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I just select the files I want from the bigger torrents, and then proceed to not touch it ever again, unless I want to add more stuff to the downloaded files.
I also don't move things around - I'm on Linux so all the torrents live in one place with symlinks pointing to where I need/want the data to be as I figured out yeeeears ago that trying to manage a couple thousand active torrents while having the data spread everywhere is a quick trip to migrane town.
Am also on linux. I have a bigger question about how to manage the downloaded files overall but I decided to start with a more specific post and see how that went. ;)
Previously I would move everything after done and a bit of seeding. Lately I've just been letting it accrue where it lands and seed indefinately. However that's not really viable as I move past VLC as media player. Media management software (kodi, jellyfin etc) has file structure requirements, it wants to write nfo files and so on. Also I don't have infinite HDD space so some stuff I just delete after watching.
Is there some kind of tool you use to manage the symlinks? Or you create them all manually in the cli or gui/cli/tui file manager? What's the workflow?
Another benefit of leaving everything in the torrent client is remembering what I already have without doing a file system search all the time. I do really like that aspect.
If you're using the *arr apps (Sonarr/Radarr/etc) for managing the sourcing and downloading of your torrents, they natively support using hard-links for "moving" the torrent files to their required location in the media server directory structure. It's a hardlink instead of a symlink as well which also means the copies don't rely on each other. They can each be moved/renamed/deleted without breaking the other file. Trash guides is a really helpful guide for setting up the *arr apps properly which includes a section on hard-links. https://trash-guides.info/
I don't use *arrs. A few years ago they were way more than I needed and quite complex to get going. I get the impression they are more mature now. Maybe is time to check out again.
I will look through the website you suggest. At first glance I am at odds with the author as I'm not at all "picky". But probably something to glean about how to work things out anyway.
Radarr and Sonarr both have features to sym/hardlink files to new places after the download client tells them it's finished.
Filebot also gets mentioned a lot for this task, though I haven't used it.
Looks like others have provided MOST of the answers.
Radarr/sonarr do the heavy lifting making symlinks where symlinks are required, but there's still the occasional bit of manual downloading.
I also have a script that'll check for broken symlinks like once a week and notify me of them and I'll go through and clean them up occasionally, but that's not super common and only happens if I'm manually removing content I made manual symlinks for, since I'll just let radarr/sonarr deal with it otherwise.
(The full stack is jellyseerr -> radarr/sonarr -> qbittorrent/sabnzb -> links for jellyfin)