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I'm using rtorrent and have several torrents successfully downloaded with it. However I have one torrent that doesn't want to start downloading. At first it said

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Could not create directory "./torrentdirectory" File not found

(or something to that effect). So I removed the torrent from rtorrent and tried to load it again after manually creating then chmod 777 the directory. Now it says

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Could not open file "./torrentdirectory/torrentfile.avi" No such file or directory

I've tried searching on google and could only find a few posts about the problem, and those all appear to have tried chmod 777 but with no luck either

edit: weird, so I just nano torrentfile.avi, wrote the blank text, then chmod 777 and it started right up. So I guess this is solved lol

edit2: err the file started downloading but then rtorrent crashed >:( I'll try running it without screen this time so I can see why it crashed

edit3: well I restarted rtorrent and reloaded the file and after a hash check and being only 30% done it went ahead and finished the other 70%. I installed utorrent though aptitude but it didn't have put a ~/.rtorrent.rc file and rtorrent mentions this on startup. Could this be the reason for the issue?