Permissions issue with migrating from Transmission

[cbr600ds]

Sorry to hijack but I was wondering if someone can help me - probably not - but its a shot

I'm moving from Unraid transmission. I have found the .torrent files but when I try to add it I get a permissions error. Anyone have any clue how to fix?

[ambipro]

Sorry to hijack but I was wondering if someone can help me - probably not - but its a shot

I'm moving from Unraid transmission. I have found the .torrent files but when I try to add it I get a permissions error. Anyone have any clue how to fix?

I've moved you to your own thread, as hijacking and necro'ing threads isn't really how things should be done.

You'd need to fix the permissions, normally unraid runs containers as the PUID and PGID of 99:100 (nobody:users) - and unless the container doesn't support specifying user permissions for the process, its typically root. This is likely what happened.

What I would suggest doing is using the "cp" command in unraid's terminal to make copies of all the torrent files first to a separate directory - so you don't break things or anything for transmission if you ever need it again.

After this, you'll need to find out what your container is using, if you're using linuxserver or binhex, the default should already be 99:100 (you can check the variables in the container template) - the problem would likely be with what your transmission container was previously using then.

Simple run "chown -R 99:100 /path/to/copy/of/torrent/files/you/made" and it should correct these permissions.

If it does not, then you'll have to figure out who owns the torrent files and their permission ("ls -al" will show you) and then correct them to match the deluge container's ownership.

[cbr600ds]

Thanks for moving sorry about that -

Ok now permissions have been fixed. I can add a file now - but for some reason its not automatically checking and trying to do force recheck does nothing. It still seems like its looking in the incomplete folder and not the complete folder. I've got over 450 torrents that I'd like to keep seeding so...any thoughts? I thought I could move to the complete folder and try a force recheck but that didn't seem to work.

Tried checking file name for any spaces at the end but that didn't seem to be the issue.

[ambipro]

Unless you renamed the files in Transmission itself, and they aren't the original torrent names, you shouldn't really need to do anything other than mount the same volume and make sure those permissions were also set appropriately.

If it doesn't appear to be that simple to you, you can join our discord and I can help you there.

https://discord.gg/X6yhJE6ZTr