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wizodd (wizodd-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 518692] Re: Often, the display will tell me that the torrent is a file when it is really a folder...

Is there a way to pull the torrent (.torrent) file from Transmission
directly? I'm not sure where the .torrent file is stored....

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:47 AM, charles <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi wizodd,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this issue and make Ubuntu better.
>
> I've never seen that behavior before. Could you mail me the address of
> a public tracker torrent that shows this behavior?
>
> --
> Often, the display will tell me that the torrent is a file when it is
> really a folder...
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518692
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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> Status in “transmission” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: transmission
>
> Not muchto add.
>
> When a torrent is done, I often take a look at the contents to see what is
> actually there...I do this by opening the containing folder if it's a
> folder, and by searching the download location if it is a file.
>
> Often I open a folder and instead of getting a subfolder in downloads I get
> the downloads folder as the torrent was actually a folder contaning a
> single(?) file.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> CheckboxSubmission: 03470ed937a044d79ec5cfa41f843b74
> CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
> Date: Mon Feb 8 00:34:05 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/transmission
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: transmission-gtk 1.75-0ubuntu2.2
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
> SourcePackage: transmission
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
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