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.

  • LiveLM
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    The only one I know is Filebot, but it’s not FOSS and it’s paid.
    It works great, but for my needs I’ve been just relying on Sonarr’s and Radarr’s Hardlink functionality.

  • @[email protected]
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    719 hours ago

    Sounds like you are conflating symlinks with hardlinks. Arrs have an option to do hard links.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 hours ago

    I am very glad you asked this question! After setting up my arrs, and loving the automation with jellyseer, I can’t figure out how to manually download and create the hard links that sonarr and radar automatically do. I look forward to someone answering your question.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 hours ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          218 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

          • @[email protected]
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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

            • @[email protected]
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              16 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.