Sonarr keeps copying files

How do I stop Sonarr from copying downloaded files to a new folder. This is creating duplicates oF the file on my Mac and I don’t need this. I’m okay with all downloads staying where their they are and Plex organizes them.

I assume you’re talking about torrents that are still seeding. The ideal setup would be to enable Hardlinking instead of Copying, so it create another pointer to the same file. That way Sonarr sees the files as imported and doesn’t try to grab another copy/treats it as missing.

If you don’t want to let Sonarr do this part of its job you can turn off Completed Download Handling.

Took me awhile to get back to this as I rebuilt my Mac Mini. But anyways, after Sonarr retrieves a file and sends it to Transmission (which determines where to download the file to), Sonarr makes a copy of the file in a new directory. For example, if a Game of Thrones episode is downloaded as Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.mkv and saved to /TV Sonarr creates a new directory and copies Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.mkv to the /TV/Game of Thrones directory which now means i have two of the files.

I would like to set it so Sonarr doesn’t do any post handling to the download, as I keep the files until I watch them and am running low on space, at which point i just delete them from Transmission and my Hard Drive.

I’m not really a fan of the symlinks being created either since I’m never going to use them. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sonarr either creates a hardlink or copies currently seeding torrents. If you don’t want Sonarr to do any post processing disable Completed Download Handling, but the files will be treated as missing until you manually unmonitor them because Sonarr needs to see the episode file in the series folder to consider it as completed.

If I turn off completed download handling, is it going to continually search for that show?

Its not going to search for it (https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/FAQ#how-does-sonarr-find-episodes), but it will watch RSS feeds for it.

Sonarr doesn’t directly support your type of setup, it needs to see things imported to stop looking for episodes. We don’t have any immediate plans to support this type of setup, but it is on our to do list:

Gotcha Thx for the info. Given my setup, would you just recommend symlinks then?

Sonarr only support hardlinks (which you can enable in settings, Copying is the default), but that would be the easiest.

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