I have a bunch of old TV files that I would like to import and have it make use of sonarr’s renaming so I don’t have to do them all manually. I figured I could just dump them into my completed downloads folder and it would pick it up after the set interval and do its magic, but no luck.
I then tried setting a Drone Factory folder (and putting the files there) and enabling Drone Factory… still no luck.
Can I somehow “trick” Sonarr into thinking these just downloaded so it can do its magic?
Drone factory is the right place to put them, but Sonarr will need to be able to parse them to sort them properly, debug logs should give a clue as to why its failing, likely to do with not being able to figure out which series it is/what episode(s) the file contains as that is the most common.
How are these files named?
There were no logs at all, so I assumed nothing was happening. But I didn’t have it on debug. I’ll check it out.
The files were named like this:
Title of Show SXXEYY.avi
it is missing the episode names, which is why I wanted the namer to do its magic so I didn’t have to.
Anyway, I did it manually. Next time I run into this I’ll make sure to turn on debugging and look closer.