Torrent won't go away

[primetime34]

I'm using Transmission on Ubuntu 10.04 and I have a torrent that won't go away. I delete it and the data from the transmission interface. However, every time I restart the computer, the darn thing shows up again!! I have deleted it dozens of times and every time I restart it is back again. How can I get rid of this torrent for good? Thanks.

[rb07]

I can think of two situations:

• You have a watchdir in effect, the .torrent file is there and transmission-daemon loads it every time you don't have the torrent downloaded;
• You added the torrent as another user (probably root) and your current user doesn't have permissions to delete it.

[primetime34]

Well I don't have a watchdir in effect....can I "sudo transmission" to run as superuser and delete that way? That should clear up number 2 right?

[rb07]

Running transmission as root would probably create more problems, the application will create and use separate configuration and download directories... not a solution.

Better just look at the current configuration directory and check the permissions if the "undeletable" torrent is there. Something like 'cd ~/.config/transmission; ls -al torrents resume' ... if the torrent is in one or both of those directories (with a name that includes a hash code) then check the details about owner and write permission, which is the one that controls who can delete it.

I'm making a few assumptions... you are not running transmission-daemon, you are using the GTK+ application, you haven't moved files around, you haven't used the application as different users and tried to 'share' the configuration, you are not deleting by hand and running transmission at the same time.