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If you set \\QNAP\Multimedia\Movies for the category Movie (or the Default category for that matter),
then your Sort expression should be %title (%y)/%title (%y).%ext
I'm quite sure it will work this way.
All paths can be UNC, but possibly there's an issue only inside Sort expressions.

I understand that, but what I am asking is won't that override the download location? I need it to not download to the QNAP, just move there after post processing.

The category folder path is a relative path to the download location it seems to me?

Cheers!

An easier way to explain it, is that I need it to stay on the Windows box until all post processing is completed, and then as the last part of it move it to the QNAP and I think I can only do this by having the path in the Sorting field.

Forgive me if I have misunderstood!

There are three path sources.
Default "complete" path.
Category path.
Sort path.

When the Sort path is absolute, the others are ignored.
When the Category path is absolute, the Default path is ignored.
Otherwise everything is concatenated.
The path-result is used at one time only: to determine the final destination.
The final destination might as well be the QNAP.
Sometimes Sort will do an additional move or rename, which can be done on the QNAP network drive.

I gave it a whirl and whilst it does ultimately end up with the desired result, unpacking is much slower, as it is done on the NAS.

Hopefully you get to fix UNC paths on the sorting string and I can have the best of both worlds :-)

Cheers for your assistance!

I found another issue actually.. My media player software downloads metadata and it picked up the movie as it was being unpacked and downloaded the metadata, but then once unpacking was done, sabnzbd deleted the poster.jpg as I have .jpg set in my clean up files!

So, upshot is I either need UNC path to work in sort string, or I'll have to map a drive!

Cheers!

Edit : I've logged it as an issue on Github for when you get a chance to look at it :-)

Fixed in next release.

You're a star :-)

Hi,

I was reading this thread and psykix's situation closely mirrors my own. I run SAB on my Windows machine and then move stuff to my QNAP. I've gotten the TV post-processing working well but would like to get the movies renamed and moved to the NAS, too. So far I have been using mapped drives but as psykix noted, sometimes Windows will idle them. Is the UNCing working now?

Here's what I have done so far - and please correct me if I've got this wrong - I have a category called moviescat. Like psykix, I want post processing done on my Windows machine. So should I specify the UNC (or mapped drive letter) in Folder/Path in my category for movies? For Sorting, I have checked Enable Movie Sorting and my sort string is Z:\%title.%ext. (Ideally I would like to use \\NAS\%title.%ext)

Also, I don't like having the movie year in parentheses after the movie name. I only want the movie year after the movie name in the case of two (or more) movies with the same title (i.e. Total Recall (1990), Total Recall (2012)) and that's a rare enough occurrence that I am happy to do it manually. Can I suppress the year?

I thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

Tak

The new release with the fix isn't out yet :-(

To suppress the year, just don't include the ( %Y ) so you would just have %title / %title.%ext

And when the fix is released, you would use \\NAS\Movies\%title\%title.%ext for instance.

When you play around with the fields, if you look at the processed results underneath all will become clear :-)

Hi Psykix,

Thanks for getting back to me.

While TV post processing is working fine, the movie post processing isn't working at all. I look at the script log and it just tells me that processing has failed. Here's how I have it set up.

Categories = moviescat. Default priority and processing (maybe the default processing is the problem?) Folder/path is the path where SAB downloads the files on my c:\ drive. Group Indexer / Tags is movies.

Sorting I have Generic sorting with moviescat highlighted. Enable movie sorting is ticked. Sort string is Z:\%title.%ext (Z: being the drive I have mapped to my movie folder on my NAS).

Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?

Appreciate the help!

In what way did post-processing fail?
What is the error measage?

TakeshiKovacs wrote:Hi Psykix,

Thanks for getting back to me.

While TV post processing is working fine, the movie post processing isn't working at all. I look at the script log and it just tells me that processing has failed. Here's how I have it set up.

Categories = moviescat. Default priority and processing (maybe the default processing is the problem?) Folder/path is the path where SAB downloads the files on my c:\ drive. Group Indexer / Tags is movies.

Sorting I have Generic sorting with moviescat highlighted. Enable movie sorting is ticked. Sort string is Z:\%title.%ext (Z: being the drive I have mapped to my movie folder on my NAS).

Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong?

Appreciate the help!

I can't see anything wrong with what you are doing - think you'll have to give shypike some extra info :-)

Hi Shypike,

Thanks for getting back to me. Post processing failed in that it did not rename the file to the format I had specified in sorting and did not move it from the Downloads\Complete folder on my c: drive to my NAS. Here is what the script log says. (I removed the title of the movie and replaced it with <MovieName>.)

Loading config from C:\Users\Valued Customer\Downloads\SickBeard-win32-alpha-build500\autoProcessTV\autoProcessTV.cfg
Opening URL: http://localhost:8081/home/postprocess/ ... 264-GECKOS
Processing folder C:\Users\Valued Customer\Documents\Downloads\complete\<MovieName>.2013.LIMITED.BDRip.X264-GECKOS

Thanks!

Processing C:\Users\Valued Customer\Documents\Downloads\complete\Kill.Your.Darlings.2013.LIMITED.BDRip.X264-GECKOS\Kill.Your.Darlings.2013.LIMITED.BDRip.X264-GECKOS.mkv (Kill.Your.Darlings.2013.LIMITED.BDRip.X264-GECKOS.nzb)

Processing failed for C:\Users\Valued Customer\Documents\Downloads\complete\Kill.Your.Darlings.2013.LIMITED.BDRip.X264-GECKOS\Kill.Your.Darlings.2013.LIMITED.BDRip.X264-GECKOS.mkv:

I see that you use SickBeard.
You shouldn't use SABnzbd sorting when you use SickBeard too.
The error messages are coming from SickBeard.