Solved. I had to chown the folders I wanted deluge to access to the username of the service (deluge:deluge). Worked like a charm afterwards.

Do you mean run chmod -R? Because I did that for /home/user/Downloads but it didn't work. The permissions for the folder are: 'drwxrwxrwx 3 user deluge 4096 May 14 22:31 Downloads'
Or does every folder from / to .../Downloads need the rw permission?

Thanks

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