manual searches ask the indexer for everything matching that series id, an automated search only checks the RSS feeds it collects - so make sure you have that option enabled for the indexers you want sonarr to automatically download from. (yes, you can turn them off)
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make sure you have logging set to debug, there should be several debug log files, not just one.