When you have some torrent where there is a huge collection of files only some of which you want right now, but maybe you will come back to it later to get something else.
Example: This is a listing for torrents of audiobooks from The Eye. (Alphabetically by author, one torrent per letter.)
So I don’t want to download every audiobook ever. I selectively choose which to download. Then the torrent is “completed” when those are done. But I want to keep them around because maybe later I want something else. I just leave them in the queue?
In the torrent apps I’ve used, they seem to get confused by these. If you move the downloaded file to a proper location in your filesystem, then it is having a “missing files” error, unable to seed, and the torrent is in error state. But if you leave the obtained files, it’s still in the “not yet downloaded” directory forever.
Wondering if there is some smart way of managing this, or what?
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)