Recently finished setting up all the ARR services and I already had a lot of movies placed in nice folders for collections. Upon import into radarr it does not like this and fails to see most of them. I said fine and went into some of my collection folders to read the movies in there and then it complains about “Multiple root folders are missing for movie collections:” . So not only would I have to add root folders for each collection but then I have to go back through and rename each one of those to be what radarr wants them to be? Is there any way to automate this I looked through there wiki and didn’t see anything about collection making. Or do most people not put movies in actuall collection folders such as movies/Star Wars/Star Wars Episode One file
Thank you
No, I don’t think most people do that. I would wager that most people don’t even have multiple root folders. I do, but that’s only because I sort things into anime and non-anime, because I use different profiles with different custom formats to fetch each type of media.
The usual way to store media in Sonarr/Radarr is:
/root folder/movie name/movie file. You can get more complicated than that, but why would you? There’s not really any practical benefit to it, unless you’re navigating the folders by hand when you want to play something, and have a lot of media. For example, Radarr doesn’t care if you have 100 movies in individual folders in the root. It’s not a human, so it has no problem telling you which movies you are missing from each series on the Collections tab, and can fetch the remaining movies automatically.Ok thanks. I gather that now it will be much faster for me to rip out all of my ‘self made collections’ and re import everything into radarr than doing what I mentioned in my post. I went crazy with manual collections and would take hours… most movies are in
/root folder/movie/movie name/movie fileformat but some get crazy like/root folder/movie/DC/Animated/Batman/batmanMovieFolder/MovieYeah, that won’t work. You can customize a little on how Servarr apps store media, but the biggest rule is that the paths for movies must always be consistent. Get your name format set up in Media Management, then be sure to put a checkmark on the Rename Movies box before you import. Doing that will let you make sure Radarr renames everything to be more legible to you.
I recommend setting up Radar using the TRaSH guides. https://trash-guides.info/
Thanks yea I just followed that to get hard links but it did not cross my mind to change anything with old files…