I ask this because whilst *arr apps supposedly import downloaded torrents to their respective media folders, my downloads folder for qbittorrent is over 200GB in size when I’ve got zero incomplete downloads.

Have I set something up wrong? Or is it setting some kind of hard link between the downloads and media folder?

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Yup, *arrs actually warn you about that so I fixed it before I started downloading anything.

    Hardlinks aren’t a big issue for me but does explain how I had a bunch of “deleted” items in my plex folder when I migrated recently - I must have only deleted the qbittorrent (or plex) inode and left the other to get imported

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      qbit_manage has a feature where it’ll check whether a hard link exists outside of the torrent directory, and deletes the torrent if it’s only in the (qbit-)torrent directory.

      This would’ve automatically removed the torrent once you’ve deleted the files from *arr. I recommend against deleting files from Plex, as *arr could detect them missing and redownload them.

      • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Wait can you expand on that a little more? I literally was just now getting ready to try and troubleshoot why my hardlinking was not working.

        I was under the impression that the torrent storage and media library just needed to be in the same share, but maybe there is more to it…?

          • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            Thanks I will double check that later. Reading the Trashguides, I didn’t catch that the paths had to be that identical.

            It’s more than a little annoying that Radarr doesn’t throw any indication that it’s physically duplicating files rather than creating hardlinks!