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Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client

Transmission is a client for and . It is available as a Mac, GTK+ or Qt GUI client and features a web and a terminal interface as well.

It is included as the default BitTorrent client on several Linux distributions, including .

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How do you set a password for transmission-daemon, the BitTorrent client server?

The config file is ambiguous, and keeps getting overwritten when you restart the daemon in Debian, anyway. In /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json, there are these options: rpc-username rpc-password proxy-auth-username proxy-auth-password Every…
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Is it possible to retrieve magnet link via transmission-remote?

I'm running torrents on the home server, and I talk to home server via the transmission-remote utility. I'd like to retrieve the magnet link for one of my torrents, however this seems to be impossible, as the transmission-remote -t[torrent-id] -i…
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How to change/add a tracker to a .torrent file using the command line?

I use transmission-daemon on Debian for my torrents. For now, I've been using the website http://torrenteditor.com/ to add trackers to .torrent files. I'd like to edit .torrent files directly using Linux command line, and change the associated…
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Transmission-daemon not picking up on watch directory

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…
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Is it possible run Transmission daemon and Qt/GTK GUI at once in sync?

The title is the question. Originally this Ubuntu machine was meant to be headless, but I installed LXDE. Usually Transmission is run by the default GTK+ GUI. Instead of making sure the daemon runs instead of the GUI I'd prefer to have the GUI and…
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Permission denied problem in Freenas + Transmission

Running Freenas 0.7.2 (5543) and Transmission 2.11 The problem it that i can not save a torrent where ever i want.. For example... I can save in: /nmt/1-500gb/Tv/dexter but i can not save in /nmt/4-1000gb/tv/Lost When i try to save in the lost…
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transmission file selection with magnet links

Is it possible to select which files to download with transmission-cli(or daemon) when using magnet links? Maybe it is somehow possible to convert first to .torrent file and then continue with selected files?
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How to have more than five torrents downloading concurrently with transmission?

I've installed transmission on my Raspbmc distro and it's been working great. The only thing I've noticed is that it can only download five torrents concurrently; anything after that is queued. I've tried running transmission-remote -h and looking…
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Transmission-Daemon does not upload, but can download

I have just installed transmission-daemon on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (Jessie). When adding a torrent to the web interface, downloading works at high speeds, but it doesn't upload anything at all. For the torrent file I'm using, there should…
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What does the "blocklist" do in Transmission? Does it affect download speed?

In Transmission bittorrent client, there is an option to "enable blocklist", which has over 200,000 rules. I've tried searching but haven't found anything saying what the blocklist actually does. Who is it blocking? And why might you need to block…
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transmission-daemon web 403 forbidden

Using transmission-daemon on a Raspberry Pi with Respbian, I always get 403 Forbiden when I try to visit RPi_IP:9091/transmission/ from another computer via local network. My settings.json: "rpc-authentication-required": false, "rpc-bind-address":…
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How do I migrate my Transmission state & settings to another user account?

Suppose I want to migrate my transmission configuration settings and current "state" (which torrents are active, which are paused, etc.) - from one user account to another, either on the same machine or another machine. What actions do I need to…
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Transmission asks if there is another version of transmission running

I have recently installed transmission daemon, while trying to config my user settings from the commadline, i noticed this line. [04:07:41.304] Couldn't bind port 51413 on 0.0.0.0: Address already in use (Is another copy of Transmission already…
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How can I "fix" my transmission-gtk state after having moved the download directory?

Suppose you use the transmission-gtk BitTorrent client (v2.94) on a Linux system to seed some files, e.g. Linux distribution ISOs and LibreOffice versions. Suppose that the basic "Save To Location" is: /path1/torrents and the incomplete torrents…
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How do I find torrents which are no longer registered on the tracker?

When a particular torrent is removed from the tracker, I can see that if I open the "Properties" dialog and look a the "Trackers" tab in Transmission: there is an error message saying it is "not registered". However, this apparently is not an error,…
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