Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:

> Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 11:43:35PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote:
>>> Attached is a diff for the most recent beta, released today.
>>> Tested on amd64.
>>
>> Thanks, committed.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm used to set transmission's download directory to another place.  For
> this, I modified
> /var/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json with the
> following (while transmission-daemon is turned off):
>
>     "download-dir": "/somewhere/else",
>     "incomplete-dir": "/somewhere/else",
>
> But now, when I restart transmission-daemon, it does not seem to care
> and recreate "/var/transmission/Downloads" to start downloading into it.

Maybe this has to do with the important notice here:
https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Editing-Configuration-Files.md#gtk--daemon--cli
-- 
Manuel Giraud