Post #3392045

2026-06-24 18:06 UTC

Have you heard of our load and savior “Automatically renaming and organizing with sonarr and using symlinks to preserve the naming of the torrent downloads so you can seed without using twice as much storage”? Sonarr makes a symlink from the torrent download folder to a new folder where it renames and reorganizes the file, but the pointer for that file and the file in the downloads folder point to the same file on your hdd so.you have two copies with different names but only one “file”. Now you have a perfectly organized media folder to feed into Plex while all of those files also live in your completed downloads folder with the original naming conventions. And it’s all automagic.

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@SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-24 18:23

Thank you for this comment - I have been content with just a torrent client and jellyfin for ages. All files are tossed into a television or movies folder across multiple drives, like MoviesDriveA and MoviesDriveB. It works but it’s a real pain sometimes and having everything just go to a simpler torrent downloads would be a great time saver.

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@lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-24 20:58

Yes. Just to add, not everything hard links for me due to files being seeded (and locked) straight after it’s done downloading, so later I go back and fix the bulk by entering the download folder and typing: To list files that weren’t hard linked: find . -links 1 -type f | grep ".mp4$\|.mkv$" | sort > ../fixthese.txt And going through the list and either reimporting manually via *arr>Wanted>Import manually, or omitting certain shows once you’re certain all the unlinked are unwanted extras with: find . -links 1 -type f | grep ".mp4$\|.mkv$" | grep -vE "./(Band.Of.Brothers|The Boys|Westworld|.*\] (Attack On Titan|JoJo)|.*ample.mkv$)" | sort > ../fixthese.txt

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@SatyrSack@quokk.au 2026-06-25 04:29

The one main thing that has stopped me from setting up Sonarr is that I want my media server and torrent server to be on two different machines. Can Sonarr handle symlinks or whatever over the network or something? Currently, I add manually torrents to Qbittorrent on Server A, which downloads the file to the hard drive on Server A. When downloading has completed, I use SFTP to transfer the files to a hard drive in Server B, which runs Jellyfin. Then I may use SSH to rename the files to something Jellyfin-friendly, if necessary. When I tried to have one server running both programs, having a lot of activity in Qbittorrent made Jellyfin move sluggishly. Running them on different servers like this allows them to not bottleneck each other at all, and they can run at full speed at all times. I could see myself using Sonarr if I can still keep those two main programs segregated to separate machines.

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