My indexer is NZBGeek and their releases have obscured filenames on them to avoid fast take downs. I’m using completed downloading handling in Sonarr and it does not detect a release with an obscured filename so what it does is it downloads the same release over and over again. Is this something that can be fixed? I don’t want to use the drone factory folder as I know that completed download handling is better. Why don’t you set completed download handling to check the folder name in post-processing instead of the filename to avoid this issue?
We’re aware and working on some improvements for this. It will be fixed in a fire release.
The folder name on occasion conflicts with the file name and we don’t want to blindly accept it as correct.
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Good to hear! Will you kindly reply to this thread when that is implemented already? When is the ETA?
No, you’ll have to keep on eye on the change log, this Trello card might be completed at the same time so you could watch that: https://trello.com/c/wU6kd6i6/778-hashed-files-inside-a-hashed-folder but I don’t respond on the forums when things are added/fixed, too much traffic to maintain that.
We don’t provide ETAs.
Ok. Is there a workaround on this for now though?
Just to rename the file and drop it in the drone factory. Renaming it and letting CDH might work, but Drone Factory will for certain.
Well, Drone Factory checks the folder name instead file name, doesn’t it?
No. It still uses the file name to determine which episode that file is for, it only uses the folder name to determine which series it is.
Ok. So does that mean that if I reverted to using Drone factory (instead of CDH) without renaming the gibberish filename, it will still have that problem? People over NZBGeek say otherwise.
Yes. NZBGeek has multiple ways in which they hash the filename, some are handled by Sonarr, others aren’t.
Is there a way to ignore NZBGeek releases? Any setting in Sonarr that can do this?
Yes, release restrictions on the indexer settings page.
I added a restriction that “must not contain” the word “nzbgeek”. Is that enough for what I want to achieve?
You can test it by doing a manual search for an episode that has NZBgeek releases and it will show that it was rejected if its working correctly.
Has this been fixed already?
Yes, it was in the last release.
Great, thanks!