Transmission Remote -> Move torrent data : Empty Select box

[ioanonimu]

Hello guys,

I'm new to linux and very new to transmission, I installed the version 2.12 (2.21 failed to install on my centos) and I'm using transmission remote from a windows PC. I got some help on IRC and I changed the setings to not autostart the new torrents, but when I right click the torrent and press the Move Torrent data I get an empty select box, can someone tell me if I can edit the setings and add a list of folders that should be available in that select box ?

Thank you.

[rb07]

I'm using transmission remote from a windows PC... when I right click the torrent and press the Move Torrent data I get an empty select box

Looks like whatever "transmission remote" is (a 3rd party application?) it doesn't do what you want to do.

can someone tell me if I can edit the setings and add a list of folders that should be available in that select box ?

No, there is no such thing as adding locations, the open panel could let you navigate... but have you realized that you are looking from the daemon (running on your CentOS) point of view? Since it is not a local file system you cannot navigate, but have to write the whole path from memory.

The same thing happens with Transmission-Qt running on Windows and connected to a remote session. The option is not called "Move Torrent Data" but "Set Location..." and has the same function. With a remote session you only get a text field for the location, and as I said, since it is the daemon that is going to do the move it has to be to a location where the daemon has access, and no navigation is available (the daemon is not a file system browser).

[ioanonimu]

thank you rb07, indeed transmission remote is 3rd party app http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-dotnet/

I attached a print screen to see the menu I'm talking about. And as I noticed that it remembers the path I already written maybe it's not that complicated to write the paths to all my common folders , but I have to do it on 2 - 3 computers and it will be a nice feature to have the paths written in the config, and than just to select from one of the configured paths

I know I can't navigate to my windows folders, but I have some local folders where I regularly save downloads , like /home/Downloads, /home/Temporary and some cifs shares like /mnt/Movies.GENRE .. or /mnt/Music

[blacke4dawn]

Since it's a 3rd party app it doesn't really belong here. There is nothing in the transmission daemon that will send (or even store) such "settings" to a client so they have to store it for them selfs, which means you should ask the developer of that client.

[Jordan]

ioanonimu, the other two posters are right, this is probably something you'd have to ask the transmission-remote-dotnet authors about.

[ioanonimu]

Thank you guys for your answers, but I though transmission-daemon has an option to send a list with "favorite directories" to any client connects to it. But if it doesn't have this feature, everything is clear now I will have to write myself every path once, in every remote app, so the app gives me the list to chose from when I add a new torrent to it.

[Jordan]

Nope, transmission-daemon doesn't have that feature iirc.

[rb07]

Just to clarify my comment above... "there is no such thing as adding locations", like Jordan said the daemon doesn't have that feature, but I just learned that Transmission-Qt does have it: in the Open Torrent panel there is a favorites section, you just do grab and drop to put something there.

In Windows it looks like this:

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[ioanonimu]

On Transmission Remote it looks like this the image bellow, if you write once every folder, the remote remembers all of them and you have the option there, available in the drop-down list. Is it ok, I only have to write once the folders.