I am not even sure if this is a sonarr or sabnzbd issue,
or maybe just something I configured wrong.
empty folders are left at the same level of the different series folders with names of specific episodes.
e.g. if my completed folder is …/TV and it has
…/TV/SERIES1
…/TV/SERIES2
then I would find a folder
…/TV/SERIES1 S0xE0y episode name
and it is empty and the file that was inside it was moved to …/TV/SERIES1/Season 0x
It sounds like you have SAB unpacking to the same location where your shows live, you should change that for a bunch of reasons, in this case it SHOULD be cleaned up (if not logs should say why).
Could you be more specific - which SABnzbd settings should I check?
I have on folder for temporary download folder (a local folder on my machine)
a different folder for “Completed Download Folder” which is on a mounted share for my NAS (/mnt/share/downlaods/complete)
under categories I have “tv” with /mnt/share/TV which (i expect to be) the root folder for all downloads.
should I put something in the Groups / Indexer tags for this category?
In Sonarr under downlaod client I have Drone Factory set to “/mnt/share/downlaods/complete” (same as “Completed Download Folder” for SABnzbd).
and In the details for Sabnzbd under Download Clients I have category set to TV.
Any help on what I am doing wrong would be appreciated.
Don’t use Drone Factory, use Completed Download Handling (CDH) - set Drone Factory to a different folder, such as /mnt/share/downloads/complete/drone_factory, use that folder if you need to import something that didn’t come through SAB or Sonarr is having issues renaming it (and you need to rename it manually). Make sure CDH is enabled on Download Client settings (it will talk to SAB to figure out what to import).
Don’t have SAB drop files in /mnt/share/TV if thats where your sorted TV shows also go, put them into another folder and let Sonarr sort them, such as: /mnt/share/downloads/complete/unsorted_tv. You never want to mix sorted and unsorted files, most of the time its a non-issue, but if the folder isn’t deleted your folder is full of undeleted folders (if its a separate folder you select them all and delete them), but if Sonarr had an issue its entirely possible that it deletes a sorted folder by mistake thinking it was unsorted (lots of checks to prevent this, but why take the risk).
Thanks for all your help so far.
I am trying to follow on your advice.
Item 1 seems clear - I changed the Drone Factory folder as you recommended and CDH is indeed enabled.
The second
However I am not sure I correctly understood Item 2.
Are we talking about the Categories seting of SABnzbd?
I now changed the tv category to point to /mnt/share/downloads/complete/unsorted_tv
but where should the final destination for the sorted series (/mnt/share/TV) should be defined? (SABnzbd? or Sonarr? - and in which settings?
Sonarr, it was defined when you added the series to Sonarr.
oh… I see now.
I was not aware of that because I just imported the series that where already there…
(when reinstalling sonarr on a new machine after old one died)
So I think its all set up properly now…
files are being downloaded locally - moved to /mnt/share/downloads/complete/unsorted_tv and then imported by sonarr.
I think I got it.
Thanks a lot for all your help.