[SOLVED} Persistent "No data found" error

[Banat]

I've run into the error message

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"Error : No data found! Ensure your drives are connected or use "Move Data File To..." To re-download, remove the torrent and re-add it. "

twice recently. First time it was when my USB drive was disconnected when I was running Transmission, and second time when the drive got full. The torrents which were active at that time had the above error.

I'm running Transmission Remote GUI, and I can't get the torrents to restart even when the drive was reconnected and space made. Newly added or older torrents which weren't active at error time work fine.

What I've tried without success:
- restarting Transmission Remote GUI, Transmission and Raspberry Pi running it
- "set file location" on the erroneous files, verifying, stopping, restarting
- chmod 777 on all the files in the torrent directory

These are all magnet files, so the suggested workaround of re-adding them is cumbersome, as I'd have to hunt down the original magnet link from whatever RSS feed I got it from.

edit: the torrents are saved in Transmission config directory where they can be copied back to Transmission, further info in my post below.

[x190]

There should be a copy of the torrent file in your config directory.

[Banat]

There should be a copy of the torrent file in your config directory.

I didn't find them under the torrent folder where I did look, but I found them under /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/torrents I copied them to safety, deleted the torrents from the GUI, moved the torrents from safety to watch directory, and everything is working again

Thank you!