My question: I'm having issues with qbittorrent actually downloading anything. I'm using SurfShark by recommendation and the dashboard says everything is working and up. I used all 20 messages with the AI and we didn't really get anywhere. I've tried restarting so much as well as bringing it down and up. I've double and triple checked the VPN is all hooked in correctly. Whenever I'm on qbittorrent and either trying to download from a file or radarr, it never gets off stalled. I'm also having an issue where if I request from seerr it just hangs out in a monitored status in radarr unless I manually click the search icon, but I'm less worried about that at the moment. I'm not really sure what other information I can provide but let me know
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Chris wrote:
Hi m4p3l - the stalled downloads are dead copies with no seeders. Run removeandblocklistdownloads in Tom AI to remove them and blocklist for re-search. This resolves about 9 in 10 stalled torrents.
m4p3l wrote:
I no longer have access to Tom AI. How do I do this by hand?
m4p3l wrote:
I also don't think that's the issue, I found a more recent torrent and downloaded a file and uploaded it and that was still stalled.
Chris wrote:
That's important info — if a fresh torrent also stalled, it's not the initial dead copy alone. Since you don't have Tom AI access right now, here's the manual path: Remove the stalled items manually: In qBittorrent Web UI, right-click each stalled torrent → Remove → check "Also remove files from disk." Then go to Sonarr or Radarr, find the item, and click the search icon to trigger a fresh search. That will let Sonarr/Radarr pick a new torrent to try. If fresh torrents keep stalling, check your indexers: Go to Prowlarr (Settings → Indexers) and verify you have a couple of working indexers enabled. Do a manual search in Prowlarr for a recent release to see if it returns healthy torrents (with seeders). If Prowlarr can't find anything with seeders, that explains why every grab stalls. Let me know what you find — whether fresh torrents have seeders, and whether removing and re-searching changes anything.
m4p3l wrote:
Removing and re searching doesn't change anything, but I can now download torrent files. So nothing populates through the arr apps it seems
Chris wrote:
That's the key signal — if you can grab torrent files manually outside the arr stack, your VPN and connectivity are fine. The bottleneck is between Prowlarr and Sonarr/Radarr, or Prowlarr itself. Here's a quick check: In Prowlarr, go to the Settings tab on the left, then Indexers. Do you see any indexers in the list? Are any of them marked green (enabled)? If yes, pick one that has seeders (e.g., a public tracker or your working paid one) and use the Search icon next to it to do a manual test search — search for a recent popular movie or show. What does it return? Does it show results with seeders, or does it show nothing?