SABnzbd Forums

This may belong in the post processing forum, if so, my apologies.

After banging my head on it for a few days I decided to to a very un 'guy-like' thing and ask for directions...

So I had everything working on my linux server and decided to move everything to a windows box to consolidate (probably my first mistake...)

Here's the setup:
Server running 2008 R2 standard
C drive (internal)
E drive (eSata) - not doing anything at the moment - future storage
F drive (eSata)

I have Sick,Sab and Couch installed. I got annoyed, so I gave everyone full access to the F drive. It should have recursed all the sub directories and nothing in the logs seem to indicate a permissions issue.

All of my media is stored on the F drive, so, F:\TV Shows, F:\Movies. Whats happening is that when SAB downloads a TV show, it saves it to F:\TV Shows, but isn't creating any subdirectories, so I may have a folder at F:\TV Shows\The Simpsons\, but its saving the episodes at F:\TV Shows\episode.avi/mkv etc.

I don't have any thing fancy going on, and its not using sabtosickbeard (though I tried that too with similar results). The categories look like this:
Category=tv shows
Priority,Processing,Script = default (default for processing is +Delete)
Folder/Path=F:\TV Shows\*
Groups/indexer tags=tv_shows

TV Sorting String= F:\TV Shows\%sn\Season_%0s\%s.n.s%0se%0e.%ext which says its processing to: F:\TV Shows\Show Name\Season_01\Show.Name.s01e05.avi
Interesting to note, when I set the Affected Category for TV Sorting to 'tv shows' and save, the highlight disappears. But if I set it to Default, it does not. I don't know what (if anything) this means.

Sorry for this long ass post.. just a little bit more.

I have debug turned on for the logs and I looked at some of the logs from my old setup and after it downloads it says something like: Found TV Show - Starting folder sort (show name), but I don't see this happening in the current install. I think I've exhausted all the google search terms I can think of and I just know this is going to be something simple thats staring me in the face... Any ideas?

The risk of a long description is that it's hard to see what the issue is.
What does actually go wrong?

Heh, no worries, I realize that was a bit of a read.

Basically, when SAB finishes, it sticks the TV Show into F:\TV Shows instead of F:\TV Shows\tvshowname\season_xx\file.whatever or something along those lines. I had this working when it was on ubuntu, but for some reason the same logic I used to set that up didn't work for windows.

It may be caused by the * at the end of your base path for the TV category.
Why did you put it there? It basically means "don't bother with folders".
The fact that you have a full path in your Sort expression should override the base path, but maybe it doesn't.

You must highlight every matching category in Sorting.
It's a multiple select box, use Control-Click to select multiple categories.
After that click Save.

I tried it without the star and I ended up with folders, but not folders created as per the sorting instructions. As for highlighting, I suspected this might be the culprit, but for some reason it won't save if 'tv shows' is highlighted, but it will if 'default' is selected.

causalloop wrote:As for highlighting, I suspected this might be the culprit, but for some reason it won't save if 'tv shows' is highlighted, but it will if 'default' is selected.

That's the only explanation. "Tv shows" isn't active for Sorting.
I have no idea why, works fine here.
Just to make sure, create a TV category without spaces in the name and use that instead.

Well, that fixed the category not saving. I'll get back to you on if that fixed the rest of it (I suspect it will).

Yep! That did it. I knew it was going to be something simple like that. Thanks!

Still strange, because for me it works fine with spaces in the name.
Which web browser are you using?

Mostly I use chrome, I didn't think about it being a browser thing... I wouldn't imagine characters being substituted by the browser though.