Transmission never gets the magnets or torrent files

[john-catalano]

Issue

Catch will update, will show recent shows when clicking "Recent Episodes...", but Transmission will never trigger.

Background

I had Catch/Transmission working fine together for almost 2 years, from Mojave to Catalina to Big Sur.

At the start of 2021, I reinstalled, from scratch, macOS Big Sur, and went about manually reinstalling my most used apps. Catch and Transmission were soon installed.

Current

I've had Catch and Transmission running since early January and, despite new episodes, Transmission is never triggered to perform the download.

I can kick off a transfer, manually, by selecting Recent Episodes and then clicking the reload button next to the show. Transmission immediately gets the magnet and starts downloading.

Also, Transmission works fine for me when I manually click torrent or magnet links on other sites - just not automatically via Catch.

In some cases, webloc files are saved to my Torrents directory (#129 (comment))

I am currently using 3.0a5 on Big Sur, but I used 1.9x for a few years (Mojave, Catalina) without issues.

[mipstian]

If webloc files are involved, that means that "Open Automatically" is off.

[john-catalano]

Nope. I have been playing with the settings. "Open Automatically" is on and has been for the past two days at least.

Checking recent episodes, there was one yesterday and that didn't open up in Transmission.

[mipstian]

It must've been at the time of creation of those webloc files at least.

So what happens when a new torrent pops up in the feed is this:

// Open magnet link
NSWorkspace.shared.openInBackground(url: episode.url)
addToDownloadHistory()

Meaning that if you see the item in the Recents window, openInBackground must've been called already.

When you click the "download again" button, this happens:

NSWorkspace.shared.openInBackground(url: recentEpisode.url)

Which is basically the same code, so I have no idea why one would work but not the other.

This is assuming everything is magnet links... Can you share the feed?

[john-catalano]

I don't know what Catch considers "new". Is there a reset I can do so that everything in "Recent" is new, again?

My username is obscured, but here's the URL
http://showrss.info/user/$OBSCURED_USER_NAME.rss?magnets=true&namespaces=true&name=null&quality=null&re=null

I attached a log file from my system of me asking Catch to refresh.
2021-01-19.txt

Also, to be sure, I've attached screenshots of my config.

Finally, I updated to release 2.0 v658 yesterday, but there is no change in behavior. I can see the latest releases (last one on Jan 16th, then a few earlier in Jan), but Transmission never kicks off the download. Yet, when I click the reload icon on the Recents window, Transmission immediately gets the magnet and starts downloading.

[mipstian]

In the version you have, you can right click an entry in Recents and delete it. You can then either "Check Now" or wait for the next update to observe the app's behavior. If this fails, it'd be nice to see the Console logs of the check.

[mipstian]

Closing due to inactivity (also there are a bunch of quality-of-life improvements in the latest releases that might help debug this). Please reply/reopen if needed.