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That's normal, Radarr makes a copy of torrent downloads into wherever for Plex/Jelly so that the download folder-version can seed. I can't remember where the setting is, pretty sure it's in Radarr but there's a setting that specifies how long to seed and when it reaches the seed threshold to delete the file in the download folder.
So this implies there is something else I am missing. I assumed people would just keep the whole library open for seeding. Why would you want to delete the file in the download folder?
You would delete the download to completey stop seeding. Take a look at the guides others have posted.
My structure is this:
torrent -movies -TV
media -movies -TV
qbit downloads to the torrent folder where it seeds out from. Radarr/Sonarr make a Hardlink copy from the torrent folder to the media folder. Your media software watches the media folder.
but why would you want to stop seeding?
I mean that's up to you, my personal settings are 2:1, it'll delete and stop seeding once it's uploaded as much as 2 downloads worth.
But it's important to remember that Radarr/Sonarr are Usenet first, torrents didn't have official support till fairly recently and it's still a little wonky
Officially, to seed you basically have to have a duplicate file until your set threshold is reached.
If you want to seed forever (or at least a really long time (ty btw for your contributions)) I'd say you're probably going to want some custom scripts. Have Radarr move the file and rename as normal and then your script to symlink it back to the torrent directory under the original filename so it can continue to seed without taking up double space for every movie
I don't think this is true at all. They've both had solid torrent support for years, across multiple major version numbers. It's neither wonky nor recent.
Further driving home that this dude is full of shit, hardlinking the files is enabled by default in both Sonarr and Radarr and certainly doesn't require any custom scripting.
OP, quit listening to random people online and spend some time reading the documentation yourself.