qBittorrent doesn't recognize ~ as shortcut for home directory

Bug #499292 reported by Micah Gersten
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
qBittorrent
Fix Released
Medium
Christophe Dumez

Bug Description

When adding a new torrent, if you set the directory to ~/qBT_dir, it creates a directory ~/qBT_dir (which is actually ~/~/qBT_dir) in your home directory instead of just putting the files in qBT_dir in your home directory (~/qBT_dir)

Using qBittorrent 2.0.2

Micah Gersten (micahg)
description: updated
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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this. I indeed do not check the path before using it.

Changed in qbittorrent:
assignee: nobody → Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → 2.0.3
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :

This is fixed in SVN. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Changed in qbittorrent:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in qbittorrent:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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