Permission Denied

[thelolocaust]

Just wanted to post this solution to this super irritating problem. I have an external drive attached via a USB hub to my macbook pro

OSX 10.6.6

Transmission 2.20 (11841)

Anyway often what happens is for no apparent reason transmission invents a FOLDER with the same name as my external disk. This magic folder doesn't really seem to exist, can't be seen in finder and everything trying to go to it has permission denied. I end up having to go into preferences and changing where torrents go, and where incomplete torrents are stored back to the DISK with the correct name instead of the imaginary folder. Sometimes I have to "Move Data To" the DISK because it is defaulting to its imaginary folder.

It does this all by itself, often with no warning or reason. I wish I could lock the folder somehow or ban transmission from inventing this imaginary folder for it to not download my torrents into.

So annoying.

[thelolocaust]

Yeah, that's what does it. I don't know why the hdd unmounts by itself, but it would be nice if transmission wouldn't change my default settings based on what the HDD does.

[thelolocaust]

what's that?

[thelolocaust]

There it is, see the Folder 774111112 2? my drive is named 774111112 it made a clone folder, that doesn't exist, isn't a volume and says permission denied. Super Cool. Now to fix my torrents I have to move the data files back to 774111112 volume. It does this all by itself while I sleep.

[BivalentZs]

Just want to throw out that I'm having the same issue. Been saving to the same external hard drive for years but just the other day I noticed my hard drive was disconnected/ejected. So I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it popped back up. But then everything downloading to it I would in turn get the permission denied errors. I tried lots of things. Checked if it's readable and writeable and both were accurate. I'm moving everything off now to reformat it and see if that helps. But for fun I tried downloading straight to my desktop and still get the same error. So I'm starting to think it's not the hard drive at all.

So if anyone ever figures something out and/or a the bug gets fixed. I'd like to hear it. Thanks.

[thelolocaust]

Just want to throw out that I'm having the same issue. Been saving to the same external hard drive for years but just the other day I noticed my hard drive was disconnected/ejected. So I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it popped back up. But then everything downloading to it I would in turn get the permission denied errors. I tried lots of things. Checked if it's readable and writeable and both were accurate. I'm moving everything off now to reformat it and see if that helps. But for fun I tried downloading straight to my desktop and still get the same error. So I'm starting to think it's not the hard drive at all.

So if anyone ever figures something out and/or a the bug gets fixed. I'd like to hear it. Thanks.

Hey just for laughs, try opening
Transmission
Preferences
Transfers
and check that the default location and keep incomplete files in are set to the correct drive, then do the move torrent data to/check local data options on the transfers once you fix that.

I suspect your default location and incomplete files options got changed.

[garnercx]

I had a similar problem to this as well.

The issue turned out to be that my downloads directory was still pointing to a drive that wasn't connected. I could tell, because every time I tried to start a new torrent, the old drive mount point would appear in /Volumes and I'd delete it again.

Simply re-selecting the correct download location on the correct drive in preferences fixed the issues.

Prior to discovering this I spent about 2 hours mucking around with permissions, ACLS and extended attributes. I learnt a lot, but that wasn't related to the issue