How do you stop Sonarr moving files? I turned on Hardlink. I use a utorrent black hole and I want the original file to be left alone and just hardlinked to. They are on the same hard disk NTFS Windows 7.
Blackhole will always move because Sonarr has no way of knowing whether or not the file is still seeding as there isn’t a proper download client.
SickRage can do this. It shouldn’t matter if it is still seeding or not if it is hardlinked. It should just be left alone. In utorrent there is a !ut at the end of the file to show it hasn’t finished downloading.
I was hoping Sonarr would be a good alternative to SickRage after all the drama there.
I’ve just spent an hour renaming the files that Sonarr moved instead of hardlinking. I am not a happy bunny right now.
At the moment its not something Sonarr supports because we use the download client API to determine if the file should be moved or hardlinked/copied, blackhole doesn’t have an API so it always moves as mentioned in the warning when setting up the blackhole.
I don’t see this being something we won’t ever support and I Have a relatively low friction idea to support it, so we’ll look into doing it.
I think you should at least make it a lot clearer that Hardlink will move for blackholes. I still can’t find that message.
That was a lot of work to manually rename and move a couple of hundred files back for seeding.
You are right. I apologise. My mind must have ignored it because it looks greyed out. I expected it to be in one of the warning or question mark icons. Try adding a warning sign to make it stand out or flashing red CAPITALS. 
1 Like
I think the confusion comes from Sonarr starting as as nzb downloader where the default behaviour is to hit and run, there is no need to seed. With torrents the default behaviour is to continue seeding. Sharing is caring.
There is an option to hardlink or copy there now, in develop (default to true for new setups), hopefully that will help.
Excellent. Thanks.
This topic was automatically closed 60 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.