Sonarr copying downloaded files, how to stop

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Great product. Love it… just having a few issues… (I’m on OSX using Transmission as my client)

I have a series and it is set to download to: /Users/*****/TV Shows/SeriesNameHere

Transmissions downloads it to: /Users/*****/TV Shows/

Sonarr(?) then copies it to /Users/*****/TV Shows/SeriesNameHere

Any way to prevent it from making that copy? Or better yet have Transmission download ot the location I told it in Sonarr?

Completed Download Handling is turned on (maybe it should be off?)

I’ve tried turning off Use Hardlinks instead of Copy but it does not seem to change anything.

Is there a way to make my workflow work? If not what is the preferred workflow for using Sonarr? Do most people use it such that they have a seedbox (sandbox) for active torrent files and then copy all files to a media drive? Seems like a lot of duplication of files.

Thanks!

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Have you read the ((FAQ))? This is expected if its still seeding.

No thats not possible.

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OK so it can delete the copy if it’s done seeding. But that’s ratio based. Some torrent sites are not ratio based but time based (BTN for example). How can you set it to delete if it’s time based?

Just seems like a strange way to have it all work. Why not just downlaod to one spot and seed from there?

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That only works if you’re not renaming files, many (most?) rename the files in their library.

Hardlinks aren’t copies, they appear to be, but the disk space is only consumed once.

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How can you tell if it’s a hardlink vs a copy? In Finder both files show to be the same size on disk. (thanks for your help in making me understand this better)

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This is the first result from [google] (https://www.google.ca/webhp?&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=os+x+check+if+file+is+hardlink):

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Yes I am familiar with (and used Google) to try to find the answer. The page you linked to does not really tell you how to determine this.

I would think there should be a straightforward way of determining if the file is being copied or hardlinked…

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ls -l will tell you the number of references to the file, 1 reference should be a copy, 2 or more means there are hardlinks.

Sonarr will also log different messages depending on the configuration.

Hardlinking episode file when hard linking is allowed, versus Copying episode file if Sonarr fails to hard link the file it will log a message that it failed to create the hard link, all these messages are at the Debug level.

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OK so ls -l on either file shows 2 so they are hardlinks. I have Transmission set to stop seeding after 1:1 ratio or a period of inactivity.

So if these were copies I assume they’d be deleted. But since they are hardlinks they will never be removed. Is this correct?

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If Sonarr is set to remove completed downloads it will remove them when seeding is complete, hardlink or copy, it doesn’t matter.

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