Sonarr, sorting, and "duplicate"(?) files

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Sonar version: 2.0.0.3953
OS: Windows 10 x64
Torrent client: Deluge 1.3.12
Torrent tracker: BTN

Howdy. After quite a bit of trial and error I’ve gotten Sonarr to automatically download new episodes of watched series’ for me. However, I’m having trouble trying to fine-tune it to my particular tastes. I’m hoping someone with better know-how can give me a quick rundown on how to achieve this.

Here’s a picture of my Series Editor page in Sonarr

What I want to happen is for the downloaded episodes to automatically be sorted into their respective folders and be able to seed directly from there. I don’t want to copy them, rename them, or organize in any other way other than Root folder >> TV show >> Season. Which for the most part is what’s happening, but instead of just having one copy of a show, I get two. One is in the root folder, the other is in the show/season folder. I’ve read that this may be due to something called hardlinking, which I can’t seem to wrap my head around. But by all appearances Sonarr is making two copies, and thus taking up twice as much space? :confused:

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Don’t mix sorted and unsorted files. Sounds like you have Completed torrents going to H:\ then Sonarr is either hardlinking or copying them to the series folder.

Whether Sonarr copies or hardlink depends on whether the filesystem supports hardlinking and if its enabled in Sonarr. NTFS does support hardlinking, but drive extenders built on top of NTFS (Drive Bender, Drive Pool, Flex RAID, etc) do not. ((Debug logs)) will show whether the hardlink failed and it resorted to a copy.

A hardlink does not take up additional disk space, it is two pointers on disk that point to the exact same data, deleting either “file” will leave the other “file” intact, deleting both copies deletes the file.

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Sorry, I may have mixed up my terminology there.

My file setup as as follows:
H:\torrents\tv series
I have completed torrents simply going to H:\torrents

Should I make a new folder in H:\ to put my completed torrents, keeping it completely separate from the H:\torrents\tvseries folder?

I’m using an NTFS drive by the way. I have the hardlink setting enabled in Sonarr. I’ve installed “Link Shell Extension” to try and see which files are hardlinks, but I can’t figure that out either. I don’t know what a drive extender is. <.<

Here is my debug log

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Yes, that would be ideal, not strictly required, but keeps things clean and prevents bugs that affect import from wiping out sorted files.

That only shows the startup process, you need to enable debug logging to get additional information.

Its a way to pool multiple drives into one drive thats presented to the OS.

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