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Bug#1103416: Transmission 4.1 beta shredding local data

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  Bug#1103416: Transmission 4.1 beta shredding local data Stephan Verbücheln <verbuecheln@posteo.de> - 2025-04-17 12:10 +0200
    Bug#1103416: Transmission 4.1 beta shredding local data "Alexandre Rossi" <niol@zincube.net> - 2025-04-17 14:00 +0200

#1242427 — Bug#1103416: Transmission 4.1 beta shredding local data

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Package: transmission-gtk
Version: 4.1.0~beta2+dfsg-2

For a few weeks, I was seeding some rare torrents with Transmission
4.0. After the update to 4.1 beta, Transmission started to “verify
local data”, discarded the torrent data and started downloading from
scratch.

 * I am using Transmission GTK in Gnome.
 * At the time, I was seeding five torrents with multiple files,
   totalling around 200 GB.
 * The filesystem is ext4 (within LUKS on SSD).
 * The location is ~/Downloads/Torrents/, which was configured to be
   the default location in Transmission.

Unfortunately, I have not identified the root cause and I cannot
provide examples for privacy reasons. I filed this bug anyway to raise
awareness and block migration to Trixie.

Regards
Stephan

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Hi,

> For a few weeks, I was seeding some rare torrents with Transmission
> 4.0. After the update to 4.1 beta, Transmission started to “verify
> local data”, discarded the torrent data and started downloading from
> scratch.

Sorry to hear that.

I've been using 4.1.0~beta2 for 3 months and it has worked well for me.

I have one 8 Gib torrent which transmission insisted on downloading most parts
again arguing invalid data, but this was not automatic and I had to ask to
"Verify local data" before any data shredding happeneded.

Other torrents, from 3 Gib to 163 Gib, have been downloaded with earlier
versions and have been well since.

Could you provide an anonymized log have what happeneded?

I cannot find any issue referring to something similar upstream, but probably
beta versions do not get much testing.

Will raise severity if I get another report on this, but without logs,
it is difficult to have a hint about what might have happened for you.

Thanks,

Alex

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