Download torrents to hdd permissions

Asked 7 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 20k times. Improve this question. StarShire StarShire 2 2 gold badges 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. TL;DR: What user are you logging in with and would like to run the deluge daemon at boot? Once the drive is mounted, we need to create the folders and setup permissions on those newly created files and folders with the right user and settings.

Now, this can go down several different roads because your external drive may need the partitions created and formatted The unfortunate thing about the howtogeek article you used to setup deluge, made a lot of assumptions about previous articles that should've been read to make sense of the current article, which is never a good idea in writing.

I use systemd to manage my startup scripts, and I use my main user for deluge. Improve this answer. Christopher Johnson Christopher Johnson 4 4 bronze badges.

For Reference, one can try to: chmod -R yourdownloaddir as StarShire did start deluge with umask see google manually restart deluge If the last works for you, probably add these automated scripts to your system.

Those scripts are positively hideous! Please do elaborate on you umask solution, that's interesting, but find some other way to script the restart is necessary! Bex: I'll probably look into it some time. Did you vote down because it isn't clean? Yes, I voted it down to signify that I don't recommend using that script. Edit it, and I will probably change my vote. Now I know what fstab is. But I still have the same problem with the permissions of the directory while using Deluge.

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Question feed. Ask Ubuntu works best with JavaScript enabled. Accept all cookies Customize settings. By pattyclub , March 31, in Troubleshooting Mac. I can't download torrent file with folder to external hard dive. And it show "Error no such file or directory" if it com with out folder it download perfectly fine and I already change my download location to my external hard drive , what should I do?

Make sure that you have permissions to write to that particular external drive or directory. To check this, open a new Finder window and select the external HDD. Thanks will change all download locations to a dir in home folder! I am downloading it in a external HDD. I have everything saved on that drives. My folders, documents, music, videos. Lekensteyn Lekensteyn k 61 61 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Community Bot 1.

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