I fixed it following the rename suggestion. The part I always miss is that the commands in the guide I use https://www.howtogeek.com/142044/how-to-turn-a-raspberry-pi-into-an-always-on-bittorrent-box/ are all jumbled together, so I try to run 2 or 3 at the same time and it (of course) doesn't work. ...

When I find this in another 6 months, twice now I've had no luck and ended up wiping the rpi card and reinstalling.

Well I've now either made it better or worse - pi@threesberrypi:~ $ deluged pi@threesberrypi:~ $ [ERROR ] 22:02:11 main:232 There is a deluge daemon running with this config directory! [ERROR ] 22:02:11 main:233 You cannot run multiple daemons with the same config directory set. [ERROR ] 22:02:11 ma...

I'm not really even sure how to search for what's going wrong, so forgive me if I'm missing something basic. Basically, daemon says its running, but thin client can't connect and daemon doesn't do anything and deluged gives an error. Sticky says to list what I'm running: deluged -v deluged: 1.3.10 l...