Activity Queue with existing library

I just moved from sickrage and have a small library of about 1500 episodes. I continue to seed these and thus they are in my client. I do not wish to use categories. That said, I found that I can go to /activity/queue and click manual import. This does almost exactly what I want which is

  1. remove the item from the activity queue
  2. name it according to the settings I have in sonar

However, when running a manual import, you are provided 2 options, copy or move. Initially, I assumed move would follow my settings and attempt to hard link the file. The hard linking works perfectly on normal downloads from Sonarr. When clicking move using manual import, it literally moves the file, forcing me to go back and hard link it again so it can continue seeding.

I would like the following options

  1. mass import on the activity queue, with the expectation that the original file (if not named properly) is removed and the ‘source’ named appropriately in the final directory
  2. provide an option, in addition to move/copy, to allow hard link (potentially with a fallback to symlinking)

Hopefully I explained the shortcoming and need eloquently enough, but if there are questions or extras needed, I will provide them.

disregard the portion about hard linking, the notes said to request things on the forums first so I didn’t review GitHub. I found https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/issues/606 which indicates that copy will result in the desired action.

My feature request for mass ‘manual’ import still stands, unless there is a way to do this that I’ve missed.

That’s not possible as manual import in that context is for a single download. You can use Manual Import on Wanted: Missing though.

If the files are already in the series folder from Sickrage, you can move the downloads to a different label in your download client and Sonarr will ignore them.

Having sonarr ignore the files definitely doesn’t meet the hope for
mass import on the activity queue, with the expectation that the original file (if not named properly) is removed and the ‘source’ named appropriately in the final directory

It sounds like you are suggesting that using manual import on the Wanted: Missing page would accomplish the task, however, sonarr doesnt recognize my collection as missing, it recognizes that it’s all there and just shows around 1500 episodes in the activity queue. My hope is to have sonarr take over the files, which i know it can do, since it does via manual import. I just dont want to click manual import, click a checkbox, and click copy 1500 times.

Hence my feature request :slight_smile: If this isn’t possible, so be it.

You don’t need to re-import files if the file has already been sorted and isn’t missing. Moving them to a different label is the easiest way to have Sonarr not bother.

It doesn’t matter if they’re missing or not, manual import there will still work and as long as the path matches the path your download client says the file is at. Once imported Sonarr will remove things from the activity queue.

And I’m saying what you want with your feature request would do the same thing that Manual Import on Wanted Missing does.

I’m not sure how to quote, but in your 2nd reply, it sounds like this is the answer. Sorry if I was too obtuse to understand it if this was your point initially! I will give this a shot, thanks!

I figured out how to quote, ahh the small things in life. I tried out your suggestion and it works quite well in some cases. My season packs were downloaded in folders and I can set them as the search root, run manual import, tell it to copy, and things occur exactly as I’d like. However, if I select the root tv downloads directory, which has 316 items as of right now, sonarr will time-out when I click manual import. I plan to look for some time-out setting , but either way, thanks for your patience in explaining to me where the option was!

I believe we can close this feature request! Keep up the great work sonarr team!

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