Qbittorrent Keeps Grabbing Torrents Off Drives And Downloading Them

[joko]

I have qbittorrent on my laptop - but every time i plug an external hard drive into the laptop - somehow qbittorrent searches it and grabs all torrent files - and start re-downloading files - how can i stop it doing this?

i will probably try to delete the torrent files at some point - but i have a lot of drives with lots of copies of folders etc that its seeks -
i dont know its done it until i look in qbitt and see something there that shouldn't be

i cant see a setting in qbitt to start or stop this.

thanks

[Old_Geezer]

I know nothing of the programme you refer to, but I would suspect that a) you have it auto-starting up when you start your PC and running in the background, and b) you have the settings to allow the rest of the world to look at your external drive directories and download torrents from them from your PC to theirs. You might want to look at your setting for both qbit and your start-up.

[ivor4781]

if you have cc cleaner on your comp look in tools and click on start up you can disable or delete the start up in there

[Dizmo]

In Bittorrent go into settings [ctrl + P] and then to 'Directories' and make sure 'Automatically load .torrents from' is unticked.

[Dizmo]

Also go into UI settings and tick 'Don't start the download automatically'

[joko]

thanks all, will try those