I was running out of space on my Disk 1 so added a second to the NAS and included it in the disks available to each one of my shares. I then added a bunch of new episodes to a TV show that already existed on my share but noticed the free space on Disk 2 wasn’t decreasing while the old Disk 1 was (eventually stopped because no more free space available) which I’m guessing is due to the fact the folder for the show already existed on Disk 1? If this is the case how do I move already existing shows to the new disk or is there way I can just have the new episodes go to the new disk?

 

I tried the unbalance plugin, selected everything I needed, and the disks to and from, then clicked Plan but it just hangs while showing the colorful Google-esque loading icon at the top of the page.

 

My TV shows share file structures is as follows…

TVShows / TVShowName / SeasonNo / Episode01.mkv

 

It has the share settings set as follows…

 

 

As a side note I also attempted to move several shows back to my PC to add the new content in the hope that when I added it back to the NAS it would go to Disk 2 because I wasn’t adding new episodes to an existing show. Unfortunately, in the process of adding the new episodes to the folder the move process stalled so I cancelled it, but now appear to have lost several GBs of files into the ether. I don’t suppose there’s a way to recover them? Tried Recuva (both normal and deep scan) for video files but came up empty.

Edited January 9, 20224 yr by smush

Your split level setting is very restrictive and it will be that stopping the other disk being used.   Only the top level TVShows folder is allowed to exist on more than one drive.   Once you have created a sub-folder under TVShows then you are forcing all its contents to always go the disk that is created on regardless of whether there is enough free space.

 

2 hours ago, smush said:

s a side note I also attempted to move several shows back to my PC to add the new content in the hope that when I added it back to the NAS it would go to Disk 2 because I wasn’t adding new episodes to an existing show. Unfortunately, in the process of adding the new episodes to the folder the move process stalled so I cancelled it, but now appear to have lost several GBs of files into the ether. I don’t suppose there’s a way to recover them? Tried Recuva (both normal and deep scan) for video files but came up empty.

There is no way this process should have resulted in data disappearing as you describe.    Are you sure you have not accidentally moved it into a sub-folder somewhere?

23 hours ago, itimpi said:

Your split level setting is very restrictive and it will be that stopping the other disk being used.   Only the top level TVShows folder is allowed to exist on more than one drive.   Once you have created a sub-folder under TVShows then you are forcing all its contents to always go the disk that is created on regardless of whether there is enough free space.

But I did create a new sub folder under TVShows and added content to it and it went to the new disk as the original disk was full. What I couldn't do is add content to an existing sub folder under TVShows.

 

What would be the less restrictive option (other than the 'as required')? Would it mess up my folder structure because I think that's why I set it up like that in the first place because I didn't understand split level so looked it up and read some posts here from awhile back (I forget what they were)

 

 

23 hours ago, itimpi said:

There is no way this process should have resulted in data disappearing as you describe.    Are you sure you have not accidentally moved it into a sub-folder somewhere?

I don't mean on my Unraid server I mean Windows 10 PC. I had 2 Explorer windows open - the source folder and the destination folder both had the same folder name but different locations on the PC. Initiated the move but the transfer stalled immediately. It eventually got going but said it would take 2 hours which didn't seem right for the amount I was moving so I cancelled the transfer. After checking the source folder, it was empty while the destination folder had some new files selected (as is the norm after transfer) I did a right-click and 'properties' check on the selected files and noticed the number of files was less that what I intended to transfer as was the total file size.

 

Apparently it can happen having looked it up but has never happened to me before so just thought I'd ask while I was posting if anyone knew of a way to get the files back.

Some further assistance appreciated. Thanks