On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 03:18:02PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:
> 
> > Josh Grosse <josh@jggimi.net> writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 11:49:49AM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> >>> 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
> >>  
> >> Is `"incomplete-dir-enabled": true,` ?
> >
> > It was false I have changed to true.  But transmission-daemon stills
> > creates /var/transmission/Downloads.  But it also seems to be confused:
> > it does not seems to remember correctly what it has already downloaded
> > and what it has not... Quite a mess.
> 
> Ok so this "confusion" seems to come from the files in the resume folder
> that somehow know where it was downloading previously.  I move them away
> and now with the following in my settings.json:
> 
>     "download-dir": "/somewhere/else",
>     "incomplete-dir": "/somewhere/else",
>     "incomplete-dir-enabled": true,
> 
> transmission-daemon does not recreate /var/transmission/Downloads and
> works as expected.  Thanks.
> -- 
> Manuel Giraud
 
Glad to know you found a root cause!