I dont see any reason why NZBDrone is asking for a path when I want to add a brand new tv series I’ve never downloaded before. I dont need NZBDrone to rename or process anything. I only need it to send nzbs to the blackhole directory I already specified. Below is the error I get after I specify TV show and quality profile:
[Warn] NzbDroneErrorPipeline: Invalid request Validation failed:
– Invalid Path
You need to define a path so it can move the files after your download client downloads them. Even if you didn’t want drone to move them you still need to define a path.
If drone isn’t set to move them (via the Drone Factory) it will treat the episodes as missing and attempt to redownload them as they will be considered missing.
Thanks for the quick reply! I think I’m getting the hang of it. I’m hoping I can just specify one parent directory path for every TV show; such as “D:\downloads”; and, let NZBDrone be smart enough to search sub-directories recursively for appropriate media files.
PS: Why does NZBDrone console keep saying, “[Warn] DownloadedEpisodesImportService: Drone Factory folder is not configured”
It shouldnt presume I need to configure one. I already have an external app that searches any media files and renames them automatically.
Yes, just specify a folder and it will put the series in there (it will create a folder for each one)
As stated above its going to treat anything as missing if it wasn’t sorted by drone (drone assumes the download failed). In your scenario I would recommend the following setup (I’ll use example file folder names):
Drone Factory - D:\Downloads\TV
TV Show Directory - D:\TV Shows
You would then have have your download client download files to D:\Downloads\TV then drone would sort them to D:\TV Shows and then have whatever program you use to sort them to their final destination from D:\TV Shows
Also enable “Ignore Deleted Episodes” on Media Management settings in drone and it will ignore them once it detects the files as deleted, instead of marking them as missing.