Why does sonarr keep re-downloading the same episodes?

I’m new to Sonarr and really like what it does as I used to do this all manually. Everything seems to be running nicely, but I’m curious as to why it keeps re-downloading the same episodes and deleting them? Here’s a screenshot of my history:

My quality profiles are slight adjustments to the standard ones set up. In this instance I have web-dl 720p as the highest priority and cutoff, so it should stop after successfully adding that one, right?

Thanks!

After further investigation on this episode specifically I think the problem lies in the fact that it was downloading a web-dl 720p, but for whatever reason the file name after it copies to my library did not specify that and said HDTV instead. I manually renamed it to say web-dl and it stopped doing this.

Any ideas what might cause sonarr from incorrectly identifying / renaming releases forcing it to get stuck in this endless download loop?

Its because the file name at the time of import did not contain WEBDL, either because something else renamed the file and removed it or the file name was trimmed and its missing (SABnzbd has a setting that will do that, other download clients may as well).

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