Magnet Downloads

[VonFraunk]

VonFraunk last edited by

Yesterday (August 9th) I installed Opera and made it my default browser. I had occasion to download a couple of torrents so I used the magnet. A popup asked me if I wanted to use qBittorent as my default client and I clicked OK. As I used two different torrent websites I had to go through the same process again. Both magnet downloads worked perfectly. Today when I click on a magnet nothing happens. Why would it not work today? Thanks.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @VonFraunk last edited by

@VonFraunk Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

[VonFraunk]

VonFraunk @leocg last edited by

@leocg Opera One

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Page with magnet link that's not working at the moment for you?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

You can goto the URL opera://about, take note of the "profile" path, close Opera and edit the "Preferences" file in the profile folder with JSONedit in tree mode. Under root, if you see "protocol_handler", you can right-click "protocol_handler" and choose "delete selected node" and save your changes. That should reset the magnet protocol settings for Opera. Or, you can look under root/protocol_handler/allowed_origin_protocol_pairs and make sure "magnet" is set to true for each site listed there. Or, you can delete the node for each site you don't want so that you get asked again by Opera on those sites.

If you open up a command prompt and run:

start "Magnet test" "magnet://test"

, does qBittorrent start up?