QUAL — quality against what is available

Raised where the chosen quality preset and the world disagree. See quality presets.

Code	Severity	Exit	What it means	What to do
QUAL-1	warning	1	The free space is thin for the chosen preset — it holds only a few hours of content at that quality. Nothing is broken and nothing already downloaded is affected; new acquisitions will simply fill the disk quickly.	Free space, move the data location to a larger volume, or choose a lighter preset for the media that does not need it.
QUAL-2	warning	1	Releases exist for wanted content and the chosen preset wants none of them. The indexer is working; the preset is stricter than what can be found.	Choose a less demanding preset for that media, or wait for a matching release. The content stays wanted either way.
QUAL-3	warning	1	A clean search turned up nothing at all for wanted content. The indexer answered — this is not an indexer failure — there is simply nothing to grab yet.	Check the indexer carries this content, or wait. No action is needed if it is merely not out yet.

What each severity and each exit means is on every error by code, beside every other family.