Transmission downloads.. where are they?

I’m a complete noob with the EX4100 (I only got it yesterday) and NAS in general, so forgive me if there’s an obvious answer to this…

I’ve configured my two 6Tb drives in JBOD formation (I’m not storing anything particularly valuable, and favour space over redundancy) and created two shares for ‘Drive 01’ and ‘Drive 02’, so I can access them from Finder and reorganise their contents independently.

I’ve installed Transmission, which is downloading to its default ‘Transmission’ folder on the ‘Public’ share. My first question is, where do the downloaded files exist in my two-drive set-up? Moving files around on an individual drive is instantaneous, but moving them from the ‘Public’ share to a location on either of the two drives takes an age…

I thought I might create a folder called ‘Downloads’ on ‘Drive 02’, and change the download destination using ‘Set Location’ in Transmission from the default (/mnt/HD/HD_a2/Public/Transmission) to there (/mnt/HD/HD_a2/Downloads). But when I did, and the download had completed, the ‘Downloads’ folder was empty!

I’ve searched as best I can, and can’t seem to find the files… Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Hopefully an experienced User will be able to assist.

Hi @Tom_Turner,

Going to ask the obvious question here, but did you stop and restart Transmission after making the changes ? Transmission sometimes only picks up these changes when it is restarted.

Cheers,

JediNite

Hi JediNite,

I didn’t, but presumably the files would’ve then gone to their original location, in the ‘Shared’ folder…

I’m kinda getting used to the whole set-up now - I use ‘Internal Backup’ to move files from the ‘Shared/Transmission’ folder to either "Drive 01’ or ‘Drive 02’, which is relatively quick. Using Finder, I guess it was going via the router, at wireless speeds. It’s a bit laborious, but…

Hey @Tom_Turner,

You could also look at enabling SSH and then using the bash command line to move your files around as well. Not sure if that is any easier then what you are doing especially if you are not a Linux user already.

Cheers,

JediNite