As a messy short-term workaround, I've been able to change the save-to location by picking 'other' from the drop-down box in preferences, selecting the desired folder (e.g. Downloads), and editing the 'Location' string to make sure there's no suffix at the end (e.g. 'Downloads', not 'Downloads/xxx'). Then pressing ok.
For me, if the string isn't edited manually it auto-completes to the nested folder, so even if the Downloads folder is clicked on, the location string becomes 'Downloads/xxx' where x is the destination folder of the previously added torrent. Hope that makes sense. The same steps also work for moving an individual torrent through the right-click->'set location' dialog. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to transmission in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071578 Title: Transmission starts saving to a folder within Downloads and will not allow me to select another folder to save to Status in “transmission” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When using Transmission, I do not modify the default setting 'Save to Location', it should still be set to Downloads. But, if I download a torrent that creates a folder within Downloads, or make an empty folder myself, Transmission changes the Save-to location to this folder. The drop down in Preferences is not responsive, I click Downloads but it goes back to saying the name of whichever folder it has selected. Selecting 'Other' and choosing the folder from within the dialogue changes nothing. I have deleted ~/.config/transmission. This did not solve the problem, it occurred again as soon as there was a folder within my Donwloads dir. What is expected to happen: Transmission saves all files and folders into Downloads and this setting does not change. What is happening: Transmission saves files into any folder it can find within Downloads. It changes the setting in Preferences and does not allow it to be changed back. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: transmission-gtk 2.61-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 25 21:01:49 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: transmission UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-18 (37 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/1071578/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
