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I was told this community might be able to help me....I’ve spent my entire day setting up sonarr/radarr on my Synology DS423+ NAS within docker. I got most of it figured out on my own but I’m stumped on how sonarr/radarr takes the files from my torrent client downloads folder and moves them to my media folder for plex/jellyfin to view.

I’ve followed this guide for how my folder structure is setup: https://wiki.servarr.com/docker-guide

Could someone point me in the direction of what I need to do so that when a file is finished downloading it automatically moves to my media folder?

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[–] NewDataEngineer 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

You have to give sonarr access to your top level media folder. Then you set sonarr up to hardlink the downloaded files to your media folder.

E.g. if you have home/media/tvshows and home/media/movies, give sonarr access to home/media. Your download client should probably have a folder like home/media/downloads in your sonarr app map the downloads folder to a sonarr folder in the downloaded client settings. Then set all imports to hardlink, instead of copy.

Your Plex/Jellyfin server should point to home/media for your library where the hardlinking occurs.

[–] ScoobyDoo27 1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I half follow. I have given radarr access to the top level folder (/data, not /data/media) so it should see everything. qbittorrent is linked to /data/torrents for my downloads. Where in radarr might I map the folders so it's hard linking instead of copying?

[–] NewDataEngineer 1 points 2 years ago

In settings --> download clients. Underneath qbittorrent you'll see remote path mappings. Make sure qbittorrent's internal path mapping is mapped to radarr's. So if qbittorrent downloads to /data/torrents, the mapping should be path internally in qbittorrent /data/torrents maps to path internally radarr /data/torrents.

Then in Radarr, whenever you do an import or download a new movie, point it to /data/media/ and choose hardlinking on import, typically bottom left in the import gui.

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