I’m running my arr stack on Unraid. I set it up using a combination of Trash’s guide and Ibracorp’s video (linked in same article). Everything had been working well. I believe I made some changes to Qbittorrent’s handling of completed torrents, but I honestly don’t recall. I’ve learned my lesson in that regard and am carefully documenting my various self-hosting adventures now.

The issue is when either Radarr or Lidarr download something new, it creates a subfolder called Radarr or Lidarr, then has the new movie/album inside the applicable folder by itself. As a result none of the hardlinks or mover tasks work properly. Sonarr, on the other hand works fine. Does anyone have any ideas on what I could check or change to fix this? So far all my research shows complaints of either app creating its own subfolder per movie or album rather than a new folder named after the app.

Here’s an example of radarr having it’s own folder created after I deleted it, then queued up a new download. It makes a new ‘radarr’ folder and puts the finished download in it, instead of ‘movies’:

/mnt/user/data
├── media
│   ├── books
│   ├── movies
│   ├── music
│   └── tv
├── torrents
│   ├── books
│   ├── movies
│   ├── music
│   ├── radarr
│   ├── temp
│   ├── tv
  • rambos@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Check whats your root folder for radarr it should be something like data/media/movies. Also check in qbittorrent -> right click radarr category and double check save path. It shoud be something like /data/torrents/movies

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      1 year ago

      Other than that check default download path for incomplete/complete torrents in qbit options. Keep in mind that you can change the path for category and chose to apply that to any previously added torrents.

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        1 year ago

        Here’s what I’ve got, if I understand the qbit section you’re referring to:

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          1 year ago

          Oh lol Im blind. Well that one is wrong, you have to use your container paths. It should probably be like this:

          /data/torrents/movies

          Edit: my posts look confusing, this one should be replay to my post…

          So yeah just use /data/torrents/movies instead of /mnt/user/data/torrents in your category settings

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            1 year ago

            Well hot damn, that was it! Thank you for the tips. Both Radarr and Lidarr are putting finished downloads in the appropriate category. Though they don’t move from there, nor show up in Plex. I seem to recall hardlinks allowing items in the /torrents folder to be read as if in the /media directory? Does that sound right or am I mistaken?

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              1 year ago

              When radarr finds a release, it grabs a torrent and sends it to qbit. Qbit will start downloading in /data/torrents/temp and once its done it will move file to /data/torrent/movies. Then radarr will import (and rename) the file to data/media/movies. Now you have same file in both folder (torrents and media) but they take space only for 1. Plex movie library should be pointed to /data/media/movies and you should be done.

              So if you dont want to seed anymore, you can remove files from data/torrent (use qbit). If you dont want the file in plex anymore, you can delete it from data/media/ (use radarr or plex). Do both if you want to clear disk dpace

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                1 year ago

                That makes sense, thanks again. Looks like I just didn’t wait long enough. It is doing as you described on my test files.

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          1 year ago

          That looks good, but what about category settings? You probably have radarr category on the left side