If I'm using *arr apps with qbittorrent, are active torrents duplicating data? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by merthyr1831@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] 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.