Sonarr failed download handling If I disable failed download handling, will that also disable it when it fails during automatic searches? Jan 31, 2015 · I have always had Completed Download Handling (CDH) turned OFF in Sonarr because Drone Factory took care of finished downloads. Oct 14, 2015 · I'm using NZBGet 16. Jul 23, 2017 · Hi, Ive installed sonarr through freenas plugin repo. This appears to be working fine. May 15, 2014 · I’m relatively new to using Usenet for downloading TV episodes, so forgive me if this is something that is “common knowledge”. If nzbget api says the download as failed, then yes, Sonarr will remove the failed download and search for an alternative. I often have results for a file with lots of different torrents. Power. History - Check your downloader's history for failure (eg. Then manually delete the torrent from my torrent client. Mostly a few work, but many are not complete and stall during download. Thanks Mar 12, 2018 · Would it be possible for sonarr to check the status of finished downloads, and if the torrent is removed from the tracker, and the tracker status changes to ‘unregistered torrent’ (or something similiar), than it should mark the download as failed. How to prevent this? Archived post. 2944 - Monitor your favorite series and download a new episode from torrents as soon as it is released, provided it matches your criteria Feb 17, 2025 · This is a Sonarr tutorial overview. I have to manually go in and tell it the download is failed. Hour. out of the box. Most of the folders are empty but some have misc files as well. So it just sits there until I manually intervene. For some file this could be 20+ times Jul 7, 2014 · I had a download fail tonight using SABnzbd but the file downloaded fine after I clicked Retry. Sonarr will automatically block the release and try another one until it finds one that works. And via Torrent files. This means I need to manually go into Sonarr and tag them as blacklist and research. Dec 6, 2019 · Periodically check for 'in-progress' downloads, to see if their torrent has been removed from the download client, and if so, mark them as failed. The one thing I really really want to avoid is starting *Drone from scratch so hoping I can get some help. Sep 17, 2014 · How does/will failed download handling work with torrents? The few times I have got a failed torrent in utorrent I found running a force recheck usually fixes it: Nov 24, 2015 · Any time I try to change the directory to the drone path in Sonarr it tells me, “Failed to save download client settings. 264-NZBgeek Message:Aborted, cannot be completed So it does have the same message as that of SAB’s but Sonarr did not attempt to delete it for some reason as observed in the logs. I understand that I need to use a remote path mapping but have failed to figure out how to configure this method. 7+ I believe). Automatic Failed Download Handling Sonarr makes failed downloads a thing of the past. DD5. Just a mistake in the OP. Nov 9, 2025 · Failed Download Handling: These settings determine what Sonarr does when a download fails. Pretty much whenever nzbtomedia fails a download and sends it back to Sonarr, the failed download handling never picks Schedule automatic download: Once you've configured automatic downloading, you can schedule when Sonarr will look for new episodes to download. After more google searching I went to settings->download clients and I verified that Completed Download Handling option was enabled And remove was disabled - so that explains why the files were not getting removed. Plex Your plex will have libraaries. 0 with sonarr master 2. 16. 264-KiNGS So the log was there but it wasn’t deleted from the History of SAB. I've tried it twice already with the same results. If they're not configured correctly, Sonarr might not retry failed downloads or search for alternative releases. This is the information for that event in Sonarr’s history: Name:Continuum. There are a couple components that make up the failed download handling process: How much stuff did you have Sonarr importing at the time? I notice one import in progress below the failed download, in your screenshot. 5 configured with my Sonarr app, how do you guys make Sonarr recognize that it should delete finished torrents? I have Completed Download Handling option checked at the client conf: Thanks :) Hey there, I have "Failed Download Handling" enabled so that Radarr can grab a different torrent if the current one fails. Nov 6, 2024 · The torrent client itself still has them as an active download and Sonarr still sees it as being in progress of downloading. This is not one-off behavior, it happens consistently. I’ve read the wiki page about failed download handling, and I think I understand what it’s saying. Should this then notify nzbDrone to try a different release? I have ‘Failed Download Handling’ enabled. Jul 19, 2017 · I’m sure I’ll get some flames for dumbness, but I’m at a loss on how to handle Sonarr’s Completed Download Handling on a Freenas 9. It does nothing. Either that, or have a mechanism within Sonarr itself to fail downloads whose progress hasn't changed for a configurable amount of time. For example: 69 articles were missing Aborted… Nov 15, 2014 · Sonarr’s history will show the reason why the release was considered failed and subsequently failed. I have Failed Download Handling setup in NzbDrone but instead of retrying the download it was added to the Blacklist. 5153 OS: Server 2016 Jun 29, 2018 · 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. Nov 11, 2024 · Streamline your TV series management with Sonarr, the premier PVR software for automating downloads via Usenet and torrent networks. not enough to repair, or extraction failed) When Sonarr finds a failed download it May 28, 2021 · Sonarr handled failed downloads for newsgroups well, however it’s not implemented for torrents. How do i set failed downloads to be put on blacklist automatically? I am using Sab for download handling and set it to fail duplicates - i kill downloads that won't finish. Sonarr grabs the release again, Sab fails it but Sonarr grabs it again. I somewhat accidentally grabbed a crapton of movies (remuxescuz i got gigabit synchronous fiber) and let radarr do its thing. H. Jun 19, 2021 · Sonarr’s Complete Download Handling copies the files over to its respective TV show folders but does not delete them Rutorrent takes care of the files on its end, so no issues with that Jan 28, 2018 · Help & Support Cowfod January 28, 2018, 2:30pm 1 Hi, I’m having some strange issues with download handling in Sonarr. Apr 24, 2021 · If the “Completed Download Handling - Remove” option is enabled in settings, Sonarr will delete the original file and torrent from your client, but only if the client reports that seeding is complete and torrent is stopped. Also, I cannot turn off completed download handling; it Jun 11, 2017 · Turn on all of the options under Complete Download Handling as well as Failed Download handling so that Sonarr will delete the downloads from the history once done. I got my first download in Sabnzbd that failed since I started using Nzbdrone. I’m on a windows platform, latest stable release of *drone and using the May 18, 2017 · Sonarr sees that if fails but redownloads the same file, SABnzb marks it as duplicate, Sonarr receives the failed message and starts searching again, finds the same release, sends download to SABnzb etc. When a download fails in sab sonarr recognizes the failed download as long as the reason is written in sab in red letters. But after reading that other guy’s post again, it got me thinking so I enabled it and wouldn’t you know, all of the downloads that were being marked as not grabbed by Sonarr were processed and removed from the Dec 29, 2017 · Sonarr user groups: [dom@Server ~]$ groups sonarr sonarr : sonarr dom nzbget rtorrent Completed Download Handling Enable = yes Remove = no (I assume this should only affect for example nzbget history items) Failed Download Handling Enable = yes Remove = no OS Fedora 26 Sonarr ver: 2. Download Sonarr 4. There is no mention of this issue in my logs. etc. Failed download handling I've set up a scheduled task with an autoremove-torrents script to remove Stalled downloads from my download client after 7 days. The problem is that it doesn't work. 3357. 1080p. Jun 17, 2014 · A TV show ‘Failed’ earlier in sabnzdb due to ‘Invalid par2 files, cannot verify or repair’. Is there another setting I need to check / enable? Jul 30, 2017 · Settings > Download Client > enable Failed Download Handling Sonarr sends release to your download client Download client attempts but fails to download (missing articles, …) Sonarr sees failed download Sonarr searches and sends another release to your download client (if there is one that meets all criteria like quality, size, restricted words etc, as usual) If the "Completed Download Handling - Remove" option is enabled in Sonarr's settings, Sonarr will delete the torrent from your client and qsk the client to remove the torrent data, but only if the client reports that seeding is complete and torrent is stopped (paused on completion). In nzbget the download failed with status: DELETE: SCAN … Thats where Sonarr will put it) For that part to work, the settings in the Download Client should be enabled (first option in the list, completed download handling) Once youve got your head around that. Will Sonarr just re-add the same ones if I search for all missing episodes again, or will it mark the failed torrents as rejected and try other ones? Failed Download Handling is compatible with SABnzbd and NZBGet. Oct 21, 2014 · So I’ve tried, I really have… I’ve spent several months reading posts from the forum with no help. of. IMO it should've replaced the torrents Jul 15, 2018 · Re: Sabnzbd issues with Sonarr by safihre » July 16th, 2018, 6:30 am How did you link SABnzbd and Sonarr? Directly by using the API key or via BlackHole? Also in the Sonarr settings > Download Client, do you have "Failed Download Handling" > "Redownload" enabled? Yes, I have sonarr and radarr both, and recently am dabbling with r (u)torrent, and a new vpn provider. S03E23. Go to settings, general, and schedule Sonarr to check for new episodes at a specific time of the day. WEB-DL. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. This always worked fine but since a couple of weeks the failed downloads are not handled correctly sometimes. Sep 24, 2020 · If you don’t want Sonarr to try and import files, turn off Completed Download Handling, but keep in mind until Sonarr sees the files on disk in the series folder they’ll be missing. repeat (but with a different category) for Radarr Now. Under Freenas storage jails are used to point folders into the internal path of a virtual application like Sonarr, since direct Feb 22, 2015 · So the question I need answered is this, is there any way I can keep filebot going for the sake of organization and the complete/failed download handling on and not have these issues? Edit: honestly there should be an option to point to the folder where it should search for completed/failed downloads (it could be optional). Password protected releases, missing repair blocks or virtually any other reason? no worries. When I ask Sonarr to download, for example, a season of a show and it fails on some episodes it will retry them a few times and then just give up even though there are candidates left to try. 1. Yes this is in Sonarr. 0. Feb 11, 2015 · Do I need to reverse those settings or keep them enabled to support failed download handling in Sonarr? I don’t think so, I know the “Check before download” switch is a problem, but those others look fine to me. Jan 9, 2014 · I got this error message from the “Scheduler” in the logs. . I obviously have API to sab setup and storage as follows: Jail: sonarr_1 source: /mnt/volume/media/tv destination: /media media folder in sonar jail has 777 permisions. This also holds true if you have a post-processing script that checks for spam because a failed pp script is considered a failure by nzbget and thus also Sonarr. Jun 22, 2018 · Set up Deluge to download into an /Incomplete folder and move torrents with the tv-sonarr label to a /Complete/TV Shows folder. But it does not explain why the files are not getting processed if Completed Download Handling has been enabled this whole time. Jan 5, 2014 · What download client are you using? Failed download handling is currently only available for SABnzbd (0. Why is this? Jan 14, 2014 · Sonarr/Sonarr Failed-Download-Handling Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users. I’m simply trying to get around simple propagation issues, for some reason the retries just don’t work. If I go to the calendar or Nov 1, 2012 · Sonarr detects this as a failed download, gets automatically removed and blacklisted from Sonarr's queue but it remains in Sab's history. This is expected as the download was "aborted" before even beginning so no files were downloaded. I’ve tried uninstalling the Sonarr service and running Sonarr in admin mode. Feb 12, 2017 · If the "Completed Download Handling - Remove" option is enabled in Sonarr's settings, Sonarr will delete the original file and torrent from your client, but only if the client reports that seeding is complete and torrent is stopped. This is Oct 2, 2014 · Failed download handling: enabled Redownload (automatically search for and download a new release): enabled Remove: (remove failed download from download client history): enabled Grace period: 2 hours Retry interval: 1 hour Retry count: 1 Could I possibly be missing a setting or two here? Any help would be appreciated! Cheers. Interest. Sonarr will keep downloading an episode, over and over again because it cannot find the file NZBGet downloaded (i think). In that scenario nzbToMedia should trigger a failure in SAB or tell drone it failed, but since drone doesn’t have an endpoint to trigger a download as failed there isn’t much we can do at this time. Then look the item up in sonarr, go to history, mark the torrent as failed, so that it’s blacklisted. If you have established profiles which limit the acceptable downloads or no source is available, Sonarr will continue to monitor the indexers for matching downloads. Oct 29, 2013 · Failed downloading currently only works with SAB (which you’re using, but putting that out there for anyone else reading). Even after setting the min seeds. May 21, 2014 · I had a failed download yesterday but nzbdrone did not remove it from sabnzbd. S04E03. 5085 - 07 Dec 2017 FS: ext4 What am I missing here? This is a problem I've been meaning to ask about for quite a while now. ” I’ve tried restarting Sonarr and my computer. Sep 19, 2014 · I just learned that the awesome failed download handling of nzbdrone only works with sabnzbd, are there plans to make this work with NZBGet? Mar 5, 2015 · Hi there, my setup is sonarr master with sab. Everything works except for Completed Download Handling. Re: Failed download handling issue from Sonarr by kevindd992002 » March 30th, 2016, 5:39 pm If that's the case, at what point does SABnzbd use the folder path set in the TV category? I don't see any files/folders under the temp folder. Is it both Transmission and sabnzbd that are failing to remove the downloads? Check the permissions for the file that's not being removed, does Sonarr have Write/Delete access? Set logs in Sonarr to Trace (temporarily) and download + import/copy the episode, then provide the log if the above doesn't work. It could be a number of things including a failed script, but in any event the nzb was marked as failed within nzbget, for some reason (thats the only reason failed download handling would process it). What problem are Jul 17, 2019 · If Sonarr detects a failed download, would it not search on it’s own? As a user, I see the progress bar and it still in queue, to me that says Sonarr isn’t seeing it as a completed download. Enhance your media setup with advanced file sorting, quality control, and seamless integration with popular download clients. Perhaps someone could take a look at the print screen showing how I have Failed Download Handling setup and tell me what I did wrong. One thing I've noticed, is Sonarr will process the completed/failed downloads one-by-one. Nothing seems to make a difference. Sep 24, 2015 · Yes, there is. Jan 20, 2016 · I’ve just started using Sonarr and for some reason I can’t get failed download processing to work. Sonarr makes it possible to automatically download TV series from the newsgroups. Sonarr fails to delete most of the folders in the TV processing folder. I had a couple of downloads fail last night Oct 1, 2014 · That’s awkward, nzbToMedia is telling drone to scan that folder as a completed download, then deletes it, because it deemed it as failed. 3 installation. I’m getting a couple of different behaviours, neither of which seems correct to me! If the download fails with a ‘Repair failed, not enough repair blocks’, I get a yellow tray icon on the activity queue and a mouseover saying no files are eligible for import. There are a couple components that make up the failed download handling process: 1) Check Downloader: a. Sep 13, 2016 · Ok so failed download handling suddenly stopped working for me today when i first created this thread there were a number of items in the sonarr queue that were failed but sonarr didn’t said it did not grab them. Dec 19, 2015 · My download handling was working well initially but now the failed downloads are not being picked up. None of them have the main show mkv. Hi :) I have qBittorent V4. Set up Sonarr with the following maybe-relevant settings: Rename Episodes: No Create empty series folders: Yes Delete empty folders: No Use Hardlinks instead of Copy: Yes Ignore Deleted Episodes: Yes Completed Download Handling A few things: Sonarr has no knowledge that unrarring is taking place unless the client has a way to communicate that and unfortunately that's not something we see outside of usenet clients Unrarring takes times (more on this later) Completed Download Handling runs every 60-90 seconds Assuming a season pack, if Sonarr imports while unrarring is happening it'd see only one or more of the files Mar 7, 2018 · Help & Support Got3n66 March 7, 2018, 4:26pm 1 Sonarr version (exact version): Version 2. Same goes for completed downloads If a download fails, another search is completed to find a matching download from the available sources. Queue - Check your downloader's queue for password-protected (encrypted) releases b. I've had torrents that were stuck at "downloading metadata" with zero seeders connected or torrents that stalled with zero seeders connected for hours and Radarr did nothing. Depends on what you consider failed download handling. Hi, I've been having some issues with the Sonarr handling with nzbtodrone. I checked the logs and there was the specific log entry for that and it said this: FailedDownloadService Removing failed download from history: Person. But I don’t see any mention of how the Grace Period, Retry Interval, and Retry Count settings come into play. Contribute to Sonarr/Sonarr development by creating an account on GitHub.