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.
Yeah if it’s an entire eight season series in one torrent this probably won’t work as sonarr can’t do more than single episodes or single seasons. In this case, I think you’ll need to create a folder for each season manually in your target directory for your media library, copy the appropriate files to each one, navigate to the series in sonarr, click the “scan” button so it sees the new files, and then click the rename button if you wish.
I think you’ll need to have two copies in this case since sonarr won’t work for handlinks here but you can always delete the seeded copy later after you’ve seeded it for a while.
Edit: also if you try this again with other files in the future, instead of waiting for sonarr/radarr to see the file you manually added to your torrent client, you can hit the refresh button under the activity tab and it should pick it up right away.
Thank you so much for your help! This has been a thing I’ve been putting off learning for a few months now. Knowing a little more about Sonarr’s limitations is a tremendous boon, I will probably just delete the series from the seedbox and redownload through Jellyseer. Because I typically try to permaseed (until I need to free up space anyway) hard linking is the priority.
Thanks again for your help, friend!