On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 11:49:49AM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote: > Manuel Giraud <[email protected]> writes: > > > Antoine Jacoutot <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 11:43:35PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > >>> Attached is a diff for the most recent beta, released today. > >>> Tested on amd64. > >> > >> Thanks, committed. > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm used to set transmission's download directory to another place. For > > this, I modified > > /var/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json with the > > following (while transmission-daemon is turned off): > > > > "download-dir": "/somewhere/else", > > "incomplete-dir": "/somewhere/else", > > > > But now, when I restart transmission-daemon, it does not seem to care > > and recreate "/var/transmission/Downloads" to start downloading into it. > > Maybe this has to do with the important notice here: > https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Editing-Configuration-Files.md#gtk--daemon--cli > -- > Manuel Giraud Is `"incomplete-dir-enabled": true,` ?
I have been testing a different incomplete-dir problem[0], and I use either -daemon's command line options, or use -qt connected to -daemon, to set the .json entries. [0] https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/7998
