Transmission starts saving to a folder within Downloads and will not allow me to select another folder to save to

[Mark Paskal]

When using Transmission, I do not modify the default setting 'Save to Location', it should still be set to Downloads. But, if I download a torrent that creates a folder within Downloads, or make an empty folder myself, Transmission changes the Save-to location to this folder. The drop down in Preferences is not responsive, I click Downloads but it goes back to saying the name of whichever folder it has selected. Selecting 'Other' and choosing the folder from within the dialogue changes nothing.

I have deleted ~/.config/transmission. This did not solve the problem, it occurred again as soon as there was a folder within my Donwloads dir.

What is expected to happen:
    Transmission saves all files and folders into Downloads and this setting does not change.

What is happening:
     Transmission saves files into any folder it can find within Downloads. It changes the setting in Preferences and does not allow it to be changed back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: transmission-gtk 2.61-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 25 21:01:49 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: transmission
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-18 (37 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Elliot Marsden (elliot-marsden)]

As a messy short-term workaround, I've been able to change the save-to location by picking 'other' from the drop-down box in preferences, selecting the desired folder (e.g. Downloads), and editing the 'Location' string to make sure there's no suffix at the end (e.g. 'Downloads', not 'Downloads/xxx'). Then pressing ok.

For me, if the string isn't edited manually it auto-completes to the nested folder, so even if the Downloads folder is clicked on, the location string becomes 'Downloads/xxx' where x is the destination folder of the previously added torrent.

Hope that makes sense. The same steps also work for moving an individual torrent through the right-click->'set location' dialog.

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

I have the same bug too, but I believe #915165 describes the same problem more accurately. Hence I mark this one as a duplicate.