Update from 7 to 8 - how to restore downloads

Everytime, when I updated to new version everything works out of the box. Now, when Tribler open in browser, I don’t have anything on download list. I had a lot of not finished downloads in previos version. How to restore it in new version?

Within settings, Version, you have an import function. It works, but it eats memory and loops. I rebooted after an hour, when tribler was writing 8Mbs to my ssd and eating up memory for an whole hour. It kept updating the metadata.db, I wondered why for 200 Torrents. SO figured it was looping. After a reboot some unknown torrents with weard names where in my library, but most seemed to be there. But all my ratio was gone, at least it was not showing.


I have got only this.
But…I didn’t have a lot of torrents, so I found them, and restart downloading.

Once again. I lost all of my downloads from list after reboot… what the… Version 8.0.5

I recognize the problem of Topic Starter

I was using Windows Tribler v7.14 and I was still downloading several torrents.
Today I started Tribler v8.0.7
It first uninstalled my previous v7.x version
and it started v8, which now has a webinterface.

But in v8 I see an empty downloading list !!

In menu;Setting;Tab Default download settings,
I had to modify the download folder,
but still, the download-list remains empty.

In menu; Versions, I see Old version 7.14 with button ‘Import’
After selecting this button… Tribler was busy for half an hour
and finally stopped… without showing any downloads !!

So… How can I continue in v8 with my v7 downloads ?