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

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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago

Or do most people not put movies in actuall collection folders such as movies/Star Wars/Star Wars Episode One file

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.