Recently I encountered a problem downloading torrents, and I'm posting this thread so that it may help someone else.
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For some reason, all of the newer torrents I had added would start, and then after a few seconds they would automatically pause. Each one said- Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a powerful, yet lightweight BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing.
- Transmission is an open source, volunteer-based project. Unlike some BitTorrent clients, Transmission doesn’t play games with its users to make money. Uses fewer resources than other clients; Native Mac, GTK+ and Qt GUI clients.
My first thought was this was a tracker issue, and I needed to be registered with them. However, this was happening with a bunch of torrents, and they were downloaded from sites that I've never had a problem with before. I had 2 torrents that were still functioning just fine. I searched the Torrent site's forums, and then searched the Transmission forums, but there was no answer.
I didn't realize at that time that this was only occurring with the newer torrents.
After a few days, for unrelated reasons, I was messing with the permissions for my external drives. I set them all to ignore ownership on this volume. When I opened Transmission and hit Resume, all the torrents began downloading normally. After thinking about it, I remembered I had changed the permissions a few days before, as I was diagnosing a system issue.