Permission denied error when attempting to download a torrent

[jacksonv1lle]

Hi there.

I am not able to get a torrent to start downloading in qBittorrent . It fails with a 'permission denied' error when attempting to write to the host file system.

Here is the error from qbittorrent.log: (W) 2023-08-14T14:49:58 - File error alert. Torrent: "2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-armhf.img.xz". File: "/mnt/data/torrents/2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-armhf.img.xz". Reason: "2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-armhf.img.xz mkdir (/mnt/data/torrents/2023-05-03-raspios-bullseye-armhf.img.xz) error: Permission denied"

I have an external USB drive mounted in /mnt/data with 777 permissions. There is also a directory called torrents inside the data directory.

I am using these settings in the .env file:

USER_ID=1000
GROUP_ID=1000
TIMEZONE="Europe/London"
DATA_ROOT="/mnt/data"
DOWNLOAD_ROOT="/mnt/data/torrents"

The user and group ids are correctly assigned.

I have noticed a couple of discrepancies that I don't understand. In the qBittorrent section of the Readme it says: Set the default save path to /data/torrents in Settings I guess this should say /mnt/data/torrents right?

Also I noticed that in the qBittorrent section of the docker-compse.yml, it has:

volumes:
  - ./qbittorrent:/config
  - ${DOWNLOAD_ROOT}:/data/torrents

Is the DOWNLOAD_ROOT mapping correct here? In the qbittorrent container documentation they use this:

volumes:
  - /path/to/appdata/config:/config
  - /path/to/downloads:/downloads

You can see that the DOWNLOAD_ROOT should map to /downloads. Is that right?

Thanks in advance

[jacksonv1lle]

I was able to resolve the issue by doing the following:

In the qBittorrent section of the docker-compose.yml file, ensure the DOWNLOAD_ROOT is mapped to /downloads:

volumes:
    - ./qbittorrent:/config
    - ${DOWNLOAD_ROOT}:/downloads

In the the qBittorrent.conf file, ensure Session\DefaultSavePath is set to /downloads

[BitTorrent]
Session\DefaultSavePath=/downloads