Why are categories basically useless in qbittorrent? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've only got a couple of categories, one for sonarr, prowlarr (for some reason), and Games. They each have their save path set and thus I would expect any torrent added under the Games category would be saved in the path set for that category. But they're not, they're dumped in the default save path making that folder a hot mess. What's the deal? Why are categories so terrible?

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[-] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 43 points 1 year ago

Tools > Preferences > Downloads > Saving Management

Change "Default Torrent Management Mode" to automatic

[-] counselwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

what does this do?

[-] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Qbittorrent will save downloads to the assigned category's folder instead of manually specifying the download location each time.

[-] rambos@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It will move files to location you have set in category settings. If you are using sonarr it can automatically set tv-sonarr category and then qbittorrent will move it to your tv shows folder.