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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon qbittorrent

Updater UX improvement

Open Jaggerstag opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Suggestion

Add text to updater: "Please pause your torrents and exit qBittorrent to avoid any complications during the download. Don't forget to resume your torrents after finishing." Or make the whole process automatic(more work?/overengineered?)

Use case

New and casual(me) users might not know that they don't have to use task manager to stop the background threads, instead they can just pause the torrents.

Extra info/examples/attachments

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Jaggerstag avatar Sep 01 '22 19:09 Jaggerstag

Auto-update has been declined in the past.

NotTsunami avatar Sep 02 '22 03:09 NotTsunami

The installer detects when qbittorrent is running and tells you to exit it. You don't have to use Task Manager. Just File->Exit or right click on the system tray icon and Exit.

sledgehammer999 avatar Sep 02 '22 19:09 sledgehammer999

The installer detects when qbittorrent is running and tells you to exit it. You don't have to use Task Manager. Just File->Exit or right click on the system tray icon and Exit.

If i just simply exit, my torrents keep running in the background and mess with the updater.

Jaggerstag avatar Sep 03 '22 02:09 Jaggerstag

If i just simply exit, my torrents keep running in the background and mess with the updater.

Well they shouldn't. qBittorrent should stop after you exit. If you have a lot of torrents downloading then you may need to wait a bit for file data to be written to disk.

sledgehammer999 avatar Sep 03 '22 11:09 sledgehammer999

how about it just downloading the installer and launching it? would this be a problem?

sibber5 avatar Dec 30 '23 20:12 sibber5