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by gmorehou
Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Override torrent folder upon download?
Replies: 1
Views: 1937

Override torrent folder upon download?

Hello,

Is there a way (in any client -- CLI, GTK, web or RPC) to tell Transmission to ignore any top-level folder contained in the torrent and put it in a folder of one's choice?

eg:

Torrent contains:

GutenbergBible/1.txt
GutenbergBible/2.txt (etc)

But I want this folder (which is in the ...
by gmorehou
Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:56 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: trying to edit settings.json
Replies: 7
Views: 19817

Re: trying to edit settings.json

Bam, you nailed it. The settings in question were in my init script.

This script has been carried forward for a LONG time and is probably from 1.x days. I skimmed through it last night, but didn't catch it then. Thanks!
by gmorehou
Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:34 am
Forum: Support
Topic: trying to edit settings.json
Replies: 7
Views: 19817

Re: trying to edit settings.json

I symlinked /etc/transmission-daemon to settings.json but it's still overwriting it.

I should mention I built Transmission from source on Debian because the official packages are too rarely updated. I also copied my startup script in /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon.sh from an older Debian etch ...
by gmorehou
Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:46 am
Forum: Support
Topic: trying to edit settings.json
Replies: 7
Views: 19817

Re: trying to edit settings.json

I am having this problem with the daemon on Linux as well. I'm running 2.22 on Debian 6.0.

I stop the daemon, verify it's stopped, edit settings.json, cat settings.json and the change is there, restart the daemon and the change is gone. In this case I am attempting to edit the rpc-whitelist setting ...