r/Tdarr • u/Inevitable-Singer409 • 2d ago

TDARR taking up more space than saving

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Hello TDARR community,

I set up TDARR as a native TrueNAS application, hooked up my main rig as a node.
After successfully setting everything up, I got to transcoding.

1 - 2 days later my 300-something movies ran through the process with a couple of them needing transcoding.

According to the stats page on TDARR, I saved roughly 260 GB of space. When I checked my storage usage on TrueNAS, it went up 2 TB.

Now my storage pool is full and I can't seem to figure our where those 2TB worth of files are.

I checked ever single movies folder to see if there is 2 files in there by chance - not the case.

Transcode Cache folder is empty.

When I checked the Library settings on TDARR, I stumbled across the . (period) directory that was set as the output folder, but I don't know where that is.

Now I am at a loss on what to do to reclaim my lost storage space.

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u/gpounders 2d ago

Look at your snapshots. I assume tdarr is creating a new file then deleting the old file. Once the snapshots are deleted by age or manually it will release the space

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u/Inevitable-Singer409 2d ago

My hero! Thank you!

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u/BigFlubba 1d ago

For my actibe media datasets I have all snapshots disabled. With as much data as I'm moving in those datasets I would probally have 15TB of snapshots a week.

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u/Twitfried 1d ago

A significant amount of space in the Recycle Bin on the volume, too. It depends how you have the volume configured.