Permission denied errors when writing on any target drive

[Irios]

When opening a magnet link or a torrent file, I get the chance to specify where do I want the downloads to be put. However, no matter what disk or directory is chosen, after receiving around 4M (probably when it tries to write to disk for the first time) the download finishes with an error "Error: Permission denied (intended_path_to_file)".

I have ensured that the user has write permission (touch intended_path works OK). I have tried to save on my home directory as well as to NTFS partitions, with the same results. I have also tried different torrents and magnets.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: transmission-gtk 2.50-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 19 19:54:37 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/transmission-gtk
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120316)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: transmission
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Nick (ntzaperas)]

Anyone know a workaround? Transmission is completely useless with this bug.

[Nick (ntzaperas)]

I did a fresh install of 12.04, but kept my home directory intact. After quitting transmission, completely removing my transmission settings folder and starting transmission again, I no longer get this error.

rm -rf ~/.config/transmission/

I should have moved it aside, rather than remove it, so I could see what setting was causing the error. I'm guessing something to due with the download location even though I was saving everything to my home directory and still getting this error.

[Andras Muranyi (muranyia)]

Inspired by Nick's tip I've renamed ~/.config/transmission/settings.json and ~/.config/transmission/dht.dat but kept resume and torrents folders intact. The error is gone.

[Jurriaan Den Toonder (speedy4104)]

I know this is an old thread, but this bug was also affecting me on Ubuntu 15.10.

Removing ~/.config/transmission/ also fixed the problem for me