Prevent watchlisted item to be added if they are already available

[NetixQc]

Hi there,

Not sure if it's a feature already but it would be great if a movie / tv show is already available on the server and it get watchlisted, it's not added to Radarr & Sonarr.

It's probably a personal issue but my old naming scheme was wrong and whenever a movie get "Watchlisted" even if it's already on my server, it get added to Radarr as missing.

Thanks ! Great software again :)

[jamcalli]

Hello,

Pulsarr uses the Arrs as the source of truth, and not Plex.

It was designed with multi-instance support first, as many users will configure multiple instances for different quality profiles / Anime etc.

If it keeps adding problematic content, you can add that specific content to the import exclusions within the arrs. Pulsarr respects this list.

[NetixQc]

So there's no going around it unless I add everything that's already in my library in the exclusions list?

Not everything is in Arrs

[jamcalli]

You can set your instances within pulsarr to not monitor / search etc. Then let it run and it will grab everything but not actually trigger any downloads. Then switch the instances' settings back, and pulsarr will just think that content exists in the arrs already.

[jamcalli]

That work out?

[NetixQc]

Yes it did but I ended up matching every watchlisted movie manually to the appropriate folder.

I was using Couchpotato before Radarr so all my previous 5000 movies are named like : Folder : <namethe> (<year>) <quality> File : <thename> (<year>)<cd>.<ext>

Doesn't seem like Radarr supports that naming so it's ok for now.

I'm more having an issue when users are Watchlisting new things that are already in the library. It get added to Radarr and I have to go look if it's already there because of my bad naming scheme in the past.

[jamcalli]

Well I'm sure the pain now will be worth it in the long run!