Desperate Plea to make the new 12 hour re-grab setting configurable

[thaRasP5]

There is a new setting with a blackhole client that will re-download an episode if Sonarr does not see it within 12 hours in the blackhole folder. This severely breaks the workflow I’ve developed and have been using with Sonarr for over a year.

I download to a ‘download drive’. I usually target Web-dl’s as my final quality, but have Sonarr setup to also download the HDTV 720p version just in case the Web-dl never gets uploaded and I get both versions as quickly as possible before they get dmca’d. I hold the HDTV version on my download drive and when the Web-dl version arrive I delete the hdtv version and with the Web-DL version I’ll manually create an MD5 file for checking file integrity in the future. This gets copied to the ‘media drive’ in the appropriate folder. I then copy the episode to the blackhole folder and let Sonarr copy it to the media drive. Then about once a week, I sync the media drive to a backup drive.

I do not have Sonarr copy the hdtv version to the media drive to avoid having the inferior quality appear in Kodi, where I’ll have to manually delete it when the Web-dl version shows up and to minimize wear and tear on the media drive.

Up until yesterday, I had complete freedom as to when I did all this. I could wait a week with no problems.

Now, Sonarr is downloading a new version of the episode every 12 hours because of a change in the new version if the episode doesn’t show up in the black hole folder.

This totally negates any usefulness to downloading the hdtv ‘insurance’ version since it will get downloaded every 12 hours until the Web-DL version gets downloaded (which can be almost a week after the hdtv version) and processed by me.

I talked to Taloth about this in IRC and he flat out refused to consider making this a configurable setting.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reconsider.

If the 12 hour window was configurable, I could set it to a large value and continue to use Sonarr the way I have been for over a year. I realize that adding configurable settings can get out of hand, but the new version seriously reduces Sonarr’s usefulness for me.

[markus101]

Mom said no, so ask Dad?

We’re not going to make it configurable, as as Taloth mentioned you could use a delay profile or if you disable CDH it will ignore the existing file indefinitely. Disabling CDH means Sonarr won’t check the Blackhole folder for episode files automatically, but you could write a script to tell it to using the DownloadedEpisodesScan command: https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/Command

Disabling CDH at the moment won’t fix anything, but it will be fixed in a new release that will go out today.

[thaRasP5]

Would turning “Failed download handling” off prevent the re-download of episodes every 12 hours?

[markus101]

Completed Download Handling (CDH), not Failed Download Handling (FDH). If Sonarr isn’t being used to import the only thing we can rely on to make sure we don’t grab duplicates is the history, specifically the grab events as there is no guarantee that Sonarr will ever see the file imported. By toggling CDH off you tell Sonarr to use the history instead of the file status.

FDH also doesn’t apply to Blackhole, only CDH does. Also, for your scenario this is the behaviour of Sonarr before the recent change, once there was a grab event it always and forever was used to determine if Sonarr should grab a new release, it applied to every download client, whether or not CDH was enabled.