Kemono Downloader v9.2.5

[Yuvi9587]

v9.2.5 — Pawchive Fixes & Bug Fixes

Pawchive.st Improvements

Smarter handling for "pending" posts

Pawchive marks some posts as pending — meaning the files haven't been imported from Patreon or Fanbox yet. Before this update, the downloader would just keep retrying over and over until it gave up, which wasted time and spammed your log. Now it tries once, sees the file isn't ready, and tells you clearly why it couldn't download it. You'll get a clean message explaining that either:

• The post hasn't been imported yet (check back later), or
• The file is too large for that creator's tier on Pawchive (Pawchive has size limits based on how popular a creator is — 100 MB for smaller creators, up to 5 GB for big ones)

That explanation only shows up once per session too, not once per file — so if you're downloading a creator with 50 pending posts, your log won't be flooded.

Fixed the download server address

Pawchive quietly changed which server they serve files from. Downloads were failing with a "can't connect" error because we were pointed at the old address. That's now updated to the correct one.

Automatic fallback if the main server is down

If Pawchive's main file server can't be reached, the downloader will now automatically try the old backup server before giving up. You probably won't even notice — it just silently switches and carries on.

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Bug Fixes

App icon now shows correctly in the Windows taskbar

The Kemono Downloader icon was showing as a blank/default Windows icon in the taskbar. This was caused by the icon being set up at the wrong point in the startup process. It now shows the correct icon, both in the taskbar and on the welcome screen.

Welcome screen no longer shows a style error

The first-run welcome tour was logging a "could not parse stylesheet" warning on startup. This was a silent bug where the styling rules lost their labels and Qt just ignored the whole thing. Fixed — the tour now looks the way it was designed to.

Linux: library.db was being saved in the wrong folder

On Linux (Ubuntu etc.), the app was accidentally creating a separate AppData folder (capital A and D) instead of using the existing appdata folder. This meant library.db ended up in the wrong place and the app couldn't find its own download history. Linux filesystems treat uppercase and lowercase as different folders, unlike Windows. Fixed — everything now goes to the correct lowercase appdata folder.

If you're on Linux and already have this issue: you can fix it manually by running mv AppData/library.db appdata/library.db && rmdir AppData from your Kemono Downloader folder.

"Database is locked" error when downloading with multi-threading

Every time a file finishes downloading, the app quietly saves a record of it to a local database (library.db) so it can keep track of your history. If you had multi-threading enabled and two files happened to finish at the exact same moment, both of them would try to write to that database at the same time — and SQLite doesn't like that. One of them would get knocked back with a "database is locked" error, which meant that file's record didn't get saved (and in some cases the thumbnail save was aborted too).

The fix is simple: the app now makes each thread patiently wait its turn before writing. No more collisions, no more errors — everything gets saved properly even when several files finish at once.

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This discussion was created from the release Kemono Downloader v9.2.5.

[lisp925]

Howdy,

I just realized that when im downloading from a creator, in this case https://pawchive.st/patreon/user/36476626 / wolfaninensfw, it doesnt download everything from a post.
Example this post : https://pawchive.st/patreon/user/36476626/post/158251459 , it downloaded the first image and the rest of then nothing

or in short this kind of error:
❌ Download Error (Non-Retryable): 3.png. Error: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://file.pawchive.st/data/5d/5b/5d5bf893c4a7f24198837eae9e6b8810e8f3a64acf2fd731a0b899fd1df0e66f.png?f=3.png
->>Download Fail for '3.png' (Post ID: 158251459).
❌ Download Error (Non-Retryable): 2.png. Error: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://file.pawchive.st/data/68/c9/68c9e2b6070f57c7bc77a936ad0bb048e770f9cbb84bf532592a44c786a61a16.png?f=2.png
->>Download Fail for '2.png' (Post ID: 158251459)

If you click the image it loads fine so idk where is the error and if it happens to other creators too.

[lisp925]

I even tried to download one by one and still the same error and tried to download from a specific post to and still it doesnt download entirely. Are you sure the problem is still mine? :C

[Yuvi9587]

20 threads and take break of 1 to 2 hour after every download

[Yuvi9587]

And the image you uploaded i can see the code Error "404" that just mean file dosen't exist

[lisp925]

Ok so for every creator download max 20 threads and take breaks between 1 - 2 hour, okey
I'll let you know if the problem persist, thanks

[lisp925]

So i tried again and still the same problem TwT

I just realize that when clicking on the image to fully display, it doesnt load entirely so it has to be pawchive problem. I test it with other browsers and nothing

PD: Okey i tried using ProtonVPN using EEUU as example it loads everything corretly, so it has to be something about Spain issue or else

[hyogaevij]

Hello, I'm trying to download a file, but in the post says that archive can be found in discord, cant be download with the downloader?thanks.

[Yuvi9587]

what you mean by "archive can be found in discord" can you share the post link

[hyogaevij]

https://pawchive.pw/patreon/user/180395754

[Masoyip]

doesnt work for me

[Yuvi9587]

the pawchive domain is changed from .st to .pw it wil release a update