How does Sab know if its a movie or a tv show?

[tucansam]

I have two shares:

 

/mnt/user/movies (exported as "movies")

/mnt/user/tv_shows (exported as "tv_shows")

 

SB downloads shows and CP downloads movies.  But how does SB know to put movies in the movies directory etc?  And its not creating season folders in the tv_shows share.  In fact, I have a "movies" directory in the "tv_shows" share and all of my content is downloaded there... mostly unorganized (in directory names called "show_season_episode").  I thought I'd seen folks online with show/season/episode/files as their structure, which is what I'm trying to do...

 

Anyway, there are permissions things going on apparently as I have to use chown/chmod from the command line to move content around to the proper place (can't do it from Windows explorer) and moving a file with a ton of strange characters in it (like you get with usenet downloads) means it takes me hours by hand to organize my stuff.

[Influencer]

https://github.com/Influencer/UNplugged/wiki/How-to-setup-Sab-and-Sickbeard-in-unRAID

 

That should explain how to set everything up. Couchpotato is pretty simple, from the Renamers settings, check rename downloaded movies, fill out the information there.

 

As for your title question, it uses the categories to know whether its a movie or tv show

[joyless]

check "categories" in SAB config. create two - lets say "movies" and "tv", each with it's own folder and post-processing.

you can either set download category manually, or config couch potato to set category "movies" and sickbeard category "tv" for you.

[lionelhutz]

Yes, categories for separating tv and movies. Try the post processing settings in SickBeard to setup the way you want the directory structure and file naming. I don't recall the default, but I had to modify both to get "Season XX" directories and a file name format like sXXeXX - name.mkv.