I have Sonarr set up to download TV with my private TV tracker which has been working well, however when I go in and Pause torrents in Deluge, Sonarr does not remove them. I do not want to delete them manually since they are hard linked and I would probably end up deleting half of my files. I cannot find anything in the debug logs about Sonarr trying to remove them or trying to detect if downloads have stopped seeding. Any help is appreciated.
My system is Windows 8.1x64 running Sonarr 2.0.0.3530, Deluge 1.3.12, and Plex Server Version 0.9.12.13
Edit: I forgot to add that “Remove Completed Downloads” is enabled and I have been pausing torrents in Deluge manually when I want them to stop seeding.
If Deluge has a proper “Stopped” state (not paused), try that, but I believe we check that the seeding goals have been reached.
If the files are hard linked you can delete either hard link and the file will still exist, the easiest way to think about it is every file is a hard link to the data in that file, when all the hard links to a file are deleted the file is then deleted. This how data recover programs work, the file still physically exists, but there isn’t a link to the file and the recovery program is able to recover them if they haven’t been overwritten.
I don’t have seeding goals set, I just wanted to control it manually. I am aware of a deluge plugin that changes seeding goals based on tags, trackers, etc so I might set that up and see what happens.
Also, thanks for the updates on hard linking. I know it isn’t really a common thing to use in Windows, so I wasn’t sure how it affected files. All of my symbolic linking experience is in linux.
Yeah, symlinks (aka soft links) are quite different, you can delete the link and the original remains, but delete the original and the link has no target.
Looks like Deluge sets a flag IsFinished that Sonarr uses to determine if the torrent has been completed, which I believe uses the seeding goals.
I will set seeding goals tomorrow and see how they affect my several Wednesday night TV show downloads. If problems persist, I will report back. Thank you so much for your insight.
Also, even if it doesn’t work, since I already wanted to control seeding manually, knowing that I can just tell deluge to delete torrents and data and have the hard links stay in place is enough for me. It will keep everything uncluttered without deleting files I just downloaded.