Series not in expected place, files disappearing

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#1

Sonarr Version 3.0.10.1566
Mono Version 6.12.0.122
Mac Mini M1 - Ventura 13.3.1 (a)
Sabnzbd 4.0.1 [1263068]

Here’s a strange one ( to me ).
I recently connected a larger 2Tb drive to my Mac mini in addition to a 1Tb I already had. At the same time I decided to update the Sabnzdb file to the latest version.
I decided to copy the TV and Movie folders to the larger drive and redirect all future actions to place new TV episodes to the larger drive.
When a new episode was downloaded it was sent to the old drive and the folder copy on the larger drive had its contents removed.

I had changed the ‘TV’ category in Sabnzb config to point to the new destination and the history shows a correct path for the downloaded file.

             /Volumes/Toshiba2TB/Complete/TV/Barry/Season 4

I left the User folder as
/Volumes/Seagate1TB/Complete

Series sorting was enabled with,

         %sn/Season %s/%sn - S%0sE%0e - %en.%ext

On Sonarr the root folder is /Volumes/Toshiba2TB/Complete

Any help gratefully accepted

#2
  • Disable sorting in sab
  • Don’t use the same directories for sab (downloads) and sonarr (sorted series)
  • Let only sonarr be in charge of the sorted series folder: let sab download to a separate (temporary) location, and let sonarr pick up the files and move/rename them to the sorted series folder.
#3

thanks for suggestions.
i disabled sorting in sab but got confused with the rest, the only location entry i see for sonarr is when asked about root folder path in media management, which i set as /Volumes/Toshiba2TB/Complete -

is sonarr root folder path supposed to be the same as sabs Temporary download folder or its completed download folder?

do i delete the sab category for ‘tv’?

  • i did dl a tv program through sonarr and went into the correct series folder but on the wrong drive.
    as you can see I’m totally confused with whole thing.
    thanks for your patience
#4

neither, it should be something outside of the sab path structure so theres no possibility of conflicts, eg /Volumes/Toshiba2TB/downloads/sab/... for sab, and /Volumes/Toshiba2TB/tv/... for sonar

when you changed drives did you go into the series > mass editor and update the root folder to the new location for all the existing shows you had? or did you leave them on the old drive/root folder?

adding/removing a root folder(s) under settings > media management just changes the locations you can select in the dropdown, it doesnt actually move/change anything that already exists.

#5

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