What's the workflow for dealing with stalled torrents?

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I understand there’s a request already present for improving this functionality, so this isn’t a request for that, but to understand what the ideal workflow is to handle this manually in the meantime?

It seems like to do this “properly” I need to identify stalled torrents in my torrent client (because there isn’t an “date/time added” value in sonarr to sort by in activity. Then look the item up in sonarr, go to history, mark the torrent as failed, so that it’s blacklisted. Then manually delete the torrent from my torrent client. This triggers an automatic search for the next viable torrent.

Is this the best I can do, or is there some other workflow that will be more convenient and work better?

Thanks for any advice

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You can identify the stalled torrent in your client and then remove it from history, which will allow you to blacklist it and remove it from the client in one request.

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Hi Markus

Thanks for your response. I just tested this, and I thought I did what you suggested which is:
Go to specific series page, click episode title, click “history” tab, press the X for “Mark as failed”.
This in my case did not remove the torrent. (Completed and imported torrents are removed correctly, mind you).

My setup page has: Completed Download Handling: Enable Yes, Remove: Yes. Failed Download Handing: Redownload : yes Remove: No (the ? option for this says, remove from history)

Does the removal of the torrent take some extra time, or is my Failed handling incorrectly set up?

thanks

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Sorry, I meant to say remove it from Activity: Queue. Removing + blacklisting from history will not remove it from the download client.

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Thanks, that does indeed work properly. One thing I’ve noticed while doing this is that if I sort on series title, alphabetization doesn’t seem to be sorted correctly. It looks roughly proper on page 1, but if I page over to page 2 or 3, there can be series that start with A that should have been on page 1. Should I raise an issue for this?

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I’ll have to take a look at that.

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When I went to look (after pruning the items I had in activity) I only had one that was out of order and it started with “A Series of”. I hope that’s not too specific but enough information for you.

(After thinking about that for a minute, I realized that’s probably by design :slight_smile: Sorry!)

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Yes that’s by design, A, An and The are ignored when sorting.

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