Windows 11 qBittorrent mnamer FAILS to delete files after moving

[jcrashmiller]

Hello,

Great piece of software. Simple, does what I want, and doesn't use resources on a GUI.

I've wirtten a .bat script for Windows 11 to call mnamer. qbittorrent runs it after a successful download.

mnamer successfully finds, identifies, renames, and makes a copy of the file in the new location in the right folder and the right folder/filename. So far, so good.

However, mnamer fails to delete the original file after completing the rename/copy maneuver.

I created a few empty files and named them things that mnamer should find. It was successful all the way.

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Here is what I have found so far.

When I create a dummy file, it is not read only. When qbittorrent finishes a file, it is. My guess is this is why mnamer can't complete the task of deleting the original file after creating a properly named copy.

I have not found anything useful in my initial searches as to how to prevent qbittorrent from engaging in this behavior on Windows 11.

I know this is likely a qbittorrent issue, not an mnamer issue, but I'm asking here in case anyone else has experienced the issue and discovered a solution.

I can always wait for the rename/copy to complete, then delete the originals, but in automating it, I won't know for sure that the files made it to the new location without manual intervention (which defeats the purpose of automation).

Any thoughts?

I've already disabled controlled folder access, run sfc /scannow and dism checks as well.

[jcrashmiller]

I think I figured it out. Since dummy files I made could be properly processed to completion, but files from qbittorrent couldn't, I figured something was odd with qbittorrent. I tried running qbittorrent in administrator mode. Issue resolved. Hope this helps someone else.