Thanks, it's certanly relevant thing - so, the problem is in GTK. I have found some funny workaround - after selecting via "other" location just re-select predefined system place and then select desired directory back (without browsing, it's kept)

Same on Ubuntu 12.10, up-to-date package versions. After selecting a directory to store torrent data via browsing it starts downloading into /home/user However, it's able to move data then, but it happens in background without any feedback, so only after a while you can see it has happen. I think pr...