I am sure I am just missing something simple… I have prowlarr -> sonarr/radarr -> qbittorrent -> jellyfin I created three directories. /jelly/video /sonarr /radarr. I configured sonarr and radar to use their respective directories. And I configured qbittorrent to use /jelly/video as the default download dir.

But what seems to be happening is that if I download a movie, it ends up in both /radarr and /jelly/video. And then if I delete it from /jelly/video it doesn’t seed for others.

What am I missing here?

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    That’s normal, Radarr makes a copy of torrent downloads into wherever for Plex/Jelly so that the download folder-version can seed. I can’t remember where the setting is, pretty sure it’s in Radarr but there’s a setting that specifies how long to seed and when it reaches the seed threshold to delete the file in the download folder.

    • SailorsLife@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      So this implies there is something else I am missing. I assumed people would just keep the whole library open for seeding. Why would you want to delete the file in the download folder?

      • lessthanthree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        You would delete the download to completey stop seeding. Take a look at the guides others have posted.

        My structure is this:

        torrent -movies -TV

        media -movies -TV

        qbit downloads to the torrent folder where it seeds out from. Radarr/Sonarr make a Hardlink copy from the torrent folder to the media folder. Your media software watches the media folder.

          • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I mean that’s up to you, my personal settings are 2:1, it’ll delete and stop seeding once it’s uploaded as much as 2 downloads worth.

            But it’s important to remember that Radarr/Sonarr are Usenet first, torrents didn’t have official support till fairly recently and it’s still a little wonky

            Officially, to seed you basically have to have a duplicate file until your set threshold is reached.

            If you want to seed forever (or at least a really long time (ty btw for your contributions)) I’d say you’re probably going to want some custom scripts. Have Radarr move the file and rename as normal and then your script to symlink it back to the torrent directory under the original filename so it can continue to seed without taking up double space for every movie