I have jellyfin, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr, prowlarr. I end up with copies of things I download in two places, media folder, and then in a radarr or sonarr subfolder. Radarr and sonarr are configured to have their own dirs. Jellyfin has media libraries for movies and shows pointing to those same subdirs. But qbittorrent has a default save dir of the media dir.
If I delete something in jellyfin, it gets deleted only from the subfolder, not the media folder.
I thought that radarr and sonarr would tell qbittorrent where to download to… and it would be their subdirs. So what is making the copy in media? And is there some reason I should have these extra copies?
The best setup uses hardlinks. Qbit downloads to your torrents directory, when it finishes downloading it tells the arrs which hardlink it during the import to your media folder and jellyfin sees it there. Hardlinks don’t take up extra space but allow you to keep seeding the original while also having a nice renamed media library. Your media folder and torrents folder should never be the same.
hm. Does windows have hard links? I have done them in linux, but not windows myself. But if they were hard links… then deleting one would delete the other no?
My understanding is windows does have hardlinks but has a limitation on the amount. Hardlinks link to the same data on the disk, so deleting one just deletes the link but not the data, if you delete all links then the data is deleted. You should have 2 links, one in torrents and one in media. I highly recommend trash guides for setup