Sonarr not handling files as expected

[DLlasa]

Setup is with Docker with LSIO containers using docker compose all on a single RasPi 4 with latest rasbian, everything with latest versions and recently updated

Issue i am having is with Sonarr, i select an episode, do the search, Sonarr gets the torrent from a private tracker and passes to qbittorrent.

qBittorrent properly does the download, but the download is put into the root downloads directory.

./usbdrive/media:/downloads

i am not sure how to get it so the downloaded file(s) are put into the right series/season directory.

When the download is done, Sonarr shows the activity queue item as yellow with the following
“No files found are eligible for import in /downloads/tvshow.name.nn.nn.mkv”

I am not sure what additional info from me is needed and I don’t want to just put in a wall of text from my configs. Since this topic is mainly Sonarr and qBittorrent, i will list those from my docker-compose.yml
Just let me know what else might be needed

version: '3.7'
services:
  torrent: 
    container_name: qbittorrent
    image: linuxserver/qbittorrent
    ports: 
      - 4098:4098
      - 8080:8080
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - ./torrent:/config
      - ./usbdrive/media:/downloads
  plex:
    container_name: plex
    image: linuxserver/plex:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
      - VERSION=latest
    volumes:
      - ./plex/config:/config
      - ./plex/transcode:/transcode
      - ./usbdrive/media/Television:/data/Television
      - ./usbdrive/media/Movies:/data/Movies
  sonarr:
    container_name: sonarr
    image: linuxserver/sonarr:preview
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8989:8989
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - ./sonarr:/config
      - ./usbdrive/media/Television:/tv

in searching for similar issues, i saw others were having similar issue and maybe its something with the directories not being set, but i couldn’t extrapolate the right fix for my situation.

Thank for any help

[driz]

you’re missing a volume for sonarr. you’ve given it /usbdrive/media/Television with no visibility into the actual download folder. you just have to follow the directions.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/sonarr

-v /config      Database and sonarr configs
-v /tv          Location of TV library on disk
-v /downloads   Location of download managers output directory  <--this

in your sonarr compose add - ./usbdrive/media:/downloads

[DLlasa]

thanks i knew it was the directories, but i somehow missed that. i had been copying and pasting the docker-compose, but screwed that one up along the way or was thinking about it wrong.

thanks for the help

[driz]

no problem, ensure you accept the response if it resolves your issue

[DLlasa]

i will, im testing it now

[driz]

if you enjoy using hardlinks (who doesn’t) you may want to do something like
- ./usbdrive/media:/media

then for downloads it’d be /media/ for downloads, and /media/Television for tv /media/Movies for movies

that way, sonarr can hard link files from /media to /media/Television, saving previous disk space

for example, my *Arr has
- /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Big-Data:/media
my plex has

- /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Big-Data/Music:/media/music
- /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Big-Data/Movies/:/media/Movies
- /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Big-Data/TV:/media/TV

and my transmission has
- /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Big-Data/BT:/downloads

under sonarr, download client, remote path mapping, i have remote path /downloads/TV/ to /media/BT/TV/

this way, sonarr is able to see transmission download the file via /media/BT/TV/ and once completed, hardlinks it to /media/TV/ with appropriate naming. if they are seperate volumes, you can’t hardlink (from what i’ve seen at least)

[DLlasa]

awesome, i was just noticing that while sonarr seems to be now working, the downloaded file is in two locations.
with what you mentioned, sonarr will move the file and leave a hard link so that the download client can still seed it?

[driz]

yes, sonarr can copy it or hardlink it. copying will use double the space, hard linking will only use 1x the space. it will appear as 2 files, but occupying the same inode.

[driz]

@DLlasa one note i forgot to mention is when you hard link, this can’t be across filesystems or volumes. so if you download to /dev/sda and plex reads from /dev/sdb you would have the file in both locations, whereas if both are on /dev/sda but different folders, they could occupy the same space physically while logically in both folders. HTH