So I have a question about how Sonarr handles downloaded files from Deluge. I’m currently having an issue with Deluge where the extractor plugin is not properly extracting the file. I realize that is a Deluge issue, and I’m currently working through it on the Deluge forums.
However, in the meantime I was hoping I could just manually do the unpack myself in the torrent download folder and have Sonarr see it and automatically grab the file once I extracted it. I just tried this ~15 minutes ago, but it looks like Sonarr hasn’t grabbed it yet. Does this simply take a certain amount of time? Do I need to pause the torrent download in Deluge so that it stops seeding before Sonarr will grab it? Or do I need to do a computer restart to force it to grab?
So I just paused the torrent in Deluge, extracted it myself, and did a computer restart. I’m seeing that Sonarr successfully copied and renamed the file into the proper directory.
So consider this closed, but I would be interested just for the knowledge gain - were doing all those things necessary? Was a computer restart needed, or would it have happened eventually without one? And did I need to pause the torrent to get it to pull over?
I got it to work - I’m just not sure which knob I turned fixed it.
Sonarr checks for completed downloads every minute (unless there is a large group of tasks blocking if from running), so it should have picked it up shortly after it was extracted, without debug logs its impossible to say why it didn’t process it, but a computer restart very likely was not required.