So, I might be losing my mind here, because digging through the megathreads, fmhy and Awesome-Jellyfin hasn’t turned up anything like what I’m looking for, but I could swear I read about an *arr tool once before that would watch a download folder for files, and create properly named symlinks to the file in your library folder. Looking around, the closest I’ve found is Fixarr, but that’s definitely not it. I’m super confused. Is my memory just playing tricks on me?

Edit: It was just Radarr and Sonarr I was thinking of. Thank for your help, everyone.

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      I guess I should mention that I run Jellyfin and the arrs through my seedbox so I have only the vaguest notion of what docker is and does. But I guess a question I’ve never bothered to ask is does the copy command in a Linux system create a hard link? Because that seems like it would solve my problems too easily.

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        223 hours ago

        Copy command duplicates the file, so it takes up twice the space. Creating a hard link is instant and doesn’t waste space

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          Cool, I don’t feel as dumb now because that’s how I thought it worked. How do I create a hard link instead of copying in Linux though? The space saving is my main goal because space is finite on my box and there’s no reason to have it on there twice.

          The reason I ask is because a specific show my wife and I want to watch doesn’t pull correctly in Jellyseer but I’m almost certain I could just manually download the season I need. I just don’t know how to do what the arrs are doing on the backend.

          Edit: Gave her a goog and it looks pretty easy actually. If anyone else is interested in how to make hard links in Linux.

          https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/hard-links-linux

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            212 hours ago

            Just manually add the torrent to your download client and then assign it to the sonarr category and let it do the rest for you.

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              Interesting, I have tried that before but I didn’t think it worked, however there’s no telling if I waited long enough for sonarr to actually scan for it and add it. The hard link command worked great for a movie I wanted to manually add but since I can’t hard link directories I will try that for a TV show. Thanks for the advice!

              Edit: After figuring out how to add a profile and custom format that wouldn’t allow downloads from the indexers, I added the series that I was already seeding but it only imported the first season (of eight).

              I think it is getting thrown off by the folder structure? In the directory that my torrent client seeds from the files are in a folder named “Series S01-08” and then there is a folder for each season inside that folder. I’m guessing it just stops after season 1 thinking it’s done finding episodes in that directory? I’m unsure how to proceed. Any advice is welcome.