Download doesnt start

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What version of Chrome are you using? On what operating system?
Chromium Version 26.0.1368.0 (174371)
OSX 10.8.2
What client (version?) are you connecting to? Are you using SSL?
rutorrent 0.8.9 (0.12.9), no SSL
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Add a torrent via rta
2. notification: added successfully
3. torrent doesnt start in webUI. Its in the Pause status. Cant start it :(

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Start automatically?! Pause and no change. Can stop it. If I restart it it 
switches to Pause status.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sent...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2012 at 11:39

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sounds to me like this might be a problem with r(u)torrent's configuration. 
does automatic downloading/changing the status work when you manually add a 
torrent using the rutorrent webui?

Original comment by jul...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2012 at 11:49

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yep,

it works without issues.

Original comment by sent...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2012 at 12:42

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you've not posted your rutorrent version.

your rtorrent is 0.8.9, libtorrent 0.12.9; both of these are slightly old. 
consider upgrading to more current versions. 0.9.3/0.13.3 from git work fine 
for me with RTA and rutorrent 3.3, the recent stable rtorrent/libtorrent 
versions probably work fine as well.

also, have you checked that there's enough disk space on the disk of your 
download folder? does the UNIX user running rtorrent have write access to the 
download folder? does the download folder exist?

Original comment by jul...@gmail.com on 30 Dec 2012 at 2:17

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k i found the problem: i connect via ftp but you need to write the complete 
path in directory even when you connect in "deeper" directory :)

Original comment by sent...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2012 at 2:56

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yep, rutorrent configuration.

Original comment by jul...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2012 at 3:05

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I'm having the exact same issue and I suspect that the same fix would work for 
me, but I'm not sure what the complete path would be. Can anybody help me 
figure that out?  (I'm using a seed.st seedbox, and their WI uses rutorrent 
0.8.9 (0.12.9).)

Original comment by neil.sk...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 3:52

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just shoot them a message and link them to this thread. you're paying for their 
service, i'm sure they'll be happy to give you that information.

Original comment by jul...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 3:56

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I tried that when I was having trouble configuring RTA originally, but they say 
they don't support third-party extensions.  I'm hoping it's something I can 
figure out without them since RTA is such a great tool, but I'm a little 
confused by what the original poster meant by "you need to write the complete 
path in directory even when you connect in "deeper" directory" since I don't 
know much about this stuff. 

When I connect through Filezilla, I can copy the URL for the folder, and it's: 
ftp://myusername@eut2n.seed.st/.rtorrent, but when I copy that to directory in 
RTA options under WebUI Specifics (with https in pace of ftp), I still get the 
"pausing" status.

Original comment by neil.sk...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 6:22

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yeah, it's paused because you can't supply a proper path. if you supply a path 
to r(u)torrent, you need to use the ABSOLUTE path. so, while your ftp's 
RELATIVE path is "/.rtorrent" which means that they're hiding the lower levels 
of the file system (think folders that the .rtorrent folder is in), you 
actually need to give rutorrent/RTA something like "/home/something/.rtorrent".
and i don't think there's any way for you to figure that out without them 
giving you that information.

does it work if you don't supply a folder name (i.e. leave the field empty)? do 
you supply any information when you add torrents manually via rutorrent?

Original comment by jul...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 6:29

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Leaving the field empty did the trick - I hadn't realized it would work at all 
without some kind of path specified there.  Many thanks for the help!

Original comment by neil.sk...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 6:38

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cheers - and consider switching providers, they seem like douches

Original comment by jul...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2013 at 6:47