Cannot delete torrent

[thomasps]

I can download torrents fine, but cannot delete a downloaded file in the directory
/var/hda/files/torrents
It says "Error removing file: permission denied"
In the file properties, under permissions it says as the owner: "transmission - transmission daemon account"

I tried:
chmod -R 775 /var/hda/files/torrents

but it did not help (same error).
What can I do in order to remove/copy etc downloaded files?

[radioz]

Did you use 'su' first?

i.e: 'su chmod -R 775 /var/hda/files/torrents'

Otherwise it might be an ownership problem.

[thomasps]

Did you use 'su' first?

i.e: 'su chmod -R 775 /var/hda/files/torrents'

Otherwise it might be an ownership problem.

Yes I did. I think it is an ownership problem...

[radioz]

Ok, how about posting a few entries from: ls -l /var/hda/files/torrents so we can see the owner/group ids?

I'm not familiar with how transmission is supposed to be set up, but it might be that a new group called 'transmission' was added. Perhaps your user needs to be a member of the transmission group?

[thomasps]

Ok, how about posting a few entries from: ls -l /var/hda/files/torrents so we can see the owner/group ids?

I'm not familiar with how transmission is supposed to be set up, but it might be that a new group called 'transmission' was added. Perhaps your user needs to be a member of the transmission group?

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ls -l /var/hda/files/torrents total 4 drwxrwxr-x 2 transmission transmission 4096 Mar 17 20:05 Nullsoft Winamp Pro v5. 6.1.3091 + KeyGen(fff) [TrT-TcT]

Or if I use Samba (I have Greyhole):

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ls -l /mnt/samba/Torrents total 0 drwxrwx--- 1 thomas users 0 Mar 17 20:05 Nullsoft Winamp Pro v5.6.1.3091 + KeyGe n(fff) [TrT-TcT]

[moncapitaine]

I had the same problem.
On the locally mounted share /mnt/Samba/Transmission the torrent was ownedby the local user.
However, on /var/hda/files/torrents the torrent was owned by user transmission.

Solution:

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chown user torrent

as root in the /var/hda/files/transmission directory.

Then I was able to delete the files with rm.