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

    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.