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Torrent download directly to network drive?
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I haven't used torrents in a very, very long time, but that seems rather odd to me considering everything else I can do with network mounts... How are you mounting the NAS, and what sort of problem/errors are you encountering?
Yeah I only use them sparingly, and usually I'm just downloading to my local client.
This is basically the issue from 2 years ago on lvl1tech forums:
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/its-2024-why-cant-i-easily-save-torrents-to-a-share-drive/206022
For what it's worth, the problem in the linked thread was Flatpak/snap apps that are sandboxed so that they can only access files and folders in your home directory.
I think this is circling the issue.
Are you running the downloader as a sandboxed/containerized app? (Flatpak, snap, etc.)? Those can have weird issues with accessing the file system due to the isolation they implement to try to make things more secure.
Depending on which distro you're running, you might also check to see if there's something going on with SELinux or AppArmor; sometimes those security features, though well-intentioned, can cause cryptic problems. I think you should see an error in dmesg if something like that is going on.
Another thought is that maybe you can try mounting the NAS yourself via command line with the
mountcommand to a simpler path (e.g. to/mnt/nas) rather than using GVFS via the GUI (with it's complicated auto-generated path) in case the download software is doing something dumb with path handling?This is the closest I've come to what might be the issue, but it doesn't necessarily bring me close to solving it. I installed using
sudo apt-get install qbtorrent. I'm on ubuntu at the moment, but I don't stick with any distro for long. I've used pop-os, fedora, ubuntu, mint, kde.I needed ubuntu on this machine because I needed specific versions of ROCm and other packages which would support the 395+ chip/ chipset.
If it's running as a snap, you might be able to configure snap to allow access; I'm not sure how to do that though -- I moved to Mint because I didn't want to deal with snap crap...
Doing some searching, I found this reddit thread which suggests that some of the distro shipped qbtorrent versions aren't very good; people there suggest using the developer's PPA on Ubuntu instead. The developer's site includes instructions for alternate ways to install on various Linux distros.
You could try uninstalling the version you have and then running:
if you're comfortable with the security implications of using their PPA.