Torrents in watched folder not being added

[dfarley1]

I'm running v3.2.5 on Windows 7 in a VM and I'm watching a shared folder (mapped to drive Z in the guest) "Z:\Path_to\Folder". When I add torrents to the folder from my host machine they are not picked up by qBitTorrent until I restart the program. The torrents have been in the folder for a few hours and the Execution Log doesn't show any messages about them.

I'm wondering if this is because I'm watching a network folder, would making a symlink to a local folder and watching that help?

[sledgehammer999]

I'm wondering if this is because I'm watching a network folder

Probably.

[fbriere]

#5966 seems to confirm that watching shared folders on Windows does not work.

[ghost]

seriously long bug that still appears to not be fixed. It also doesn't work with Raspberry Pi stock OS for v3.3.7

[sledgehammer999]

This issue has been closed and locked for being too old, and thus either most likely resolved in recent versions or no longer applicable.
If you experience the reported problem or similar in the latest version, please open a new issue report with the requested information in the issue template.

A new issue report with relevant updated data gathered from the latest version is preferable to necroing an old report with a comment like "still happens in version x.y.z", even if you think the bug is the same, or suspect of a regression.
Due to the changes made to the qBittorrent code and its dependencies over time, the exact cause of your problem could be totally different than the original one, despite the visible symptoms of the bug being similar.
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