transmission and folders ownership

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Original post from the forum:

Problem:
> I installed transmission, everything works but I have trouble 
> accessing the files "in progress" and "finished" from Windows. 
> Obviously, it's probably a permission problem. In directories rules, 
> the files have the owner "root" and user "network" (automatically 
> modified by transmission). I change the "owner", but the transmission 
> still recovering to root. I tried to add my user in the group 
> "network" and it does'nt work. I saw somewhere that I have to set the 
> umask to 0. But, it makes no difference. 

Solution:
1-You have to set transmission internal umask in file 
 /var/lib/transmission/settings.json, as in: 

    "trash-original-torrent-files": false, 
    "umask": 0, 
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14, 


This should work for new downloads, only. 


2-For old ones use Directory Setup->Permissions 
on transmission Finished directory so that 
-"Other Users" can read and write and browse 
-"check Apply recursively to subdirectories" 
submit. 


With both methods everybody can do whatever they want to files, sorry :( 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 27 Oct 2011 at 6:52

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Fixed for transmission-2.42 (setting umask to 0, not a real fix!)

Not closing to remember doing a real fix

Original comment by [e-mail] on 28 Feb 2012 at 5:03

• Changed state: Started

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now fixed in svn (for transmission-2.52).

Users must belong to BT group to write/modify/remove files; other users are 
still able to read files.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 1 Jun 2012 at 3:42

• Changed state: Fixed