Transmission config location is always empty

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I am using OpenWrt 21.02.1 on Linksys EA8300. I've configured transmission to download torrents to my USB-HDD at "/mnt/sda1/transmission/downloads". Also I've changed config directory to "/mnt/sda1/transmission/config". But that config directory is always empty and I lose all my torrents (not an actual data downloaded) after router restart.
How can i fix this?

Here is content of /etc/config/transmission file

config transmission
        option config_overwrite '1'
        option mem_percentage '50'
        option nice '10'
        option alt_speed_enabled 'false'
        option alt_speed_time_enabled 'false'
        option bind_address_ipv4 '0.0.0.0'
        option bind_address_ipv6 '::'
        option blocklist_enabled 'false'
        option cache_size_mb '2'
        option dht_enabled 'true'
        option download_queue_enabled 'true'
        option encryption '1'
        option idle_seeding_limit_enabled 'false'
        option incomplete_dir_enabled 'false'
        option lazy_bitfield_enabled 'true'
        option lpd_enabled 'false'
        option message_level '1'
        option peer_limit_global '240'
        option peer_limit_per_torrent '60'
        option peer_port '51413'
        option peer_port_random_on_start 'false'
        option peer_socket_tos 'default'
        option pex_enabled 'true'
        option port_forwarding_enabled 'true'
        option preallocation '1'
        option queue_stalled_enabled 'true'
        option ratio_limit_enabled 'false'
        option rename_partial_files 'true'
        option rpc_enabled 'true'
        option scrape_paused_torrents_enabled 'true'
        option script_torrent_done_enabled 'false'
        option seed_queue_enabled 'false'
        option speed_limit_down_enabled 'false'
        option speed_limit_up_enabled 'false'
        option start_added_torrents 'true'
        option trash_original_torrent_files 'false'
        option umask '18'
        option upload_slots_per_torrent '14'
        option utp_enabled 'true'
        option scrape_paused_torrents 'true'
        option watch_dir_enabled 'false'
        option download_dir '/mnt/sda1/transmission/downloads'
        option user 'transmission'
        option group 'transmission'
        option config_dir '/mnt/sda1/transmission/config'
        option rpc_bind_address '0.0.0.0'
        option rpc_port '9091'
        option rpc_url '/transmission/'
        option rpc_host_whitelist_enabled 'false'
        option rpc_authentication_required 'false'
        option enabled '1'
        option rpc_whitelist_enabled 'false'
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In regular Linux, transmission stores the config in a json file, in a dir called .config, it's 'hidden' , make sure to check for hidden files and dirs in your config dir.

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The service runs under unprivileged user/group:

Fix owner/permissions across the entire path to the config directory:

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Can you explain me how to do this? I am new to Linux :slight_smile:

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As I understood there is no any permission problem

root@Router:~# ls -l /mnt/sda1/transmission
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root          4096 Dec  5 21:47 config
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root          4096 Dec  7 21:44 downloads

But transmission still doesn't write anything to config directory.

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Problem solved. Transmission daemon must be stopped before changing configuration and then started again. If change configuration first and then restart daemon, transmission will ignore changes.

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