Good news that qBt also cleans up after itself, if you delete the torrent from the transfer list it will delete the parts file too. If you have a parts file where you didn't touch any files in the torrent, that seems like an qBt issue. Personally I often download torrents partially and just hide parts files automitacally within my after Just by keeping a torrent on my list in a PAUSED state, I'm risking that qBittorrent is going to create or overwrite or re-allocate or break the file. I've lost few updated files due to that. I've edited the files after they have been downloaded (and paused) and kept them under the same name, then at some point qBittorrent broke them.
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