Double Files in Downloads

Posted by Dezolate

Every time SABnzbd or Qbit downloads something it will move to the downloads folder and then the media folder and there will be 2 copys. Is there a way to disable that or make it delete the download folder after it move it to the finished folder? Or is there a reason to have the 2? I remember reading about the setting hardpoints could fix that but never saw the option.

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tomspark wrote:

Good news — this is working as intended, and you're almost certainly not using double the space. What looks like 2 copies is really one file with two names (a "hardlink"): qBittorrent keeps its name in the downloads folder so it can keep seeding, while Jellyfin sees it in your Movies/TV folder — but both point at the exact same data, so it only counts once on your drive. Easy way to prove it: watch your free space when a download finishes importing — it drops by the file's size once, not twice. That hardlink is already on by default here, so there's nothing to switch on. I'd leave the downloads where they are so your torrents keep seeding — deleting them stops seeding and doesn't actually free space. But if your free space really IS dropping by double, tell me and we'll dig in, because that'd mean the hardlink isn't catching on your setup.