Lost all torrents that were downloading once issues/8422 happened and it is not letting me download or upload

[absolutep]

Lost all of my torrents when #8422 happened and now every time I open Tribler, it only shows this error as shown in the screenshot.

I have already lost all of my torrents and can neither add a new torrent or add the previous torrents that were already added.

Tribler version build 153
windows 10 up-to-date

[absolutep]

Ok, just now I noticed that I was trying to download a v2 torrent maybe that is why, this error happened. And deleted all of my torrents.

I did not realise that torrent was v2 because qBittorrent had no problems downloading it.

So, maybe check into why it deleted all of my torrents - I mean should have just shown an error stating the inability to download the torrent rather than deleting my whole torrent database and now not letting me upload/download any torrent.

Uninstalling/Reinstalling is also not working.

[qstokkink]

First things first, let me repeat myself:

First, important disclaimer: random GitHub builds could potentially contain anything that could completely destroy your Tribler installation. I would very much advise against running them.

It seems that is exactly what happened. Please don't run random builds from our GitHub and expect them to work.

That said, you can fix this with some manual cleanup. In your "state directory" there is a dlcheckpoints folder (%APPDATA%/.Tribler/dlcheckpoints). This is where your downloads are stored, regardless of your installation (reinstalling won't help). In here, you'll also find your v2 download: it's probably named something like 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000.conf. If you remove that file, Tribler should behave again.

[absolutep]

Please don't run random builds from our GitHub and expect them to work.

I understand and I was just testing. Thanks anyways.