Version
4.0.16.2944
.NET
Yes (6.0.13)
Database
Sqlite 3.36.0
Database Migration
217
AppData Directory
C:\ProgramData\Sonarr
Startup Directory
C:\ProgramData\Sonarr\bin
Windows
11
After I was unable to resolve issues with Sonarr, I’m attempting to do a clean install of the latest version. I stopped the Sonarr service, deleted the C:\ProgramData\Sonarr directory, downloaded and installed the latest version, configured the many pages of settings, and almost immediately I see many “Activity / Queue” entries.
The information in the entries is from the old install. Where else is Sonarr saving information? I thought it would all be in the C:\ProgramData\Sonarr directory.
I doubt Windows is any different than Linux in that you may very well have files for Sonarr in multiple places. Might not be a bad idea for someone to put a list together of all locations for Sonarr files on on platforms so peeps have it available. A couple of days ago I took screen shots of EVERYTHING including the series page so on my next OS install I can start completely from scratch.
Including your download client(s) I assume, which is where all items shown in Activity: Queue are shown.
If you don’t want Sonarr to see old items from your download client you have a couple options:
- Remove everything from Queue/History (or change the category for torrent clients)
- Use a different category
I don’t see a way to remove the history entries with either the mobile or desktop view.
You need to remove them from your download client.
You cannot remove items from Sonarr’s history, but that wouldn’t help in this case if you could.
I removed all the history from SABnzb, and all the Sonar Activity \ Queue entries and so far Sonarr appears to be operating like I like it 
Is there a setting in Sonarr I can set that so that it ignores the SABnzb history?
You could turn off Completed Download Handing, but then nothing is going to be processed and as soon as downloads complete they’ll be treated as missing.
What are you actually trying to achieve?
I’m just afraid the “retry” logic is going to cause the loss of my shows again. Just trying to keep things simple.
What “retry” logic?
Unless you remove a series Sonarr won’t try to re-import anything, nor would it delete an existing file unless it has a file to import, your other thread had no logs that showed files being deleted for an import.
Another item that needs to be addressed in version 5.0
This would be my suggestion. I have Sonarr pass my torrents to Deluge and every morning that there are new downloads I open the Sonarr calendar and manually remove the episodes that were passed to Deluge overnight.
Maybe you can explain to me the intent of library import.
I have directories with shows in the format …\show_name\season#\files that I’d like to manage with Sonarr. I copied the file structure to the \Media\TV Shows directory, then performed a Library Import on \Media\TV Shows and it appeared that Sonarr attempted to locate the files in SABnzb history or something, and wasn’t happy with what it found and then deleted the files from \Media\TV Shows.
Now I’m afraid to use Library Import again.
Maybe you can tell me the proper means of having Sonarr manage existing files…
Library Import is meant to import an organized collection of shows (shows with files organized and named in a way that Sonarr understands).
When you connected Sonarr to SABnzbd it would try to import existing downloads, but it wouldn’t delete existing files if there wasn’t a file to import.
Whatever caused the issues didn’t have anything to do with Library Import, nor the already imported files in SABnzbd. I’m not sure what caused those files to be deleted and now that you’ve nuked everything and started again I’m not sure I’d ever be able to tell you.
