I thought I understood Split levels, but maybe I don't.  I've been browsing my disks and I notice a lot of empty folders and I'm not sure why.  Let's use the TV show Seinfeld for example.  All my episodes are single files (.mkv) and stored in a folder with the name of the show which are in a user share named TV Shows.  For example:

 

/disk1

/disk1/TV Shows

/disk1/TV Shows/Seinfeld

/disk1/TV Shows/Seinfeld/Episode 1

/disk1/TV Shows/Seinfeld/Episode 2

etc.

 

Since these are single file videos and can be spread across disks without issue, I never set a split level on the TV Shows user share.  The problem is that I am finding empty Seinfeld folders on several disks.  Why is that?  Why would an empty Seinfeld folder be created on a disk?  I thought the folder would only be created if unRAID needed to place a file in it.  Do I need to set a split level?

Have you been editing or replacing the files?

No.  Even if I'm forgetting something, it can't be this many.

How are you putting the files on the server?

What are your share settings?

 

Sickbeard writes the files to the appropriate TV show folder under my 'TV Shows' share.  Sometimes I manually replace some with a Blu-Ray rip and then I do the same thing.  I write it to the show folder under the TV Shows share.

Anybody have an ideas why I'm getting these empty folders?

I have had those.

 

I don't what causes them, but I think sometimes when I transfer files they fail for some reason (maybe the server is too slow to locate free space), there's only the top folder created.

 

And when I have made a parity check there is stuff in the lost+found folder, but I don't remember have I seen the folders in the main share.

Post your share settings.

I'm really sorry lionelhultz!  You've been trying to help me and I completely forgot I needed to reply.  My apologies!

 

Here is a screenshot of the settings for a share that had a bunch of them.

 

Untitled by rockdawg2232, on Flickr

I don't see any issue. Try using level 1 on your TV Shows share instead of not setting it.

But won't level 1 keep the Seinfled folder from expanding to other drives as needed?  If so, I don't want that.  I just want it to only expand when it needs to write file there, not just create an empty folder.

Yes, it would. Try level 2 then and see what happens. I'm still thinking it's something to do with how the files are written. Do you let the TV share use the cache disk so the files go there first and then the mover moves them?