Would it be possible to add a feature that allows you to keep original files after they have been processed (if you choose to) of your downloads? For one, it becomes very tedious looking over your TV Shows directory (imagine a collection of 250 shows), through every folder, just to fish out latest episode(s) downloaded recently/today etc. Shouldn’t be very hard to implement, as an option one would tick a box if needed etc.
While adding the setting wouldn’t be overly difficult it would cause drone to continuously rescan the same files over and over unless another mechanism was implemented to avoid that behavior as well as changing how the episodes are imported, so in the end its harder to implement than suggested. Unless there is a compelling number of people wanting this feature I really don’t see it being one we look at adding.
To find recently downloaded episodes you can use the history page. I personally use XBMC to manage what episodes I still need to see, new and old.
Well, its more about being able to keep original files for reference and easier access if needed so to speak rather then to watch them…
Reference for what? And easier to access to them?
I don’t really see how having 2x the files makes things easier, it seems like keeping the file is a solution to a particular problem, but maybe there is a another way to achieve what you’re looking for.
I agree with Markus, I really don’t see the point.
If you really need it, Just write a script to run with sab to offload a copy to a different directory.
I think a better solution would be to somehow implement a folder shortcut into the client (assuming this is possible, I have no idea). When you click on history, make it have a clickable link to the directory right next to the (i). It currently lists the file, but you would have to manually copy and paste.
@PinkyThePig unfortunately browsers block that and instead open the links themselves (instead of windows explorer). There are plugins that can change that behaviour, but we have opted not to rely on that.
Probably the best thing would be to just be able to set up a directory to dump a copy of files NZBDrone processes into.
As for the point, there’s numerous possible reasons.
I use a simple post processing script in SB to copy files it processes to an external HD so I can move them to an offsite backup NAS (I get a lot of fairly niche stuff that tends to become impossible to get again right about the time a HD decides to fail 
). A coworker uses the same script so he can mirror downloads to take to his brother every couple months who lives in the middle of nowhere without decent internet access.
There’s lots of reasons one might want to have a copy of new files separate from your main library. And a Sab script won’t copy the post-processed file so that doesn’t work well.
Yeah, a post processing script might get interrupted (depending on when SAB renames the folder), if drone processes it.
This one might help though: https://trello.com/c/mCJyYeZl/122-custom-notifications-similar-to-sab-post-processing-scripts
Just a thought, but as strange as keeping original files sounds it will help a lot when torrents are added, especially if tvtorrents.com is added as deleting the original file will interfere with seeding.
Yeah, we’re aware of the torrents scenario, not sure how that will be handled yet.
Don’t know if this helps - but i think this is kinda what the OP is after (?)
I have Drone setup to send downloads to SAB with a specific category “tv shows” - SAB downloads everything set to this category into folder A (which is specified in SAB relating to the “tv shows” category).
Folder A is my “new stuff to watch” folder.
Once i’ve watched an episode, i manually move the file to a another folder (folder B).
Drone is setup to monitor “Drone Factory” folder B. When i’ve watched the episode and moved it, Drone automatically picks it up and moves it into my show library and updates the relevant listing in drone.
Hope this post was useful (if not, just ignore me!)
p.s. I like the idea of having a clickable link to the folder/file, although as Markus said not sure how that would work without browser plugins