So I recently got Sonarr setup with Transmission and everything is working swimmingly except for one little issue.
I have my Sonarr path for my shows set to: ExternalHD/Torrents/TV Shows/
I have transmission Default location set to: MacHD/Torrents/
I didn’t want to make the paths the same otherwise it might mess up the indexing and I’d have a jumbled mess of more than one copy of each episode in the same folder or something.
So currently my Sonarr path has everything organized neatly and does a great job, the Transmission path has all the same videos files but they are in the original folders and not organized. Obviously I can just delete them, but I’d rather they just didn’t exist. Currently I have Hazel running to delete anything in that folder that is older than 1 week.
Thoughts?
Sonarr will remove them when its labled properly in Transmission (which is just a sub folder) and when the torrent finishes seeding (paused in Transmission I believe).
Thanks for the reply! Really appreciate it. The settings in both apps are a bit overwhelming, so I don’t know exactly what you mean.
Can you explain a bit more? Does it have to do with assigning “Groups” in Transmission?
Sonarr has a field in its Transmission settings to use a category/label - you want that set. In Transmission that means it will create a subfolder in your download folder if you put downloads you grab manually into that same folder Sonarr will attempt to process them.
Label/Category name: sonarr-tv will create a sub-folder named .sonarr-tv (note the leading .).
Thanks for the tip I think that worked.
Well it doesn’t seem to be deleting them. I downloaded 3 “Overhaulin” episodes and one got moved properly to my ExternalHD folder, the others are still in the “.sonarr-tv” folder, but it was not deleted after moving. On top of that it downloaded an episode of “The Americans” which also did not get moved.
Are they still seeding? Sonarr will only remove them when they are finished (Paused in Transmission I believe). If its finished and not being removed please pastebin some trace logs.
http://pastebin.com/2fuT9VHK
There is my log for today from sonarr
3 of the 4 downloads from today are done seeding, only one of the download has been moved and none have been deleted from “.sonar-tv”
Need trace logs, clear your existing logs, enable trace logging then pastebin the result after a few minutes.
Oh sorry, here you go.
http://pastebin.com/Rs4dfdF1
This was after running for about 5 minutes, I started another “old episode” of Overhaulin just to add that to the log. I didn’t wait for the download to finish as I didn’t want to make it too long if it was not necessary. I will add the log file once the download is finished.
Edit: Trying to get an episode that will download fast and also seed fast, so that the log file won’t be too long. Having a hard time finding a good one for that purpose. Do you need a log file like that?
The only two torrents being returned by Transmission are:
and
Overhaulin.S08E05.Scotts.1963.Cadillac.El.Dorado.720p.HDTV.x264-DHD[et]
Based on the logs the latter (Overhaulin.S08E05.Scotts.1963.Cadillac.El.Dorado.720p.HDTV.x264-DHD[et]) was just added and not yet complete (as you mentioned). The first one (overhaulin.1968.s08e08.james.cougar.480p.hdtv.x264.rmteam.mkv) has a bad title, the 1968 would mean Sonarr is unable to process, import or remove it.
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|Parser|Parsing string 'overhaulin.1968.s08e08.james.cougar.480p.hdtv.x264.rmteam.mkv'
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Trace|Parser|^(?<title>.+?)(?:(\W|_)+S?(?<season>(?<!\d+)(?:\d{1,2}|\d{4})(?!\d+))(?:[ex]|\W[ex]|_){1,2}(?<episode>\d{2,3}(?!\d+))(?:(?:\-|[ex]|\W[ex]|_){1,2}(?<episode>\d{2,3}(?!\d+)))*)\W?(?!\\)
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|Parser|Episode Parsed. overhaulin1968 - S08E08
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|Parser|Language parsed: English
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|NzbDrone.Core.Parser.QualityParser|Trying to parse quality for overhaulin.1968.s08e08.james.cougar.480p.hdtv.x264.rmteam.mkv
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|Parser|Quality parsed: SDTV v1
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|Parser|Release Group parsed:
15-2-5 15:34:52.3|Debug|ParsingService|No matching series overhaulin1968
Gotcha, I am guessing that kat.ph being my indexer may be my problem? Would you suggest I use a different indexer? If so what one?
It doesn’t seem to be moving anything, I have downloaded quite a few episode in the past hour and nothing is being deleted. Most everything is being moved to the other folder at least, with the exception of the overhaulin episode because of what you mentioned (no worries on that one).
No, you’re likely to see the same thing from other sources as well, it happens from time to time, in this case its completely wrong, not a proper alternate name.
It won’t delete until seeding is complete (Paused in Transmission).
I have my seeding set to .1 (just for testing purposes) and the seeding has finished on a few items, but none of them have been deleted.
Do you have Remove Completed Downloads enabled in Download client settings (in Sonarr).
Ok, so now I feel like a total dummy. Sorry to waste your time 
and thanks again for all the help! Should be coasting now.
One last question: On my ExternalHD where everything is stored neatly in folders for shows/seasons what is the easiest way to delete old episodes? Would Hazel be my best bet and just set it to delete anything >2weeks old or whatever?
Actually I tried to set that setting in my download client settings and I get an error:
app.js : 18321
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function
Edit: Restarted the app and it worked saved the setting, disregard
I should have realized sooner as well.
Not familiar with Hazel, so can’t say.
If you’re deleting episodes make sure you enable Ignore Deleted files handling otherwise Sonarr will treat them as missing and grab them again if they pop up on RSS.