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Trying to get my transmission-daemon to pick up files from a dropbox folder, to make remote starting easier (it's a headless system).

As far as I can tell, the settings.json file is as expected, but none of the files I place in the folder get picked up.

I have checked that dropbox is syncing correctly.

Here is the whole settings.json file, but the relevant lines are included below:

  "watch-dir": "/home/john/Dropbox/torrents",
  "watch-dir-enabled": true

Update

It appears to be a permissions issue. From /var/log/syslog:

Unable to watch "/home/john/Dropbox/torrents": Permission denied (watch.c:79)

I have tried stopping the daemon -> sudo service transmission-daemon stop -> changing permissions of folder using chown -> sudo chown -R john /home/john/Dropbox/torrents -> restarting daemon -> sudo service transmission-daemon start

Same result, however

Update 2

Permissions for the folder are:

drwsrwsrwx 2 john debian-transmission 4096 2012-04-09 19:40
Mild Fuzz
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The solution is to give your dropbox folder permissions of 775

sudo chmod -R 775 ~/Dropbox
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For those landing here : you must edit /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json instead of the one in ~/.config/transmission

Specifically tested on version 2.92, you have to stop transmission-daemon service before editing the settings.json. Otherwise, upon service restart, all changes made are rolled back. Weird, I know but don't ask me why.

The catch is that the last transmission-daemon folder is permission locked, so edit the settings.json with an absolute url

sudo nano /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

And of course, restart the service

sudo service transmission-daemon restart
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Goufalite
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I had the same issue, but any solution did not help me until I moved torrents folder from external disk to internal. After that everything works just fine!

Dmitriy K
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