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Permission denied when downloading with transmission daemon

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I installed Xubuntu and transmission daemon, set the download path to my home/user/TV shows, and get a permission denied when trying to download torrents through the transmission.

I tried chmod -r 777 on this folder without success.

Please help!

Following is the output of ps -ef | grep transmission

chen@htpc:~$ ps -ef | grep transmission

109       1023     1  1 21:46 ?        00:00:35 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info



chen@htpc:~$ ps aux | grep transmission

109       1023  3.2  0.4  47684 16620 ?        Ssl  21:46   1:20     /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info

chen      1852  0.0  0.0   4200   772 pts/0    S+   22:27   0:00 grep --color=auto transmission



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answered 3 Years ago piscen · Accepted Answer

Assuming the path to the download folder is /home/chen/TV shows, run the following:

add chen to the debian-transmission group

sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission chen

change the folder ownership

sudo chgrp debian-transmission /home/chen/TV shows

grant write access to the group
```
sudo chmod 770 /home/chen/TV shows
```

Stop the deamon with
```
sudo service transmission-daemon stop
```

The last thing to do is change the file creation mask, so that the downloaded files would be writeable by chen.
```
sudo nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
```
… and change "umask": 18 to "umask": 2. Hit Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to exit.

Start the daemon with

sudo service transmission-daemon start