Running 4.7 Unraid.

 

Goal:

1) Use cache drive for downloading torrents (using Transmission 0.0.2)  [side note: I’ve been using 4.7 with 0.0.2 for years with no trouble at all. I can't upgrade Transmission as latest version is not compatible with 4.7)

2) Have cache drive move the completed torrents onto a share drive (called “torrents”) as per mover schedule

 

Currently the torrents are bypassing the cache drive and going directly to the torrents share.

 

What I have done so far:

 

Created an unmoveable directory within the cache drive (prefixed with “.”)

/mnt/cache/.transmission/downloading (for incomplete torrents)

 

Set these variables inside Transmission (using unmenu package tool)

download-dir:  /mnt/user/torrents/ 

incomplete-dir:  /mnt/cache/.transmission/downloading 

incomplete-dir-enabled:  true

 

What’s happening right now is that when I download a torrent, it appears in mnt/disk1/torrents/download  (this is where I had previously set it to be located prior to my update)

 

I looked in transmission-unmenu-package.conf and it appears as though the settings are saved and correct:

PACKAGE_VARIABLE download-dir||vDOWNLOAD_DIR=/mnt/user/torrents/||The directory files will be downloaded to

PACKAGE_VARIABLE encryption||vENCRYPTION=1||Specify encryption for peers: 0=Off, 1=Preferred, 2=Forced

PACKAGE_VARIABLE incomplete-dir||vINCOMPLETE_DIR=/mnt/cache/.transmission/downloading||Incomplete torrents are kept here while downloading and will be moved to the directory specified when finished

PACKAGE_VARIABLE incomplete-dir-enabled||vINCOMPLETE_DIR_ENABLED=true||Enable the use of the incomplete directory

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

What’s happening right now is that when I download a torrent, it appears in mnt/disk1/torrents/download  (this is where I had previously set it to be located prior to my update)

 

PACKAGE_VARIABLE download-dir||vDOWNLOAD_DIR=/mnt/user/torrents/||The directory files will be downloaded to

 

Is /mnt/user/torrents set to be a cache only share?

 

The user share torrents (/mnt/user/torrents/) will be stored across multiple disks. Unless you set the user share to exclude specific disks or be cache only. Browsing /mnt/disk1/ will show a torrents directory that contains some or all of the same files as browsing /mnt/user/torrents/ if it is not set to cache only.

Well.... Ia am using the transmission plugin on unraid v5.. But I experienced something similar.. Have you rebooted the system ?

 

I had the issue that my settings.json had the correct settings, transmission was restarted but downloads were still going in the wrong dir. A reboot fixed this and it is working like a charm..

 

I made another adaption lateron btw.. I now also place my completed downloads on my cache drive and I have created a daily crontab that moves the downloaded stuff towards the array every night. Added benefit is that the array drive keeps spun except for once a day.

Thanks, guys.  I'm actually away for a few days and when I get back I will try the suggestions. 

 

PS. Yes, I did reboot perviously.  That solved my general cache drive issues (as it was not working at all until I rebooted, and now it works fine)