7z extract on torrent completion in qBittorrent app won't extract .rar file

Apps and Virtualization
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the container logs shows that a torrent is completed and that the torrent completion command runs to extract the rar file in the directory but returns “Cannot open the file as archive”.

If i try extract this manually in the shell of the container i get a similar error.

How are others achieving this?
I used to be able to do this when i had a qbittorrent on a ubuntu server vm and worked great but since using container it doesn’t work, what gives?

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i should also add this is using the ix catalog qbittorrent app

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A few different causes spring to mind.

  • The file could be corrupt.
  • If it’s part of of a multi-part archive, you may be trying to open the wrong part. Typically you would open the file ending with .001, that in turn will automatically go through all the files and assemble the uncompressed contents.
  • Have you tried extracting it on a different computer, perhaps it’s an issue with the version of 7z inside the container?
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Possible there an issue with the multipart file.

You could add Unpackerr as an app and let it handle that function.

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The file, or files are not corrupt, this happens with all files.
I am able to extract the .rar file in the multi-part rar on my laptop through the SMB share, but obviously this is not ideal.
I do suspect its an issue with 7z in the container but I am not sure how this could be?
Im really curious for someone else using the ixsystem qbittorrent docker container to tell me if they use the same option in qbittorrent to extract the torrent files on completion and if it works for them or not.
Or also interested in another way to automatically unpack my torrents rar files.