Josh Grosse <josh@jggimi.net> writes:

[...]

> All of the settings files and directories are created by the application
> with defaults, if they don't already exist in the user's
> $HOME/.config/transmission-daemon/ directory.  The _transmission userid,
> used with the transmission_daemon control script, is just another user, with
> a $HOME of /var/transmission, so it's provisioning directory is
> /var/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/.

Ok.

> As you stated, there was an ongoing resume, so the cause might have
> been something in the resume/ subdirectory, or, it might have been
> something in the project's snake_case transition from b4 to b5.

I think it is the latter.  Hopefully, this will be sorted out upstream
before the next OpenBSD release.  Thanks for your help.
-- 
Manuel Giraud