Comment 3 for bug 483223

Thank you for the feedback. Torrent files are saved in ~/.qbittorrent/BT_backup folder. Could you remove the torrents, close qBittorrent and see what happens in this folder? (torrent files should be deleted).

Also, please run qBittorrent in a terminal so that you can see possible error output on stdout/stderr. The only reason I can see for this happening would be that qBT does not have the right to delete the *.torrent files in ~/.qbittorrent/BT_backup.