Manual import with hard links?

[gtwy]

I’ve had great success with Sonarr thus far. This is the first time I’ve had an issue like this.

After searching for and downloading a season through Sonarr, it isn’t importing automatically. In the queue, when I hover over each episode, it reads (show name redacted):

Show.Name.2016.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 1 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E02.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 2 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E03.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 3 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E04.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 4 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E05.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 5 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E06.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 6 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E07.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 7 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name
Show.Name.2016.S01E08.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv
-Episode Number 8 was unexpected considering the Show.Name.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD folder name

There is a manual import button and when I click it, it does automatically adjust the series, season, and episode for each file. My fear is that if I click “Import” it will either move the data (so I won’t be seeding anymore) or it will copy the data (duplicating disk space.)

Is there an option to hardlink the data? Aka the normal behavior of the app when things go correctly.

[markus101]

If you’re importing from a seeding torrent Sonarr will automatically copy/hardlink, if hardlinking is enabled in settings (and supported by your setup).

[Taloth]

[gtwy]

You were right!

I hit manual import and set it to “copy.” Checking inum confirms that it did hard link the data, leaving the torrent intact.

Thanks for your help. I wonder if a tooltip would be helpful on manual imports to let people know to choose copy if they want hard links.

(“Show name” redacted from following commands)

Get the inum for a random episode currently hosted on Sonarr:
gtwy@rocinante:/storage/media/TV/The Show/Season 01$ ls -ilh *.mkv | grep S01E08 146145283 -rw-rw-r-- 2 tor tor 8.7G Mar 21 13:49 S01E08.Bluray-1080p.x264.DTS.The Call of the Wild.VietHD.mkv

Check to see if a file with the same inum exists in the torrent download folder:
gtwy@rocinante:/storage/media/Downloads/The.Show.2016.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD/$ find ./ -inum 146145283 ./The.Show.2016.S01E08.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264-VietHD.mkv