yes, giving -x permission to the parent directory solved my issue.
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So i've made 'some progress' When i change the download path to var/lib/deluge/downloads, the downloading starts. Only when i try to download to /home/<user>/Downloads, it fails. Eventhough Downloads has been given Deluge as owner. So might be my lack of linux knowledge, but because delmuge has no p...

Hi, I'm new to Ubuntu (22.04); installed Deluge. This worked fine. From the GTK client i was able to download. Next i followed these instructions to install the deamon as a service and web UI. https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how-to/systemd-service.html I also added my own user to the deluge ...