Unable to properly remap download client path

[danielsen2009]

I have been trying to figure out the proper settings to remap my download client path, nothing I've tried seems to work and I always get an error/warning from the test.

I'm using BitTorrent v5.1.0 on Win11 with my NAS mounted as S:\ , downloads are in S:\Downloads
My bindery setup is running on Ubuntu in docker and the mounted path is /mnt/Storage/Downloads
I've added the path in my docker-compose as /mnt/Storage/Downloads:/downloads
In the bindery download client settings I've tried S:\Downloads:/downloads, S:\Downloads\bindery:/downloads, S:\Downloads:/downloads and a few others with no luck.
In qBittorrent, the bindery category is set to save in S:\Downloads , does this need to be S:\Downloads\bindery ?
I couldn't use my *arr stack as an example, they do the remap differently in their UI.

My real question is, what should I be using to remap a path from qBittorrent on Windows, to bindery hosted on Ubuntu?

Edit to add details:
torrents are added to qBittorrent properly when searching from bindery
bindery is creating the folders for authors and books, no files copied over

[vavallee]

Sorry for the delay looking at this, issues get looked at sooner.

[vavallee]

Sorry for the slow reply, and thanks for the detail. You were not doing anything wrong. This is a bug, and none of the forms you tried could have worked.

Bindery splits a remap at the first colon it finds. Your drive letter puts a colon in the middle of the source path, so S:\Downloads:/downloads was being read as "from S" and "to \Downloads:/downloads", which matches nothing. The settings page accepted it because the validator splits the same way, so it never flagged the problem. On top of that the matcher only recognised forward slashes, so even a correctly split rule would not have matched S:\Downloads\bindery\Book.

That explains everything you saw. The torrent adds fine because that path never goes through the remap, and Bindery creates the author and book folders because it knows where the book belongs, then finds nothing to copy because the client path never resolved.

Tracked as #2191, fix is in #2183. Once that ships the mapping you want is:

S:\Downloads:/mnt/Storage/Downloads

Left side is exactly what qBittorrent reports, right side is where Bindery sees the same files. Either slash works on the Windows side and the case does not matter. Your category can stay in S:\Downloads, no need for a bindery subfolder unless you want one.

One thing worth knowing for later: with the client on Windows and Bindery on Linux, hardlinks will not work across that boundary, so imports there are copies.