Showerthought: Figuring out why my anime downloads kept failing took me 3 hours

I spent all Saturday trying to download a new series from a fansub group and it kept stopping at 73 percent every time. Tried resetting my router, switching browsers, even reinstalling my torrent client. Turned out my antivirus was flagging the folder as suspicious and blocking the write access. Has anyone else had a dumb software setting waste half their day?

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hugo_craig3mo ago

Man that sucks, what antivirus was it? I had a similar thing with Windows Defender where it decided my entire torrents folder was a threat out of nowhere. Did you check the logs or just stumble on it by accident?

amy_sanchez3mo ago

Had that exact thing happen with Bitdefender last month. Just found out when I went to open a file and it was already gone.

hill.troy2mo ago

Yeah that's rough. Nothing worse than finding out your stuff got wiped and you didn't even get a warning first.