From 7669c1e784c54b3aa5d90b465e460655ab4579d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donald Webster Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:46:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Destroyed Unable to Import Existing Movies and Custom folder structures (markdown) --- ...ng-Movies-and--Custom-folder-structures.md | 23 ------------------- 1 file changed, 23 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Unable-to-Import-Existing-Movies-and--Custom-folder-structures.md diff --git a/Unable-to-Import-Existing-Movies-and--Custom-folder-structures.md b/Unable-to-Import-Existing-Movies-and--Custom-folder-structures.md deleted file mode 100644 index d852f92..0000000 --- a/Unable-to-Import-Existing-Movies-and--Custom-folder-structures.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -Most people have a question of why they cannot import existing movies. This article is meant to explain why and answer any questions you may have on the matter. - -As you may or may not know Radarr is built off of Sonarr. Sonarr doesn't allow custom folders when it comes to storing your TV shows. Radarr is taking the same approach for the mean-time because the amount of refactoring and testing we'll need to do to support the million ways people store their movies. We hope to add functionality in the future to support a custom folder structure for your movies, but currently it is not possible. - -In order for your existing movies to be picked up by Radarr we require you to have the movies in their own folder. - -**For example** a Root Folder of **Movies/** would be in the following format: - -`/mnt/Movies/A Clockwork Orange (1971)/A Clockwork Orange (1971).mkv` - -**Another example**, a root folder of **Kid Movies/** would be: - -`/mnt/Kid Movies/Frozen (2013)/Frozen (2013).mkv` - -**Another example**, a root folder of **A-D\** would be: - -`X:\Movies\A-D\A Clockwork Orange (1971)\A Clockwork Orange (1971).mkv` - -One downside to this structure is that you'll need to manually manage each movie you add, configuring its base directory by hand. The same would be true if a genre or rating structure were used. - -To wrap it all up, as long as you have a root folder and within each root folder the movies have their own folder you'll be able to import into Radarr. - -Please refer to [this wiki article](https://github.com/Radarr/Radarr/wiki/How-to-Create-a-Folder-for-Each-Movie) on how to automate moving the movies into their own folder. \ No newline at end of file