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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[–] brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or do most people not put movies in actuall collection folders

That's possible.. I mean there's got to be people using collections the way you're trying to use them but generally speaking media apps like Kodi / Jellyfin / Plex /etc. are scanning movies as

root folder / movie name / movie file(s) or folder

so e.g.

c:\movies\Awesome.Movie.2024\Awesome.Movie.2024.mkv

c:\movies\Awesome.Movie.2024\Awesome.Movie.complete.bluray.2024\

Would be the typical scan folder structure.

That said I don't put stuff in collections the way you're describing so can't speak to how that should work but hopefully there's others here doing collections like that to comment on that.

Worst case you may want to hop into one of the Radarr support channels to ask there, I think(?) they have Discord support.