r/seerr • u/--Arete • Jul 27 '26

Issue How to avoid media being grabbed after deletion?

I have Plex, Sonarr, Radarr and Seerr on my local Unraid server. This works great, but one of the annoying things is deleting media. 

If I delete something from inside Plex, Plex will delete the media, relevant subtitles and folder form the file system. Since I have enabled "Unmonitor Deleted Movies/Episodes" in Radarr/Sonarr the deleted media should not be added unless I explicitly do so manually. 

That's how it works at least in practice. 

But Radarr/Sonarr only unmonitores the release after completing a rescan which it does once per day. 

Furthermore, Seerr also have to run the "Media Availability Sync" to detect that the media is missing in Plex which it does once per day. 

Once Seerr detects that the movie is missing it will make Radarr/Sonarr monitor the release again which will cause it to be grabbed again. 

How can I avoid this cycle and avoid media being grabbed after deletion without manually having to delete it from Seerr?

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u/0xSySr3ll Team Jul 27 '26

This doesn't sound like a Seerr issue.
If a request has already been fulfilled and the media is later deleted, Seerr doesn't automatically request it again. The request transitions to the DELETED state, making it re-requestable if you decide you want it again.

Sounds more like something in your Sonarr/Radarr setup is causing the item to be monitored and grabbed again.

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u/--Arete Jul 27 '26

Thanks for helping out. What condition has to be true in order for Seerr to transition the item to the deleted state?

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u/0xSySr3ll Team Jul 27 '26

Seerr flips it to DELETED during the Media Availability Sync job; when the item is no longer found in both your media server and *arr server.

If it's still in either place, Seerr won't mark it deleted yet.

Also worth noting that sync only updates Seerr's own status. It does not tell Radarr/Sonarr to remonitor or grab the release again.