Seems reasonable, I didn’t thought about port conflict. But in this scenario not running both clients at the same time also is an acceptable solution.

Thank you for this clarification, I will try to exit qbit and launch it again when HDD is accessible. Maybe it will reset those error statuses. I think it didn’t work some years ago (error status remained, had to start verification).

“regular check” - do you mean verification? Verification takes a lot of time, verifying 10s of gigs will take a lot of time. What do you forget, stopping torrents?

I can move, but next time when I will launch qbt without external HDD accessible, those torrents will gain error status “Files not found” and will require a long verification process. This is what I’m trying to avoid.

I will check how categories can help managing this, thx