rogerfar
symbolic link downloader downloading full files (not just linking) when files aren't already cached?
As far as I can tell, when I download something using the symbolic link downloader that isn't already cached on RD, I end up with the actual file on my local storage instead of a link pointing to RD. I don't know how RD processes new downloads and how long it takes for them to show up in the cache. When I search for the same movie using Debrid Media Manager, I don't (at least not yet) see the version that corresponds to my newly downloaded torrent. Will it eventually be added to the cached content on RD? Shouldn't rdt-client wait until the unrarred file to become available and then link to it instead of downloading the fully extracted file to my local storage?
Is anyone else experiencing this? run "find /media/shows/ -type f" on your media directories and see if there are lots of files that are not symbolic links. For me, when *arrs do the search, I mostly end up with proper symbolic links when rdt-client is done with the downloads, but somehow I end up with a lot of actually downloaded files, too. I think it's when the files aren't already cached in Real-Debrid. It's like the internal downloader takes over when rdt-client sees a RAR file on the other end of the download link instead of either failing the download (which should trigger radarr/sonarr to auto search again but this isn't working either for some reason; everything just stays in failed state in both rdt-client and the sonarr/radarr queue) or requesting real-debrid to extract the actual files and provide separate download links (if that's possible with RD).
The Symlink downloader doesn't actually have functionality to download files, only to symlink. Are you sure you didn't use a different downloader?
I have only ever used the symbolic link downloader. So, unless I mistakenly changed the drop down, I can't explain it. I will try to reproduce and capture a log.
I am experiencing this as well. Rar files are being downloaded rather than waiting.
I have only ever used the symbolic link downloader. So, unless I mistakenly changed the drop down, I can't explain it. I will try to reproduce and capture a log.
perhaps this is the answer
https://github.com/rogerfar/rdt-client/issues/315#issuecomment-1733087113