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Lobster

Been using the excellent transmission lately.

In fact downloading 3 or 4 files simultaneously
When those files are uploading (seeding)
where are they kept during the transmission process?

The reason I ask is I notice my 'personal storage file' goes down to 0
and yet adding more storage and then rebooting and restarting transmission
and the same start to happen . . .

Should I right click and 'delete files and remove' in transmission? Will that remove any temp files downloaded?

Puppy seems to have created some files in /sys/block which I suspect may be from Transmission?

Any experts know if Transmission is trying to use ram as a hard disk?

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1470 Location: wales

hi lobster,,

the files uploading are the exact same file you are downloading. Have you checked in the preferences, to see that 'both' the download folder, and the incomplete folder are set out side the savefile? As it's easy to forget about the incomplete one.

666philb

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5457 Location: Finland

Lobster. I have had several times the same problem. Download folder has been outside savefile. Still sometimes savefile is used up. And I havent find any files in savefile, which has taken up the space. I have tried commandline file listings with several +10 Mb - +100Mb settings. No clue.
You can check the contents of /root/.config/transmission. If you havent specified the download folder, you might find something inside that folder which takes space.

And this has happened with transmission only.

I have had to delete the used up savefile.

Lobster · Posted: Wed 16 Feb 2011, 16:07 Post_subject:

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

The Gdmap utility ought to be able to find the culprit files.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1470 Location: wales

in the preferences, have you ticked the box ...."keep incomplete torrents in" and then designated a folder?

666philb

Lobster · Posted: Wed 16 Feb 2011, 21:53 Post_subject:

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1470 Location: wales

I think that the default place that transmission keeps it's incomplete files is in /root/downloads

a search of the 'file system' with 'searchmonkey' (had trouble with pfind) for

Bufaird · Joined: 19 Oct 2012 Posts: 1

Quote: Thanks guys . . . still wondering what is keeping my personal storage file so huge . . . Cool

I've had the same problem... Gdmap showed me that files that Transmission had removed were moved into
/initrd/mnt/dev_save/.Trash_0/files. My save file was freed up once I deleted the contents of that directory.

BTW, shouldn't "emptying the Trash" resolve this?