Transmission

...Macs (if you stuff them in some hidden Application Data directory. They're not hidden on a Mac. /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Transmission/Torrents I was concerned that someone with root access can see remaining .torrent files in that account. They should be gone if you delete th...

I don't really understand what OP is requesting in this thread. As far as I understand it he wants the ability to export a .torrent-file from any loaded torrent and the ability to "hide" ones activity from root. Well, you could call it export but any other way of preserving the .torrent f...

I don't really understand what OP is requesting in this thread. When you're done with a torrent, removing it will delete the .torrent and the .resume file. Ok, Thanks for clearing that up. I did not know that removing torrent will also delete .torrent file. Although I suspected it. This is not a be...

I don't know whether XDG standard applies to data. From the XDG standard : $XDG_DATA_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific data files should be stored. If $XDG_DATA_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.local/share should be used. $XDG_DATA_DIRS define...

Save how since magnet links are saved as .torrent-files in the torrents folder? It follows the XDG standard and it only contains files for the torrents that are loaded into Transmission, so no different from just opening the client. If anything then the resume folder is slightly worse since it seem...

Options for saving the torrents from magnet links is needed.
The default folder on Linux .config/transmission/torrents is a hidden folder and not obvious.
This creates a privacy nightmare as a trail of torrent files is left behind.