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So why is SB grabbing shows before they even air? I just noticed that i'm trying to pull in multiple episodes that happen to be password protected .rar files. These episodes have not even aired yet. I thought SB only looked once the air date had passed... Any thoughts?
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Fake downloads mate. Check the search providers you have enabled in Sickbeard. I've had to disable nzbx.co and nzbzombie due to this.
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i dont know if this is the best place for a feature request, but id like a little more functionality in the custom quality area for episodes, specifically when to use the archive function.
I think there should be 3 headings:
existing: what quality is required for archive to search for better releases
initial: what quality only for *new* downloads
archive: what quality to replace existing files with existing requirements (above)
I dont want to download any new SD releases (unless HD are definitely not available, like for a show pre 2000s), but some of my (HD available) tv shows have SD episodes for various reasons. Id like to update all of these to HD as they are available, but i dont want new releases to be downloaded in SD, then replaced by HD.
currently, i would need to use the custom episode quality, and for initial set SD, HD and for archive set 720br, 720web. but this will replace current 720web releases with 720br, which doesnt matter to me, and it will still download SD releases first (cause SD needs to be in initial for archive to process it).
with my proposal, i can set the following and it should work as i want:
existing: SD
initial: HD
archive: HD, 720br, 720web
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hi all, I just migrated from Windows to Linux and didn't take any of my config with me, and now I can't work out when it has downloaded stuff, why SB isn't processing it to the correct season folder, but actually outside of the seasons structures.
I.e. it's putting TheShow's S01E01 into
/TheShow
Rather than
/TheShow/Season1
any ideas please ?
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thanks for the quick reply.
Assuming you mean Manage > Mass Update, I have 3 options per show:
Quality
Flatten Folders
Paused
Is "season folders" one of these? Or have I got the wrong menu?
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thanks the zoggy! that is indeed much better now! I will test it out with the last ever US office now... sniff.... :'-(
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Has there been any word on an official patch to deal with failed downloads? Becoming a bigger and bigger problem, and running off of unraid I'm not sure about forks etc - the slightest little change seems to break the plugins for me.
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I would also like to see something done about failed downloads. Also, it seems to be searching for episodes that have not yet aired and is pulling down incorrect episodes.
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Nah, generally those files are password-protected. This indicates that this is part of some kind of scheme (like the "Fill out survey to download your file"-OCH).
However - it'd be nice to see some kind of handling for failed files (like CP already has in place) as well as a logic to only check for episodes after they already aired (but, as far as I know this is already in place; You have to look into the specific show if there is an old listing with an old air-date - happenend a lot for example with the Simpsons to me - if there is, force a full-update and see if SB picks up the new listing.
In general I'd propose something like CouchPotato is already doing: Monitor Sabnzbd's queue for the downloads SB put onto there and if one fails, try to snatch another release. Also: Only look for episodes which have already aired.
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