Completed Download Handling Issues

  1. Since you’re using preferred words, make sure SAB is configured properly. If SAB is configured incorrectly that can lead to issues: Sonarr downloading duplicate episodes that aren't upgrades, sometimes exact duplicate NZB

  2. Correct, Sonarr does not remove completed downloads that it does not import, an import failure is not a download failure

If I remove the files from the download client OR if I remove the files from queue, Sonarr instantly starts a search and begins a new download for that file. This to me says it is seeing it as a failed download at that point.

It’ll only search if you tell Sonarr to blacklist the release, which is the same as Sonarr detecting it as failed on it’s own.

PS Edit your posts instead of double posting.