Comment 11 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?

Is standard distro Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from here:
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/ubuntu-cdimage/releases/karmic/release/ubuntu-9.10-dvd-i386.iso

> 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?

Is from official website: http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php
Im installing as usual. Adding PPA, adding key and then..
"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qbittorrent"

> 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

drwxr-xr-x 58 emce emce 4096 2009-11-16 11:15 emce

>
> 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
>

drwxr-xr-x 2 emce emce 4096 2009-11-16 15:17 .testfolder

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

To edit permissions Im using GNOME Commander v. 1.2.8.3 in normal mode - not admin.

I changed permissions for folder: /home/emce/qBT_dir/ to 770,
for user "emce" and group "emce".
That same for:
/home/emce/.qbittorrent/BT_backup