[BUG] Hydra misleads users when it doesn't have write permissions to a folder #1105
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Describe the bug
When starting a download to a folder which Hydra doesn't have permissions to access, (such as Program Files) instead of throwing an error and telling the user to pick another location, Hydra shows that the download has 0 seeds (and shows the number of peers inaccurately, fluctuating between 4 and 1 and sometimes going up to 7 or 9, when the torrent has in reality 45+ peers) and keeps on increasing the completion time and showing a very small download speed, misleading the user into thinking that the torrent in question has no seeders. (this was why it took me a while to discover why my Hydra was no longer downloading anything as before, Hydra was always launched as admin, so I set the download path to Program Files, which only programs with admin rights can write to)
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Expected behavior
When starting a new download, Hydra should check the download location and throw an error if it can't access it.
The error should tell the user to change the download location and try again, or to try running Hydra as an administrator.
Additional information and data
logs.txt - Recreated the bug and the "normal" behaviour, but these logs should probably not be needed anyways.
Operating System
Windows 11 Pro
Hydra Version
3.0.1
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