• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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        5 days ago

        but seeding more does not cost storage. why not let it seed until you delete it?

        if it’s so that you can see which ones can you delete, just click on the ratio column to sort by that, and check which ones have a higher ratio

        • llama@lemmy.zip
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          5 days ago

          Because most people aren’t using the files as stored in the download folder. They’re renaming it, moving it to another folder, and deleting all the extra files. So you’d have to store it twice basically.

          • dmention7@midwest.social
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            5 days ago

            This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.

            Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.