Unable to Automate Assign Group to New Transfer

[scchang]

Using 1.92 and 10.6.2. In the Groups preference tab, I've created a simple rule to assign a transfer to group "Red" if comment is "red". The assignment fails. Any help appreciated.

[livings124]

I'm not having an issues. Do you have other rules set? How are you adding the transfer? Are you sure the comment in the torrent matches?

[scchang]

No other rules set. I've tried adding the transfer by opening the torrent file. I've checked and rechecked to make sure that the comment matches. Interesting that you aren't having a problem. Any other ideas? Thanks.

[Damien]

This is not an isolated incident, I have rules that have worked in previous versions that now do not work after the upgrade to 1.92. Something is definitely up.

[livings124]

This is not an isolated incident, I have rules that have worked in previous versions that now do not work after the upgrade to 1.92. Something is definitely up.

Can you be more specific?

[Damien]

This is not an isolated incident, I have rules that have worked in previous versions that now do not work after the upgrade to 1.92. Something is definitely up.

Can you be more specific?

Yessir.

Lets say I have a group for the show "Family Guy":

-How it used to work. I set up in groups a filter that ad the rules (assign group to new transfers based on criteria):
[All of the following are true]
[Name contains 'family']
[Name contains 'guy']

anything that matched this criteria would download to say /TV/Family Guy

Prior to 1.92 this worked flawlessly on all of my groups, after the upgrade to 1.92 it is spotty at best, I would say it works 25% of the time and now almost everything just downloads to my default location instead of my group location even though it still puts it in the Family Guy group.

Hope that helps.

[Damien]

I'm going to add onto this: With further investigation, it seems that if a download is a folder with more than 1 file the filters I set up work, but if its is a single file (by itself not inside a folder) the filer does not work.

Thanks

Alright, well edit again. The above assumption is false. It seems that any rule set up in 1.90 and above is just not working, even though they go into the right group the file is not added to the groups folder.

[livings124]

Damien: Are you saying that it still assigns the group color, but not the location? Do you have an incomplete folder set? How are you adding the transfers (torrent file, magnet link, etc)?

[Damien]

Damien: Are you saying that it still assigns the group color, but not the location? Do you have an incomplete folder set? How are you adding the transfers (torrent file, magnet link, etc)?

Yes I am saying that it assigns to the group (color) but not the location. Im sorry I dont know what you mean by incomplete folder set, but I am adding torrents from a watch folder.. not magnet links. AS i say old groups that I made before 1.9x work just fine.

to clarify: the transfer is added to the group, and the group is assigned to transfer to a folder, using some criteria.

which works for all past filters set up the same exact way.. but never ones (added in 1.9x it seems do not work as designed, they are only added to my default download folder and not the designated folder specified as above.

hope that helps and I will help in any way that I can.

Also the .plis shows that the torrent is added to the correct group, but still it will not go to the correct folder:

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		<key>Active</key>
		<true/>
		<key>GroupValue</key>
		<integer>41</integer>
		<key>InternalTorrentPath</key>
		<string>/Users/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/Library/Application Support/Transmission/Torrents/Breaking.Bad.S03E02.xxxxxxxxxxx.torrent</string>
		<key>TorrentHash</key>
		<string>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</string>
		<key>WaitToStart</key>
		<false/>

[livings124]

Try as I might I still can't recreate the bug. Have you tried a nightly build - perhaps the issue has been resolved. http://transmission.xpjets.com/

[Damien]

Try as I might I still can't recreate the bug. Have you tried a nightly build - perhaps the issue has been resolved. http://transmission.xpjets.com/

Cant use nightlies, some trackers dont allow it, ill try to add the groups again after deleting them and see what happens. Thanks for the time and Ill let you know how it goes.

P.S. Is there a plist somewhere that holds these filters?

[livings124]

The plist with with the filters is in ~/Library/Preferences/org.m0k.Transmission. Could you perhaps pause all transfers and try adding in the nightly - the trackers won't ever be announced to.

[Damien]

The plist with with the filters is in ~/Library/Preferences/org.m0k.Transmission. Could you perhaps pause all transfers and try adding in the nightly - the trackers won't ever be announced to.

The plist doesnt seem to hold the filters, I opened it with plist editor and nothing in there to indicate any filter prefs.

I will try the nightly method in the next 24 hours after i try the above by deleting and re adding some of the filters

[Damien]

Neither one of my attempts succeeded, removing and readding nor a nightly version. Next I will try trashing the plist and doing my 40+ filters over.

[Damien]

Ok, after weeks of screwing around and testing and using betas and this and that here's what I came up with:

Torrents added to the watch folder (either automatically [using automatic], or manually) follow the rules and are also downloaded to the correct folder. Those that are added manually via the web interface or via the app itself are added to the correct group but not downloaded to the correct folder (as described above)

That's all I got, hopefully this gives you something to look at. It's frustrating as hell.