Hell no, My downloads folder in my media folder are completely different. I copy everything from downloads to media It gets renamed, possibly resampled. The torrents are left in the original folder to seed unmolested.

Every once in a while I go through my torrent list and just tell the client to destroy the torrent and files for anything that I don’t care to seed anymore. Zero chance of it breaking my actual store.

Hard links are a built-in feature of basically every modern filesystem. The bigger question to me is, why aren’t hard links working for you?

services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun
    container_name: gluetun
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    environment:
      - DNS_ADDRESS=
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - SERVER_CITIES=
      - FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS=
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      # Provider readmes: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/tree/main/setup/providers
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=
      #- VPN_TYPE=openvpn
      #- OPENVPN_CUSTOM_CONFIG=/config/custom.conf
      #- VPN_TYPE=wireguard
      #- WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=
      #- WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=
    ports:
      - 6767:6767       # bazaar
      - 7878:7878       # radaar
      - 8118:8118       # privoxy
      - 8191:8191       # flaresolverr
      - 8787:8787       # readaar
      - 8989:8989       # sonaar
      - 9091:9091       # transmission
      - 9696:9696       # prowlarr
      # You can add an forwarded listening ports your VPN provider might have here as well.
    volumes:
      - /data/gluetun:/config
  bazarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr:latest
    container_name: bazarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /data/bazarr:/config
      - /share/downloads/movies:/share/downloads/movies
      - /share/downloads/tv:/share/downloads/tv
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  flaresolverr:
    # DockerHub mirror flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
    image: ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
    container_name: flaresolverr
    environment:
      - LOG_LEVEL=info
      - LOG_HTML=false
      - CAPTCHA_SOLVER=none
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  privoxy:
    image: caligari/privoxy:latest
    container_name: privoxy
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  prowlarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
    container_name: prowlarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /data/prowlarr:/config
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  radarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:latest
    container_name: radarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /data/radarr:/config
      - /share/downloads/movies:/share/downloads/movies
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  readarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/readarr:develop
    container_name: readarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /data/readarr:/config
      - /share/downloads/books:/share/downloads/books
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  sonarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:latest
    container_name: sonarr
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /data/sonarr:/config
      - /share/downloads/tv:/share/downloads/tv
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  transmission:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/transmission:latest
    container_name: transmission
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME= #optional
      - USER= #optional
      - PASS= #optional
      - WHITELIST= #optional
      - PEERPORT= #optional
      - HOST_WHITELIST= #optional
    volumes:
      - /data/transmission:/config
      - /share/downloads/movies:/share/downloads/movies
      - /share/downloads/books:/share/downloads/books
      - /share/downloads/tv:/share/downloads/tv
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: service:gluetun
  watchtower:
    container_name: watchtower
    image: containrrr/watchtower
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    network_mode: service:gluetun