I ask this because whilst *arr apps supposedly import downloaded torrents to their respective media folders, my downloads folder for qbittorrent is over 200GB in size when I've got zero incomplete downloads.

Have I set something up wrong? Or is it setting some kind of hard link between the downloads and media folder?

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yup, *arrs actually warn you about that so I fixed it before I started downloading anything.

Hardlinks aren't a big issue for me but does explain how I had a bunch of "deleted" items in my plex folder when I migrated recently - I must have only deleted the qbittorrent (or plex) inode and left the other to get imported

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

qbit_manage has a feature where it'll check whether a hard link exists outside of the torrent directory, and deletes the torrent if it's only in the (qbit-)torrent directory.

This would've automatically removed the torrent once you've deleted the files from *arr. I recommend against deleting files from Plex, as *arr could detect them missing and redownload them.