I'm running Unraid 4.6-rc3 with Sabnzbd, SickBeard and Couchpotato. I have everything running on disk10.

 

Now both SB and CP are set to move the files to the appropriate shares once everything has been completed.

SickBeard - mnt/user/TV

CouchPotato - mnt/user/Movies

 

Now under shares in Unraid I have Movies to included disk4, disk5, disk6, disk7, disk8, disk9. While TV includes disk1, disk2, disk3.

 

After SB finishes it runs SABtoSickbeard.py does it's magic and then copies the TV show to the share, except it always ends up on disk10 in a new TV share directory (mnt/disk10/TV/Show Name/Season/File.mkv) but yet the .nfo and .tbn file are placed in their proper spots (somewhere on disk1, or disk2, or disk3, depending on the show, I have split level set to 1 so it keeps the whole TV show together no matter how many seasons, the split level is also set to 1 for Movies)

 

Now jump to CP, I have SABnzbd set to download to mnt/disk10/Downloads/Movie Temp where CP watches files and once they are complete does it's magic and moves it to the Movies Share. But just like SB it creates a new Movie share on disk10 (mnt/disk10/Movies/Movie Name/File.mkv) but yet the Metadata (.nfo, .tbn files) are properly copied over to the share somewhere on disk4 thru disk9.

 

Now I've tried excluding disk10 on the shares, didn't work, the only thing that does is XBMC can't see any of the files on disk10 when looking at TV or Movies. I've cleaned disk10, rebooted, and again it creates new shares.

 

So I have no idea why it keeps insisting on moving everything to disk10. Do I have the split level set wrong? is some other setting wrong? I've looked in the syslog and it doesn't show any error pertaining to the files being bounced somewhere else.

 

Thanks for the help.

what about the config.ini files?  what do they say?  remember, if u edit the config.ini, be sure to shut them down first.  Otherwise, the changes you make might not stick.

Config.ini files under SickBeard and CouchPotato? I never edit the config.ini files as all the settings are changeable in the program. I'll check the config.ini files, but that wouldn't explain why both programs write the Metadata in the right places, and not move the actual video file.

 

Does Unraid check where the files are, specifically when copying from a drive to a share, and see whats the fastest course of action?

Config.ini files under SickBeard and CouchPotato? I never edit the config.ini files as all the settings are changeable in the program. I'll check the config.ini files, but that wouldn't explain why both programs write the Metadata in the right places, and not move the actual video file.

 

Does Unraid check where the files are, specifically when copying from a drive to a share, and see whats the fastest course of action?

I don't use CouchPotato.  But in Sickbeard not all the changes I would make on the program itself would be carried over to the config.ini file.  It wasn't until I made the changes in the config.ini file that the changes were used by Sickbeard.

 

Although my problems were with the cache and logs being stored and written to a location that I had not chosen.  It wasn't until I looked in the config.ini that I noticed the small discrepency in the filepath.

FYI, I have seen a very similar issue moving a file from one share to another share. The moved file did not follow the share split level setting. In this case, I was moving files from a share on disk1 into my Movies share that exists on disk1 and disk2. The Movies share split level setting and existing directories meant that the moved files should have been moved to disk2. However, they just moved to the new directory location on disk1, creating a duplicate directory in the process.

 

Peter

 

Lionelhutz, That is a known issue. It is caused by how 'mv' and Linux's file system works internally and how the user shares (/mnt/user) are provided. It prefers to simply move directory inodes instead of entire data nodes.

 

If you absolutely must move files from a location to another share that also includes the drive the file is already on, then you need to use the absolute drive numbers:

 

eg: (Assuming the Movies share includes disk1 and disk2)

mv /mnt/disk1/Movies/MovieToMove /mnt/disk2/Movies/

So really the way to solve this would be to run a cache drive. Let Unraid handle placing all the files right?