was running because of the version change maybe?