Hello again Alexandre, correction. It seems to be starting the torrents correctly after download, that's after I changed the start_paused to false and restarted. So feel free to close the bug. Sorry for the trouble. W
On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM Francis Bonaparte < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Alexandre. About the _ for - names, I didn't see the underscore > ones in the manual. That explains that. > > I just read the notes about start_paused. I set it to start_paused as > false because I thought that would fix this behaviour: > > I have this behaviour, that after a torrent has downloaded (100%) it > goes into the paused state and doesn't start seeding. > But starting to seed after downloading was the previous default > behaviour (Transmission 3.0). > Now, it isn't. I have to manually resume the torrents for them to > seed. There doesn't seem to be a configuration setting for this. I thought > it was this start_paused. > > Thanks, W > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM Alexandre Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> > * I upgraded to the 4.1.0 version of the transmission-daemon as part >> of an upgrade to trixie. >> > * I used my previous settings.json file and found that entries like: >> start-paused now appear >> > as start_paused. These settings seem to be new to this version of >> transmission-daemon, viz. >> > >> > "preferred_transport": "utp", >> > "proxy_url": "", >> > "sequential_download": false, >> > "start_paused": false, >> >> I see the inconsistency in the naming, but this is documented[1]. >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blame/main/docs/Editing-Configuration-Files.md >> >> > * The start_paused setting when set to false for either the >> underscore version of the dash >> > version has no effect. >> > * It isn't clear from the manual what this new setting does, but the >> behaviour is different from >> > the previous version. In this version, when a torrent is complete, >> it pauses. >> >> This is inconsistent with the documentation: >> >> start_paused: Boolean (default = false) Pause the torrents when daemon >> starts. >> >> start-paused (with dash) does not exist. >> >> Please clarify what needs fixing: docs? setting not working? Other? >> >> Alex >> >
