Downloads — the download queue
Everything Sonarr and Radarr are currently grabbing, in one list. Tick rows to remove or import them together. Import only applies to grabs that finished downloading but never made it into the library, so it is greyed out unless the selection contains some.
There is no bulk endpoint behind the buttons. They drive the same per-item calls the single-item controls use, run one after another, so a batch behaves exactly like doing them by hand and one failure doesn't take the others with it. Sequential rather than parallel on purpose: thirty simultaneous writes to Sonarr and Radarr is a good way to get rate-limited mid-batch and end up with a partial result nobody can see.
Remove offers the same two choices as the single-item control. The defaults are the seeder-safe pair: drop the arr's queue entry, leave the torrent seeding, don't blocklist. The bulk controls are labelled Selected rows, so they are not mistaken for the automatic settings below them.
Automatic — checked every 10 minutes
The box under the bulk controls handles the queue on its own:
- Auto-clear stuck downloads removes a download that finished completely and then sat at 100% for the minutes you set. A partial download that stalled is left for you.
- Auto-import takes a finished download the app couldn't place by its name and imports it to the episode it was grabbed for, but only when that is an upgrade on the file you already have. It imports in copy mode, so a wrong import is a duplicate to delete, not a loss.
- Remove ones that can never import after N hours (default 48, 0 = never) removes and blocklists a finished download with nothing importable in it, such as an archive that was never unpacked, so the app searches for another release.
- A download paused for approval by an Arr Rule is withdrawn once a copy at least as good has been imported. This runs under the auto-import switch.
A release worse than the copy you have says so in its row ("Worse than the copy you already have — auto-clear removes it after N min") rather than "Waiting to import". Arr Rules never search a title or episode that is already in this queue.
Usenet completed folder
SABnzbd's complete folder, checked against your library. Torrents are not in it. Every entry is listed, removable ones first. An entry can be removed when:
- it is already imported: the app's own import history shows it imported and the file is in your library, even if its name can't be parsed; or
- it can't be imported: an empty folder, or a name no Sonarr or Radarr recognises that was never imported, once it is older than the same "can never import" hours as above.
A title the app knows you are missing is never removed. Remove what's already imported, or can't be imported, automatically (every 6 hours) does this on a schedule, and is off by default.