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[Jurriaan Den Toonder <speedy4104@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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Title:
  Permission denied errors when writing on any target drive

Status in transmission package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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)

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