For background, i have a few hundred torrented movies that I have been downloading to / seeding directly from a folder structure set up for Plex/Jellyfin. Media library is a mix of ripped and downloaded content. Till now I have been using a client on my desktop to manage the files on my media server, but now qbittorent and radarr live on the media server where they should be.

I struggled for a bit to get qbittorent and radarr set up and hardlinking properly, and am now ready to start migrating all those torrents into the proper location. What I’m doing works, but it feels like I’m doing something the long way.

Here’s what I’m currently doing:

• Move torrent from media library to torrent folder
• Copy/paste torrent link from desktop client to media server client and verify that it’s seen properly
• Add movie(s) in radarr, but do not tell it to begin searching for it
• Select Manual Import / Interactive Import
• Check the appropriate media file(s) and allow radarr to Import them to the movies I just added.

If that’s more or less the best way to do it, I will chug through since it seems to be working. It just seems like adding the movie before importing is superfluous, since radarr has no problem matching up the media file the correct movie once it has been added.

TIA!