I've had this issue for a while. My cache keeps filling up, primarily from my downloads folder and my media folder. I have Sonarr and Radarr.

Mover isn't moving the files even when manually initiated.

I've read loads of threads and haven't found anything that seems to fit my issues. I believe my share settings are correct. I don't have the mover tuning plugin.

I have attached my shares overview and my diagnostics. Any help would be appreciated!

home-server-diagnostics-20260414-1918.zip

As you can see in your screenshot, you have 2 "downloads" shares, one named Downloads, and one named downloads. Linux is case-sensitive, so these are different shares. You probably used the wrong case when you specified a path, maybe in one of your container mappings.

The flash drive, where your configuration is kept, including settings for each share, is NOT case-sensitive. So it isn't possible to have settings for both of those shares.

You should fix whatever created the wrong case, and consolidate those into one share.

However, neither "downloads" share has any files on cache currently.

1 minute ago, trurl said:

As you can see in your screenshot, you have 2 "downloads" shares, one named Downloads, and one named downloads. Linux is case-sensitive, so these are different shares. You probably used the wrong case when you specified a path, maybe in one of your container mappings.

The flash drive, where your configuration is kept, including settings for each share, is NOT case-sensitive. So it isn't possible to have settings for both of those shares.

You should fix whatever created the wrong case, and consolidate those into one share.

However, neither "downloads" share has any files on cache currently.

Thanks for the reply. The lowercase one is brand new. I was thinking of changing to that one. It's empty and not used for any dockers. I can delete it. I've been having this issue since before I created that share.

You have a similar problem with your Media share, but in this case, you only have settings for a share named "media" which has no contents so doesn't exist. The Media share has files on cache, but since it has no settings, mover ignores it.

After you have fixed those things about Downloads I mentioned, go to the User Shares page and click the CLEAN UP button, then make settings for your Downloads and Media shares.

1 minute ago, andyps said:

The lowercase one is brand new. I was thinking of changing to that one. It's empty and not used for any dockers. I can delete it.

downloads is not empty. It has files on disk1

6 minutes ago, trurl said:

You have a similar problem with your Media share, but in this case, you only have settings for a share named "media" which has no contents so doesn't exist. The Media share has files on cache, but since it has no settings, mover ignores it.

After you have fixed those things about Downloads I mentioned, go to the User Shares page and click the CLEAN UP button, then make settings for your Downloads and Media shares.

Huh. Where did you see the "media" share? I only see "Media" in my shares. All my apps use "Media" to my knowledge.

5 minutes ago, trurl said:

downloads is not empty. It has files on disk1

Ah. No idea. It's deleted now. So one less potential issue, hopefully.

1 minute ago, andyps said:

Huh. Where did you see the "media" share? I only see "Media" in my shares. All my apps use "Media" to my knowledge.

As mentioned

11 minutes ago, trurl said:

you only have settings for a share named "media" which has no contents so doesn't exist.

Since flash isn't case sensitive, it isn't possible to have settings for your Media share since there is already settings for a share named "media"

14 minutes ago, trurl said:

go to the User Shares page and click the CLEAN UP button, then make settings for your Downloads and Media shares.

5 minutes ago, trurl said:

As mentioned

Since flash isn't case sensitive, it isn't possible to have settings for your Media share since there is already settings for a share named "media"

Sorry, I'm just not following. I can see the "Media" share and I can check the settings for it. How can I check the settings for "media" which I am not seeing?

I do see the "Media" folder on my cache and across my array drives.

Could you explain a little more where I should be looking for this?

The settings you are looking at are really the settings for the nonexistent "media" share, and don't apply to your "Media" share. That is the problem.

27 minutes ago, trurl said:

go to the User Shares page and click the CLEAN UP button, then make settings for your Downloads and Media shares.

There was a fix for this in V7.2, but I'm not sure what the "fix" actually does.

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/release-notes/7.2.0/#storage

6 minutes ago, trurl said:

The settings you are looking at are really the settings for the nonexistent "media" share, and don't apply to your "Media" share. That is the problem.

I did run the clean up function after deleting the "downloads" share.

Are you saying that the share settings (in my screenshot) that are under the "Media" share are actually for "media" ?

I wonder why this is an issue. Before I did a hardware upgrade in the past year, this config worked just fine with that share using mover.

If that is the case and I've already run "clean up" and mover still isn't moving, what can be done?

3 minutes ago, trurl said:

There was a fix for this in V7.2, but I'm not sure what the "fix" actually does.

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/release-notes/7.2.0/#storage

I could try upgrading my OS

1 minute ago, andyps said:

did run the clean up function

After that did you

39 minutes ago, trurl said:

make settings for your Downloads and Media shares.

Just now, trurl said:

After that did you

What do you mean by "make settings for your Downloads and Media shares."

Do you mean under shares, click the specific shares and confirm the settings? If that's the case, then "Media" already has the settings in place. Even after doing the clean up.

Post new diagnostics

2 minutes ago, trurl said:

Post new diagnostics

Attached

home-server-diagnostics-20260414-2047.zip

Looks like your Downloads share is fixed now.

I guess you will have to delete media.cfg file in config/shares on your flash drive, then apply settings to your Media share.

3 minutes ago, trurl said:

Looks like your Downloads share is fixed now.

I guess you will have to delete media.cfg file in config/shares on your flash drive, then apply settings to your Media share.

Would renaming it to match "Media" potentially fix or is deleting the only fix? Does this just delete the settings if I delete the .cfg file?

Looks like I am unable to rename it for some reason. I deleted it and saved the correct settings again, and I believe it is working now. Thank you for the help @trurl

I will post back if I run into an issue, but it's looking good so far.

Just now, andyps said:

Looks like I am unable to rename it for some reason.

Since flash isn't case sensitive, you can't rename it from media.cfg to Media.cfg. You could have renamed it from media.cfg to media.bak, for example, then renamed media.bak to Media.cfg

We have done it that way on other threads, but I forgot.

The reason flash isn't case sensitive is because it is FAT. FAT is Windows (actually DOS), which isn't case-sensitive. But it can be created and worked with natively on most OS.

SMB also isn't case-sensitive. Which means you wouldn't be able to see both Downloads and downloads shares on the network.

Can confirm all seems to be working well this morning. My cache is no longer full. Thanks @trurl, I used your paypal link. Appreciate the time.

Thank you!