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Ahoi! Lately my Sonarr has been downloading .exe files from Lime and EZTV a lot. Someone deliberately pushes them just befor an episode airs and Sonarr happily grabs them. They don't exexute, but still mess up my auto downloads.

Is there a way to prevent Sonarr from downloading them all together? Or at the very least re-download a proper release after noticing the exe file?

I also have private trackers as backup, but prefer public where I can contribute more by seeding to 1:100+ ratios.

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[–] maj@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] gdbjr@piefed.social 6 points 8 hours ago

Please forgive this long list. But in the downloads settings of qbittorrent and in the exclude file names I have this list. I never had issuea with exe files but used to get a lot of ISO files. Now I don't have that problem. And no issues downloading my media.

(sample).

*.0xe

*.73k

*.73p

*.7z

*.89k

*.89z

*.8ck

*.a7r

*.ac

*.acc

*.ace

*.acr

*.actc

*.action

*.actm

*.ade

*.adp

*.afmacro

*.afmacros

*.ahk

*.ai

*.aif

*.air

*.alz

*.api

*.apk

*.app

*.appimage

*.applescript

*.application

*.appx

*.arc

*.arj

*.arscript

*.asb

*.asp

*.aspx

*.aspx-exe

*.atmx

*.azw2

*.ba_

*.bak

*.bas

*.bash

*.bat

*.bdjo

*.bdmv

*.beam

*.bin

*.bmp

*.bms

*.bns

*.bsa

*.btm

*.bz2

*.c

*.cab

*.caction

*.cci

*.cda

*.cdb

*.cel

*.celx

*.cfs

*.cgi

*.cheat

*.chm

*.ckpt

*.cla

*.class

*.clpi

*.cmd

*.cof

*.coffee

*.com

*.command

*.conf

*.config

*.cpl

*.crt

*.cs

*.csh

*.csharp

*.csproj

*.css

*.csv

*.cue

*.cur

*.cyw

*.daemon

*.dat

*.data-00000-of-00001

*.db

*.deamon

*.deb

*.dek

*.diz

*.dld

*.dll

*.dmc

*.dmg

*.doc

*.docb

*.docm

*.docx

*.dot

*.dotb

*.dotm

*.drv

*.ds

*.dw

*.dword

*.dxl

*.e_e

*.ear

*.ebacmd

*.ebm

*.ebs

*.ebs2

*.ecf

*.eham

*.elf

*.elf-so

*.email

*.emu

*.epk

*.es

*.esh

*.etc

*.ex4

*.ex5

*.ex_

*.exe

*.exe-only

*.exe-service

*.exe-small

*.exe1

*.exopc

*.exz

*.ezs

*.ezt

*.fas

*.fba

*.fky

*.flatpak

*.flv

*.fpi

*.frs

*.fxp

*.gadget

*.gat

*.gif

*.gifv

*.gm9

*.gpe

*.gpu

*.gs

*.gz

*.h5

*.ham

*.hex

*.hlp

*.hms

*.hpf

*.hta

*.hta-psh

*.htaccess

*.htm

*.html

*.icd

*.icns

*.ico

*.idx

*.iim

*.img

*.index

*.inf

*.ini

*.ink

*.ins

*.ipa

*.ipf

*.ipk

*.ipsw

*.iqylink

*.iso

*.isp

*.isu

*.ita

*.izh

*.izma ace

*.jar

*.java

*.jpeg

*.jpg

*.js

*.js_be

*.js_le

*.jse

*.jsf

*.json

*.jsp

*.jsx

*.kix

*.ksh

*.kx

*.lck

*.ldb

*.lib

*.link

*.lnk

*.lo

*.lock

*.log

*.loop-vbs

*.ls

*.m3u

*.m4a

*.mac

*.macho

*.mamc

*.manifest

*.mcr

*.md

*.mda

*.mdb

*.mde

*.mdf

*.mdn

*.mdt

*.mel

*.mem

*.meta

*.mgm

*.mhm

*.mht

*.mhtml

*.mid

*.mio

*.mlappinstall

*.mlx

*.mm

*.mobileconfig

*.model

*.moo

*.mpa

*.mpk

*.mpls

*.mrc

*.mrp

*.ms

*.msc

*.msh

*.msh1

*.msh1xml

*.msh2

*.msh2xml

*.mshxml

*.msi

*.msi-nouac

*.msix

*.msl

*.msp

*.mst

*.msu

*.mxe

*.n

*.ncl

*.net

*.nexe

*.nfo

*.nrg

*.num

*.nzb.bz2

*.nzb.gz

*.nzbs

*.ocx

*.odt

*.ore

*.ost

*.osx

*.osx-app

*.otm

*.out

*.ova

*.p

*.paf

*.pak

*.pb

*.pcd

*.pdb

*.pdf

*.pea

*.perl

*.pex

*.phar

*.php

*.php5

*.pif

*.pkg

*.pl

*.plsc

*.plx

*.png

*.pol

*.pot

*.potm

*.powershell

*.ppam

*.ppkg

*.pps

*.ppsm

*.ppt

*.pptm

*.pptx

*.prc

*.prg

*.ps

*.ps1

*.ps1xml

*.ps2

*.ps2xml

*.psc1

*.psc2

*.psd

*.psd1

*.psh

*.psh-cmd

*.psh-net

*.psh-reflection

*.psm1

*.pst

*.pt

*.pvd

*.pwc

*.pxo

*.py

*.pyc

*.pyd

*.pyo

*.python

*.pyz

*.qit

*.qpx

*.ram

*.rar

*.raw

*.rb

*.rbf

*.rbx

*.readme

*.reg

*.resources

*.resx

*.rfs

*.rfu

*.rgs

*.rm

*.rox

*.rpg

*.rpj

*.rpm

*.ruby

*.run

*.rxe

*.s2a

*.sample

*.sapk

*.savedmodel

*.sbs

*.sca

*.scar

*.scb

*.scf

*.scpt

*.scptd

*.scr

*.script

*.sct

*.seed

*.server

*.service

*.sfv

*.sh

*.shb

*.shell

*.shortcut

*.shs

*.shtml

*.sit

*.sitx

*.sk

*.sldm

*.sln

*.smm

*.snap

*.snd

*.spr

*.sql

*.sqx

*.srec

*.srt

*.ssm

*.sts

*.sub

*.svg

*.swf

*.sys

*.tar

*.tar.gz

*.tbl

*.tbz

*.tcp

*.text

*.tf

*.tgz

*.thm

*.thmx

*.thumb

*.tiapp

*.tif

*.tiff

*.tipa

*.tmp

*.tms

*.toast

*.torrent

*.tpk

*.txt

*.u3p

*.udf

*.upk

*.upx

*.url

*.uvm

*.uw8

*.vb

*.vba

*.vba-exe

*.vba-psh

*.vbapplication

*.vbe

*.vbs

*.vbscript

*.vbscript

*.vcd

*.vdo

*.vexe

*.vhd

*.vhdx

*.vlx

*.vm

*.vmdk

*.vob

*.vocab

*.vpm

*.vxp

*.war

*.wav

*.wbk

*.wcm

*.webm

*.widget

*.wim

*.wiz

*.wma

*.workflow

*.wpk

*.wpl

*.wpm

*.wps

*.ws

*.wsc

*.wsf

*.wsh

*.x86

*.x86_64

*.xaml

*.xap

*.xbap

*.xbe

*.xex

*.xig

*.xla

*.xlam

*.xll

*.xlm

*.xls

*.xlsb

*.xlsm

*.xlsx

*.xlt

*.xltb

*.xltm

*.xlw

*.xml

*.xqt

*.xrt

*.xys

*.xz

*.ygh

*.z

*.zip

*.zipx

*.zl9

*.zoo

*sample.avchd

*sample.avi

*sample.mkv

*sample.mov

*sample.mp4

*sample.webm

*sample.wmv

Trailer.*

VOSTFR

api

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thiiiink Settings -> Profiles -> Release Profiles and find "Must not contain" and add offending file formats.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Unless they've recently implemented it, that doesn't match on file extensions. Use the minimum file size instead.

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

Thanks! This should prevent most

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ahh! Thank you! I searched for this same question last week and didn't find good answers. Some use extra programs via the API, and one mentioned what I did. Too bad, it's sort of a no-brainer.

Guess I'll have to try something else too.

[–] ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You can also go into your torrent and nzb downloader's settings and put extensions that you want ignored and then sonarr, radarr, etc can't send those extensions to be downloaded. Just put *.exe and any other extensions to be ignored.

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Good idea to prevent the download, but will probably still mess up the auto-download of the actual episode. I'd still rather not have the .exe and seed it

[–] ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

It will be a failed download. It wont even download bc the downloader wont download it seeing the extension in banned extension settings. And then radarr or sonarr will choose another option. Understandably a person would like sonarr and radarr to completely ignore those extensions.