March 17, 20224 yr I will start this issue as I always do, by saying this is probably a PEBKAC issue. I have a pretty standard unraid setup with a cache (SSD) and an array (disks). I have media files that live on a share on the cache (Data) that once I have watched, I copy onto a share (Media) that should exist on the array. I have the Data share's cache set to "prefer" and Media set to "yes". When I copy files from the Data share to the Media share the files go from; /mnt/cache/Data/show1.mkv to /mnt/cache/Media/show1.mkv Then when I run mover (which I believe should move the file to /mnt/diskX/Media/show1.mkv It just spits the following error; Mar 17 11:22:59 NUC move: file: /mnt/cache/Media/show1.mkv Mar 17 11:22:59 NUC move: move_object: /mnt/cache/Media/show1.mkv File exists It looks like it is trying to copy it over itself. Why?
March 17, 20224 yr Community Expert Have you checked that the file does not already exist on an array disk? Mover will not move a file if one with the same name already exists on the array.. You may get better informed feedback if you post your system’s diagnostics zip file.
March 17, 20224 yr Author 2 hours ago, itimpi said: Have you checked that the file does not already exist on an array disk? Mover will not move a file if one with the same name already exists on the array.. You may get better informed feedback if you post your system’s diagnostics zip file. Fair thought, but I have already checked for that. The files in question have never been on the array. To be sure I even checked with; ls -laR /mnt/disk* | grep show1.mkv <- Returns nothing vs ls -laR /mnt/cache | grep show1.mkv <- Returns one file
March 17, 20224 yr Community Expert What you did should should have worked Nothing obvious springs to mind, but random ideas I have are: Permission issues that could be fixed by running Docker Safe New Permissions tool File System corruption that could be fixed by running File System Check/Repair on all drives As I said earlier your diagnostics might give some other clue.
March 19, 20224 yr Author Checked both permissions and scanned the array and cache for filesystem errors. All is good. I installed unBalance and that worked fine to move the files. It's a functional work around but would be nice to have the native system work.
March 19, 20224 yr Community Expert 3 hours ago, cat2devnull said: the native system Do you have the Mover Tuning plugin installed? On 3/17/2022 at 7:18 AM, itimpi said: your diagnostics might give some other clue
March 20, 20224 yr Author 22 hours ago, trurl said: Do you have the Mover Tuning plugin installed? No, can't say I've had anything to do with it.
March 20, 20224 yr Community Expert On 3/19/2022 at 12:31 AM, trurl said: On 3/17/2022 at 7:18 AM, itimpi said: your diagnostics might give some other clue
June 28, 20224 yr Author Sorry for the long delay in getting back to this. I've had exams and worked around the issue by using Krusader to manually move the files, so this went on the back burner. I just tried moving a bunch of large files from a share that is set to "prefer" to one that is set to "yes" and now mover seems to be happily moving the files. I suspect there was just something about the files I was moving the first time that "mover" didn't like or potentially an Unraid issue that has been fixed. I have upgraded from 6.9.x to 6.10.x in the mean time. Thanks to everyone who offered advice, it is appreciated.
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