Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.

I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That's fine, I choose to support the community, but it's pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.

This only works if you share. Please don't cut off as soon as you've downloaded.

And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for "Machine Gun Fellatio" also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular

"MGF Pack 1"

"MGF+Pack+2"

"MGF+Pack+3"

If I can get the download completed I'll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I'm getting nowhere.

Rules don't permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help

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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You can configure radarr and sonarr to use hard linking instead of moving the.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, but hardlinking doesn't work if the files aren't on the same petition.

My downloads folder is on the main harddisk.
The files are moved to an external ssd.

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you looked into Remote Path mappings? I have not had to employ this myself, but my understanding is this allows you to avoid file duplication when your *arr and torrent client are using different filesystems.

Maybe I'm mis-remembering though...

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

I will look in to that

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

By default both Sonarr and Radarr copy files, not move them. If they're being removed, something else is likely causing that. Some torrent clients have options to remove files after downloads are complete, maybe you have that turned on?

Telling your client where the file has been moved to wouldn't generally work, since Sonarr and Radarr will reorganize and rename files, so you couldn't keep seeding from them.

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't gotten around to finishing my stack but i could've sworn that's the default behavior

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I believe it is, but I don't think it always has been. I'm not sure if they automatically enabled it for existing installs when it was added.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That only works if they’re on the same drive or petition.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I know, but they didnt specify if it was on the same drive or not.

By default Sonarr and Radarr both copy files, not move them, so the files shouldnt be disappearing from the original drive.