Transmission-daemon not picking up on watch directory

Solution 1:

The solution is to give your dropbox folder permissions of 775

sudo chmod -R 775 ~/Dropbox

Solution 2:

For those landing here : you must edit /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json instead of the one in ~/.config/transmission

Specifically tested on version 2.92, you have to stop transmission-daemon service before editing the settings.json. Otherwise, upon service restart, all changes made are rolled back. Weird, I know but don't ask me why.

The catch is that the last transmission-daemon folder is permission locked, so edit the settings.json with an absolute url

sudo nano /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

And of course, restart the service

sudo service transmission-daemon restart