If I backup & remove my ~/.config/transmission folder, these are the steps that seem to trigger it:
1) Open transmission and set the download dir to /media/data/torrents (/media/data is my secondary HDD)
download-dir is properly set, incomplete-dir is "/home/alex/6W^?", watch-dir is "/home/alex/home/alex"
A hexdump of the incomplete-dir is:
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000002c0 61 6c 73 65 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 69 6e 63 6f |alse, . "inco|
000002d0 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 2d 64 69 72 22 3a 20 22 2f 68 |mplete-dir": "/h|
000002e0 6f 6d 65 2f 61 6c 65 78 2f 36 57 7f 22 2c 20 0a |ome/alex/6W.", .|
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Sat May 18 21:32:55 2013 error JSON parse failed in /home/alex/.config/transmission/settings.json at pos 535: WEIRD_WHITESPACE -- remaining text "^P^QV^B",
"dow"
Another hexdump after checking the settings:
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000001f0 74 72 75 65 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 64 6f 77 6e |true, . "down|
00000200 6c 6f 61 64 2d 64 69 72 22 3a 20 22 2f 68 6f 6d |load-dir": "/hom|
00000210 65 2f 61 6c 65 78 2f 10 11 56 02 22 2c 20 0a 20 |e/alex/..V.", . |
...
000002c0 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 69 6e 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 | . "incomplet|
000002d0 65 2d 64 69 72 22 3a 20 22 2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 61 |e-dir": "/home/a|
000002e0 6c 65 78 2f 5c 5c 02 22 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 |lex/\\.", . "|
I then tried editing my locale.gen to only be en_US.UTF-8 and regenerated my locales, it didn't seem to help much.
After setting the download location and closing the settings, settings.json reports the correct download-dir (/media/data/torrents), but incomplete-dir is "/home/alex/home/alex".
When reopening the settings to check the download location, it's "(None)" and the message log reads:
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Sat May 18 21:16:38 2013 error JSON parse failed in /home/alex/.config/transmission/settings.json
at pos 535: WEIRD_WHITESPACE -- remaining text "^B",
"downlo"
If you close/open the settings again, the download dir is just my home folder, and in the config, incomplete-dir is set to "/home/alex/@^B" now.
In my backed up config, if I open the settings panel and check the download dir, it's "(None)" again, with this for download-dir:
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000001f0 72 75 65 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 64 6f 77 6e 6c |rue, . "downl|
00000200 6f 61 64 2d 64 69 72 22 3a 20 22 2f 68 6f 6d 65 |oad-dir": "/home|
00000210 2f 61 6c 65 78 2f 40 3d 01 22 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 |/alex/@=.", . |
After a fresh reinstall and config move, I somehow instantly got the locale folder bug (this was with both en_GB and en_US.UTF-8 locales). download-dir was just /home/alex/en_GB.UTF-8 (without even setting it and reopening), incomplete-dir was:
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000002c0 20 66 61 6c 73 65 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 69 6e | false, . "in|
000002d0 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 2d 64 69 72 22 3a 20 22 |complete-dir": "|
000002e0 2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 61 6c 65 78 2f 01 22 2c 20 0a |/home/alex/.", .|
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00000c70 20 20 22 77 61 74 63 68 2d 64 69 72 22 3a 20 22 | "watch-dir": "|
00000c80 2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 61 6c 65 78 2f 5c 22 61 67 7f |/home/alex/\"ag.|
00000c90 22 2c 20 0a 20 20 20 20 22 77 61 74 63 68 2d 64 |", . "watch-d|
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Sat May 18 22:00:43 2013 error JSON parse failed in /home/alex/.config/transmission/settings.json at pos 747: WEIRD_WHITESPACE -- remaining text "^A",
"incomp"
Apologies for the lengthy post, and thanks in advance!