So, that title is probably extremely confusing. I know I can access the Transmission files on my hard drives in my WD My Cloud drive, but the torrent files I’m looking for don’t appear to be there, so I want to access its OS files. I don’t want to edit them. I just want to copy a specific file used by Transmission to my PC.
I’ve found that I can SSH into this device, but I can’t seem to find any of the .torrent files I’m looking for. Even though the Linux terminal allows me to see the system files, it seems to be utterly incapable of searching for files.
After a grueling and tedious search through my filesystem with close to 1000 ls calls, I’ve finally found it. Transmission’s .torrent files are located in mnt/HD/HD_a2/Nas_Prog/Transmission/config/torrents.
SSHing into there, you would have to cd backwards two directories with cd ../../ before cding into that. You can also type cd ../../mnt/HD/HD_a2/Nas_Prog/Transmission/config/torrents. I’m assuming you’re starting in home/root/. If you don’t start there, hopefully you can get there with cd. All you really need to do is to cd to the topmost directory. If this is too confusing for you, you should not be SSHing into your NAS. I wish there was a way to access these files in read only mode.
scp <name of torrent> larry@<my PC's IP address>:R:\Temp (where R:\ is my RAM disk) resulted in a connection refused error. As I didn’t want to add a potential vulnerability to my computer by opening it up to SSH access, I used WinSCP to copy over the desired file.
