denial86
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Transmission: Unable to Save Resume File

Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:32 pm

Dear all,

I have installed Transmission using these instructions as a guide: http://robcaw.com/blog/turn-your-raspbe ... ox-part-2/ on a Raspbian installation (already did update & upgrade).

However, I have a problem. I seemingly have no problem downloading with the exception that the download stops every now and then with the following message: "error: Unable to save resume file: permission denied". However, when I simply resume the download it continues until the next time it stops. This way I can finish my downloads, but it is far from 'automation' I am looking for. Does anyone has any idea what causes this and how I can mend the situation?

evil80
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Re: Transmission: Unable to Save Resume File

Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:56 pm

Hi,

I have exactly the same error.
Did you find any solution to the issue ?

thanks a lot

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penguintutor
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Re: Transmission: Unable to Save Resume File

Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:36 pm

I haven't tried it myself, but my guess is that your resume directory is owned by another user - perhaps 'root'. This may be because the first time it was run it was run using sudo.

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cd ~/.config/transmission

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ls -l 
- should show a 'resume' directory - which needs to be owned by pi

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drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 <datetime> resume
if it's not then

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sudo chown pi:pi resume

I have written a tutorial which may help explain how Linux permissions work: Linux file acces permissions tutorial

wei1000
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Re: Transmission: Unable to Save Resume File

Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:55 pm

Same prolem!Can someone help? :oops:

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Ticalos
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Re: Transmission: Unable to Save Resume File

Sun Nov 06, 2016 7:53 am

Error: Unable to save resume file: Permission denied
Late to the party but I want to share how I got rid of this error:

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sudo chmod 775 /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/resume

jasonwills
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Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:52 am

Re: Transmission: Unable to Save Resume File

Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:59 am

Hello guys,
I'm also facing the same problem.
Can anyone give me the perfect solution?
Thanks in advance

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