Hi,

Quick question that's been bugging me for the last while, all of a sudden the media folder that I originally created when setting up my Unraid server had all movies/tv etc going to the array but for some reason the last while it now has anything I create being added to my cache folder.

Noticed when I went to add a movie folder in Radarr that it was showing as only 774gb free when my array has 4.18tb free.

Any new items added through Radarr/Sonarr are now defaulting to my cache drive and I can't figure out how to change it back.

All help greatly appreciated.

Please post the diagnostics.

Appreciate the quick response, zip file attached.

dmp-unraid-diagnostics-20260316-1904.zip

Your media share does appear to be set to not use cache. Are you sure you don't have something specifying a path to /mnt/cache/media?

How are the files being created for radarr to work with?

To the best of my knowledge I can't see anything directing to that path.

I set this up years ago and other than a couple OS upgrades I've not changed anything.

Can't even go into the share and change the primary/secondary storage as it's greyed out.

I would add a movie and it would ask me where to download to, for some reason it started defaulting to the cache.

you have what appear to be two media shares on your USB

Media.cfg and media.cfg

M---a                                                     # Share does not exist
m---a                             shareUseCache="no"      # Share exists on cache, disk1, disk2, disk3

On the Shares tab click on "Clean Up" at the bottom of the share list

Edited March 16Mar 16 by MowMdown

I tried this option from Gemini

"Step 1: Force-Delete the Config

We are going to delete the specific configuration file for the media share. Don't worry—this doesn't delete your movies; it just deletes the "rules" for that folder so Unraid is forced to recreate them from scratch.

Open the Terminal (>_ icon).

Type this exactly and press Enter:

rm /boot/config/shares/media.cfg

Now, immediately reboot your Unraid server.

Step 2: Why Rebooting is Required

When Unraid boots back up, it will see the media folder on your disks but notice the .cfg file is missing. It will then generate a brand-new, default configuration file. Because this file is "new," the previous "locks" that were greying out your Primary/Secondary storage settings will be gone.

Step 3: Re-configure the Share

Once the server is back online:

Go to the Shares tab and click on media.

The dropdowns should now be black and selectable!

Set them to your preferred "Best Practice" setup:

Primary storage: Cache

Secondary storage: Array

Mover action: Cache -> Array"

It's giving me the option to change my primary/secondary storage.

Earlier releases of the Unraid were not as strict about the capitalisation of the shares .cfg file in the config/shares folder on the flash drive but the latest releases do and you will get unexpected results if the capitalisation is not the same as that of the actual folders on the array drives or pools corresponding to a share.

Couple days in and things seem to be working like normal.

Thank you one & all for the help, responses.