Have it leave my files where they are.
I have a folder structure and existing PDF's and pictures that I want to leave in their location already. I do not want paperless to consume them and move them. I just want it to be a search engine where I can tag files.
My folder is about 20 gigs of business data with many PDF's and scanned pictures.
I have set it up
>PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_DELETE_ON_SUCCESS=false
>PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_SUBDIRS_AS_TAGS=true
Unfortunately, that did not work. As far as I can tell, it moved all my PDF's.
AI is hallucinating, saying the primary culprit is typically a setting called PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_RECURSIVE=true interacting with an ambiguous duplicate detection policy. In older build versions, when Paperless detects an exact hash duplicate inside a deeply nested recursive directory, it can trigger a cleanup function to purge the duplicate from the landing tree—accidentally ignoring the main global deletion override flag.
The problem with that is, I am 99% sure it's not "duplicates" because I can look at unique pdf's that were in my folder, but are not after paperless scanned it.
Is putting the volume in Read Only mode the only way to fix this?
Appreciate any help.