Comment 1 for bug 719498

First of all, it's possible to change the location of the temporary folder through the SABnzbd web interface, which can be accessed by choosing File -> Open Web Interface. But of course, LottaNZB users shouldn't need to know that.

It's indeed not such a wise choice to have the folder for temporary files fixed to ~/Downloads/Incomplete as you've said, the user might choose another location as the download folder and should generally not be concerned where temporary files are stored. The default value was simply copied from SABnzbd. If one were to hide the folder of incomplete downloads, it would go to ~/.local/share/sabnzbd/incomplete or ~/.sabnzbd/incomplete.

The question is whether there are situations where users would want to access the temporary files while the download is taking place. Failed downloads are placed in the download folder chosen by the user, prefixed with FAILED_. I don't see much incentive not to hide the temporary folder by default. Another question is whether it should be possible to change the location of the temporary folder through LottaNZB's UI. It would be easy to do so but I'm not sure whether this option deserves the space.

Thoughts on this issue are welcome!