Identical episodes being sent to SAB repeatedly?

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Hi All

Hopefully one of you can help me. I’ve had Sonarr running flawlessly for a couple of months now. Over the past couple of days however I’ve noticed that some (not all!) episodes are being repeatedly snatched, downloaded and unpacked before the process repeats. Here’s an example screenshot from the “History” tab showing the latest occurrence:

…there’s about 5 pages of this. It does eventually stop the loop. I do notice that Sonarr seems to be expecting a WEB-DL, although by time it’s unpacked Sonarr has detected a HD-TV file. Could this be the source of the problem?

I have SAB set up to only include the first 50 (?) or so characters of a folder’s name because I was running into the 255 character folder length limit with SAB processing.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this strange looping behavior?

Regards
Dave

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Yeah, thats the problem, neither the folder or the file name contain the quality so it falls back to the extension (.mkv) and treats it as HDTV720p. If you’re having path length issues move the folders SAB is using closer to the root of the drive, instead of the default C:\Users\Username\Downloads\complete\tv (39 characters) C:\Downloads\tv (15 characters) will be much nicer to work with. I’ve had zero path length issues with TV shows with a similar short path.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is already 33 characters, so its not too surprising its an issue when it gets chopped off at 50 characters.

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Thanks Markus. I thought it was probably something to do with the file-path clipping; I’ll look into altering my SAB config per your suggestion. Congrats on Sonarr – what a neat bit of kit :smile:

Dave