Hiccups moving Sonarr from Ubuntu to Windows

Help & Support
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I recently recreated my media server in Windows 8.1 Pro and moved it off Ubuntu.

I moved the config files myself.

My series files use to look like this:

/media/archive/TV2/Justice League

Now it looks like this:

Q:/TV2/Justice League

I’ve run into a problem. If I go into Series editor or try to edit one series, sometimes I can navigate, sometimes I can get there unintuitively, and other times I cannot navigate there at all. But if I am successful in getting the path to show in the path field of the form, I can’t save. I click Save and nothing happens, or I click Save and get an error that the path doesn’t exist.

I am happy to just clear out the listings and rescan, but I’m not sure how to go about this. What is the best course of action?

If I try to add new series, and go to Add a New path, the animation just keeps moving and nothing ever shows up in File Browser. If I manually type in “Q:” I can select “Q:\TV2” but when I proceed, it says “Invalid Path”.

I have stopped the service and clicked on the Sonarr icon in Start to open Sonarr, and it still doesn’t work.

2

Its likely a validation issue trying to verify that the path doesn’t conflict with another path, one of the hurdles in supporting a migration between systems with different path types (/ vs \) and one of the reasons why we don’t support it.

You have a couple options:

  1. Rebuild the database by readding shows and settings
  2. Updating paths in the DB directly
3

I think I follow you. Which is better? If “rebuild”, what’s the best way? I still have the original database file from the new windows installation. I put it aside I think.

4

You’d start with a fresh DB to rebuild (Sonarr will create on on boot if it doesn’t exist).