Path is an ancestor of an existing series - Resolved

[Travis_Manzer]

Hello,

My PC with Sonarr and SABNZB on it had a hard drive fail. Luckily I had a backup of Sonarr that I put on my other PC along with SABNZB.

The TV files are held on my QNap.

On this PC I can get to the QNap shares using these paths using windows explorer. \qnap\Multimedia\Shared Videos\Videos\TV | \QNAP\Multimedia\Shared Videos\Videos\TV

Here is an example of what comes up in my logs. Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: \QNAP\Multimedia\Shared Videos\Videos\TV\iZombie S04E13 720p HDTV x264-SVA-Obfuscated\

I run Sonar as a service under a personal account.

When I try to change the path of a show to \QNAP\Multimedia\Shared Videos\Videos\TV I get this error. Path is an ancestor of an existing series

I’m not sure how to fix this error.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sonarr version (2.0.0.5163):
Windows 10:

[markus101]

@Travis_Manzer

When I try to change the path of a show to \QNAP\Multimedia\Shared Videos\Videos\TV I get this error. Path is an ancestor of an existing series

Each series needs it’s own series folder, you can’t change it to have all series use a single folder or make a series folder be a parent/grandparent of another series (which is what is being done here).

If you want to change the path for all series, use Series Editor where you would pick the root folder (parent folder to each series folder).

[Travis_Manzer]

Thank you! I used the Series editor and changed all my series to \QNAP\Multimedia\Shared Videos\Videos\TV\seriesname

I could make the change and it shows on my series, but still will not move the file to the series folder and rename the file.

The log shows my mapped folder, but Sonarr series shows the unc.

Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Sonarr: Z:\Shared Videos\Videos\TV\iZombie S04E13 720p HDTV x264-SVA-Obfuscated\

[markus101]

That path comes from the download client, if that path isn’t accessible, use Manual Import on Wanted: Missing.

You’ll probably want to have a separate folder for unsorted files so they aren’t mixed in with sorted files.

[Travis_Manzer]

Thank you very much for your help. Everything is working now.

I had to replace my Folders and Categories mapped folders with the UNC.