Comment 10 for bug 483223

I don't know what to tell you. The default behavior on a Linux distribution should be that qBittorrent is allowed to read and write to folders in the user home directory.

qBittorrent creates .qbittorrent folder in the user home directory and then it expects that this folder content will be writable (which is a reasonable assumption). qBittorrent does not change any folder permission.

As a consequence, I believe that the default configuration of your linux distro is rather strange (if it is really a fresh and clean install).

So, I have the following questions (and then I will see what I can do in qBittorrent):
1. What Linux distribution is this?
2. You are talking about qBittorrent installation process. How are you installing qBittorrent? Manually or are you using provided packages? If so, where did you get them?
3. What is the permission in your home directory?
ls -l /home/ | grep $USER
drwxr-xr-x 110 chris chris 4096 2009-11-16 15:22 chris

4. If you create a directory in your home folder, what is its permission?
mkdir ~/.testfolder
ls -la ~ | grep testfolder
drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2009-11-16 15:33 .testfolder

5. How did you fix the permission manually? What commands did you use (and using which user (sudo or not) ?