force recheck only works for torrents containing a folder

[yhorndt]

Hi,
I recently reinstalled my server and saved the .torrent files (not the rest of the session files).
I went from manual installs of rtorrent/rutorrent to a swizzin install of both.
Currently running 0.10.0/0.14.0 and rutorrent 5.1.5.

So I loaded every torrent file into rtorrent by placing the files inside the .session folder.
All torrents have automatically been set the download directory, but there are no files there.
I've made symlinks to the various folders where the media is stored.

When I have a torrent that has a folder inside of it, everything works as expected. Force recheck starts checking up until 100%. When I change the save at path and start the torrent, it checks the data and starts seeding.

However, when I have a torrent that contains just a file, it can't see the file. When I force recheck it stays on paused. When I start it, it starts downloading, overwriting the file in some way. When I remove data & torrent, it removes the original file.

At first I thought that it might had to do something with spaces in the filename, but I tested it with a file without spaces, same problem.
I tried changing the permissions of the file, even tried 777, no dice.

Not sure where to go from here.
If this is more of an rutorrent issue, I apologize and will remove the issue, but I figured it could be related to anyone of the two.

[rakshasa]

RTorrent likely doesn't like symlinks to files.

[mirolm]

As far as i know people use hardlinks to continue to seed files and organize them as they like with *arr/plex/jellyfin. There are downsides to that but well nothing is perfect.

[rakshasa]

Symlinks behave differently to hardlinks.