u/Old_Reserve_1363 — reddlx

I'm switching over to TorrentLeech soon. Before I do, I want to sort out a few things about the arr setup that I don't fully understand.

The first one is hardlinks. I get that they save space, but I don't really understand what's actually happening on disk when one is created. Because of that, I'm hesitant to touch anything in case I break something.

The second is the seeding logic. On Windows you download something, it sits where you put it, and it seeds from there. With the arr stack there's a downloads folder, a media folder, the import process, categories in qBit, and it's not clear to me what's actually seeding from where after a download finishes.

Then there's deletion. When I want to remove something there's the media file, the hardlink, the .nfo, subtitle files, sample files, and the leftover .torrent in qBit. Every delete seems to leave something behind. I'm not even sure where I'm supposed to be deleting from in the first place, whether that's qBit or Radarr.

The last thing is the Queue under the Activity tab in Radarr and Sonarr. I've got a movie sitting in there right now and the "Grab Selected" button is greyed out. I have no idea what it's waiting on or what I'm meant to do with it.

If anyone has a setup or workflow that handles all of this cleanly, I'd love to hear how you've got it configured.