Explanation of Sonarr sections

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Hi there-
Recently decided to try out Sonarr over SB and even after reading through documentation, have a few questions Im hoping someone can help answer. First, can someone explain what the following sections are for:

  • Activity >Queue
  • Activity > Blacklist
  • Wanted > Cutoff

I have additional questions related to some of the statuses for items under these sections, but hoping some will be answered once I have a better understanding as to what these are for.

Thanks!

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Currently downloading or waiting to be imported, things that fail to import will also be here.

Failed downloads will be blacklisted and shown here (so they can be removed if you wish).

Cutoff hasn’t been met so Sonarr is looking for better quality releases still (on RSS)

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What do you mean by “waiting to be imported”?

Also, Im unclear as to what the following statuses mean. Here are some examples:

  • Download wasn’t grabbed by sonarr, skipping. Im seeing these on failed download attempts prior to Sonarr being installed. If I want Sonarr to reattempt, what should I do here (click the Remove from download client?)?
  • No files found are eligible for import in [tv episode download folder]. Im seeing these on successful downloads performed prior to installing Sonarr. Some of these files still exist (unwatched) and others have been deleted because I watched them (and therefor dont need the file any longer) or the file was incorrect (and therefor need to download again). Further, in Series view, these episodes have a status of Episode is Downloading - 100%. What’s the best way to handle episodes with this status?

Also, how does Sonarr know of these downloads that occurred prior to it being installed and used?

As for the Cutoff media, to clarify, these are files that have been previously downloaded, but do not meet the quality I’ve specified (e.g. downloaded SD, but specified HD), correct? If thats the case, let’s say I am fine with the quality that has been downloaded for some files, whats the best/easiest way to indicate that and remove files from this list.

Hope this all makes sense…

Thanks!

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Something that hasn’t been imported yet, could have failed to import or hasn’t attempted yet (Something in your download client’s history).

Remove from download client and search for it from Sonarr (as the message says Sonarr won’t do it manually)

Remove them from your Download client’s history.

It can only know if there is a file on disk, for the case of things being deleted you will need to unmonitor them.

Unmonitor them. https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/Monitoring-Series-and-Episodes

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It seems as though the queue is rebuilding itself based off everything in SABnzbd history - this includes successful and unsuccessful downloads long before Sonarr was installed. Another strange thing is the queue always shows 18 items. If I delete 1 it’ll go down to 17, but when I refresh the page, it shows another item and is back to 18 again. Does this sound right?

Also, what is the does the Force Import on this page supposed to do?

Thanks.

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It gets the last 30 items in the history, then uses the ones in the specified category in the download client settings in Sonarr.

You can either leave them at this point and let them get removed over the course of downloading new ones or change the category to a new one, which will clear it out.

It will force Sonarr to retry the import, which is useful when the title doesn’t match properly (needs a scene name exception).

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Thanks for the prompt replies.