FAQ RSS rules are lost after chaning user name

[Silas Mariusz]

Symptoms:
RSS rules are lost after changing login user name

Cause:
Different user profile was found and it's all settings restored.


Understand:

• Rtorrent-Pro by default uses rtorrent login name - we call this profile. In that profile user has configured some settings and added one intial RSS rule.
  
  
• Later admin decided to change its login name from rtorrent to xyz. That means it's previous profile has changed from rtorrent to xyz. All is fine, settings are kept including RSS rule.
  
  
• After an rtorrent-Pro upgrade or reinstalling it again to perform password recovery, rtorrent initiates with default rtorrent profile to login where no RSS rules are configured.

Scenarios:
Two scenarios may happen now.

1. User configured RSS rules in rtorrent profile. Once he changed user name again to the previous profile xyz an old profile was restored with old settings including RSS rules.
   
   
2. User forgot his old profile name or changed name to abc instead to xyz. So the current settings from rtorrent profile was applied.

Solution:

• Restore old user profile to revert all settings by changing user name to old profile name.
  
  To find an old profile navigate into Download share then into rtorrent/settings/users or Rdownload share and settings/users:
  
  
  
  Please find one active profile: rtorrent directory (there might be more) and two profile backups rtorrent and silas.
  
  NOTE: Please backup whole directory before doing any changes.