Won't work until I open post and update

I was pulling images in with IFTTT and it was working like a charm. My rss feed stopped working in IFTTT, so I changed to a wordpress plug-in called WP Pipes.

I’ve changes the settings all different ways, but the image will only save to local and set as featured image once the post is opened in edit mode and updated. Even a quick edit will not get the image and set it.

The posts are set to Publish when they are imported. I tried changing it to Saved with same result.

Am I setting something wrong or missing something?

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/qqworld-auto-save-images/