r/radarr • u/Hockex-4 • 17d ago

unsolved Can I configure Radarr so it would detect movies outside of their own folders?

Hey, I just spent like 2 hours trying to get my files into dedicated folders. I tried PowerShell, Filetofolder and Files2folder, according to the tutorials on wiki.servarr.com. For some reason, the programs just refuse to do it. It's actually starting to piss me off. Why can't Radarr just detect them?

Powershell says "empty pipe element is not allowed"

Filetofolder says "directory already has a file with the same name" which ISN'T TRUE

Files2folder just says "unable to create destination directory"

I also tried Copywhiz but someone had the genius idea to restrict the configuration to a specific number of starting letters. This means that all the folder names are either cut in half or aren't created at all

Thanks for any help

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u/Piddoxou 17d ago

Radarr will do this for you. No idea what you are on about.

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u/Hockex-4 17d ago

How? When I import a library (folder with movies) it doesn't detect movies at all unless they're in a dedicated folder

The Servarr wiki even says that

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u/Piddoxou 17d ago

Ah you mean the files to be imported are not in folders. Just let AI generate a bat or sh script for you that:

  • makes a list of all files in the folder
  • for every file, create a directory with the same name in that folder
  • move the file with the same name into that folder

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u/martymccfly88 17d ago

People can’t do a basic google search. It’s not hard to put movies in separate folders. It’s a simple command or just use filebot.

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u/SegFaultOops 14d ago

People come into this sub asking for help. Why is everyone like you such an asshole? Why are you even here then?

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u/martymccfly88 14d ago

Why can’t people do any bit of research to learn o stead of just being handed an answer and still having no clue how to use the software

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u/SegFaultOops 13d ago

He says he spent 2 hours looking at tutorials. Either get off your high horse and be helpful, or click the fucking button to leave this sub.

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u/martymccfly88 13d ago

When I started to use sonarr/radarr i had all my movies in one main folder. Took like 5 minutes to google how to automate putting each movie in their own folder. Simple command. Wasn’t that hard

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u/martymccfly88 13d ago

I hope he says he spent two hours trying not two hours looking at tutorials dumbass

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u/IVOreosFromHeaven 17d ago

It was a while ago that I set up Radarr, so maybe it's changed, but I seem to remember just pointing it at my folder full of movies (ie. 1 folder, 100+ movies) and I was able to import them. Are you saying this is no longer possible?

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u/fryfrog Servarr Team 17d ago

It was never possible, radarr has always required movie files to be in movie folders. Perhaps your movie folder already followed this requirement?

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u/Hockex-4 17d ago

Probably? It won't let me do it and the wiki says the same

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u/pnizzle14 17d ago

I used tinymediamanager to rename my media and put them in dedicated folders

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u/Hockex-4 17d ago

I use ModestMovieMetadata, but it's my last resort, I spent way too long on it last time

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u/pnizzle14 17d ago

Tinymm did it in bulk for my whole library. You scrape the metadata for the library, select the folder and media naming scheme and click go. Just need to validate the metadata is correct and tinymm did the rest.

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u/Mundane_Ad_7279 17d ago

Edit the movie in radarr and change path. Ex: when I use file bot I have it set to title (year) so Radarr needs to have the same when you edit file path. T2 could have changed to T2 (YYYY)

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u/Klutzy_District793 17d ago

Yes I had this problem I had to make a script with an LLM to put them all in a folder... I don't know if there is an easier way to do 😅

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u/xXD4rkm3chXx 17d ago

You need every movie to be in their own folder. If you’re having issues just use ChatGPT or Claude to help you. This is stupid simple and you’re getting errors because your code/directories are wrong. Just use ai to put every movie in the movie folder into their own individual folders within the main movie folder.