I deleted the NZBDrone factory files because I had selected the wrong naming format; thinking NZBDrone would be smart enough to copy them again if they’re missing (and the original unprocessed download directory and media file are still available).
I tried toggling “Ignore deleted files”; however, that didn’t help any. I also tried selecting, “Update Library” and “RSS Synch” several times. How can I get NZBDrone to copy the files again?
Thanks so much for all your support!
If you deleted either the unsorted files (from the drone factory folder) or already sorted files you will need to redownload them. You can always fix the naming format and rename either an entire series or season, but if the episodes were deleted they will need to be redownloaded.
Drone cleans up the drone factory folder after it imports the files (no sense in keeping duplicate files).
Ignore deleted files will mark then as ignored (not wanted), not what you want.
Update library will rescan the disk, adding new files to the drone database it finds, or removing ones from the DB that no longer exist on disk.
RSS Sync just checks the latest RSS feed for episodes
Wow… I had a lot of TV shows in my download’s directory >70GBs!. I didn’t want NZBDrone to delete all my original downloaded files! It would be nice to have an option to at least preserve the original downloaded files in case the processed files are missing, corrupted (which could be recreated automatically, if missing).
Anyway, You had mentioned to redownload them all again in order for the files to get copied back to the NZB Drone factory directory. But, I’m not sure what I need to do to force re-downloading everything again (I currently have ‘ignore deleted files’ disabled). I currently have over 15 TV show listed under the Series section of NZB Drone; but they dont seem to do be doing anything.
The drone factory folder and the downloaded folder need to be the same thing or Drone won’t move anything. Its never going to copy/move something into the drone factory folder, its the folder where your download client downloads to and drone will organize the files for you.
Drone would continuely try to process files in the drone factory folder which is why there isn’t an option to leave files there after processing, if the file is corrupted after moving it to the series folder (and renaming it) then it was likely already corrupt.
Drone won’t automatically search for episodes, You will need to kick off any searches manually. More info: https://github.com/NzbDrone/NzbDrone/wiki/FAQ#how-does-nzbdrone-find-new-episodes
Okay, yes I understand that the download folder should be the same as the drone factory folder.
I also now know that NZBDrone uses RSS feeds to look for brand new TV shows; but I’m not sure why it can’t automatically search for older TV shows and seasons. It seems like a feature everyone would presume would already be there. I remember with sickbeard I could tell it to download automatically any missing shows; even entire seasons.
Edit: I figured out how to do search automatically for an entire Season! Sorry I was just being dense. Maybe I remember sickbeard’s functionality wrong; and, it too could only automatically search for shows with RSS data (last 100 shows or so).
There is a backlog search feature in SB, it will automatically search for missing episodes on some schedule (not sure if it was monthly or what). We don’t have a similar feature in drone because we found it just needlessly hammered indexers when the schedule ran.
I’ve been working a missing search feature that will let you search for missing episodes from the last ‘X’ days.
Thank you for looking into adding an automatic “missing” file search feature!! I can’t wait to see it in action. Hopefully, it’s not too hard to add this feature.
BTW: One of the main reasons I switched to NZBDrone (from sickbeard) is because I noticed (from your older posts) you actually listen to your user’s suggests and good ideas and bugfixes relatively quickly.
I just donated; and, plan on donating regularly! Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
No plans for an automatic search just yet, not sure if/how we want to tackle that, but you will soon have the ability to search for missing episodes from the missing page, a page at a time. Season/Series search is still the best bet for a single series.