Where are temporary files stored in download station synology

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If this is explained elsewhere or there's a discussion, please direct me to it. I went through the whole Telnet process and am pretty sure it doesn't work anymore. Trying to log in with "root" no longer accepts the admin password. If this is wrong, or there is another way, please let me know. I love the simple Download Station so far, but really need to access these files for more convenience. Help would be much appreciated, especially if it's already been covered or explained.

Rusty Moderator. NAS Support. Tober27 said:. Click to expand Rusty said:. Are you using sudo -i via ssh to get elevated to root? Then simply enter sudo -i and you will be prompted for a password. Enter the same DSM password for the account you have initially used to log in. If you want to make it easier for yourself, you could change Download Station's temporary location to an attached USB drive. Thanks, but why is this easier than just having a temp folder on the NAS?

And wouldn't it just wear out the USB, writing all files to both drives? I don't think there'd be a real wear difference. If you write the downloading files to a temporary location on the NAS, it then moves or copies them to their final location on the NAS; so they're written to the NAS drives multiple times. The temp file is accessible through Windows now that I've created a visible one.

I think you're right about the files being written to NAS twice though, which seems wasteful to me. If I move the temp folder inside the "video" where all my largest downloads go, then they'll only be written to the drive once though; right?

Anything else, music, documents, will have to be moved, but they're much smaller files. Even there, where the final video stays in the same folder, I think it gets rewritten on finalization You may be right, but I don't believe they're rewritten. An mkv file will have the same full file name, except will be ". If I'm mistaken, and anyone knows for sure, please tell me, as I think it's simpler if the temp file is separate, but not if it's adding extra write wear on the drive.

It's not just being appended to, because the portions come in random order. In any event, the wear from a few writes or even a few million writes seems pretty negligible. My understanding of bitorrents was that it is appending, adding to, the files until they're complete. And a few files wouldn't make a difference, but I'd have thought many large files constantly over years would make a difference. I could be wrong though.

If you use the Download Station for BitTorrent downloads, you may want to access files from the torrent early and before the complete torrent is finished. In this case you could assume that the setup download folder would be also used as a place for these temporary files. But the Download Station uses a hidden folder for these files.

If you want to continue to download and want to check the folders content at the same time, you will need to mount this folder to a shared folder which is accessable via SMB or AFP and their likes.

The command. This way you can access all temporary files. But be aware, that this command will only last until you reboot your DiskStation. Some people in the official Synology forum also decided to ask for this feature.

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