Quade wrote:No matter how smart you are, you cannot overcome the stupidity of some of the posters who make their par sets include all kinds of unnecessary files.
I'm not getting this either. You can filter out any files you want after the unrar now too.
Here I thought you guys were sick of me explaining this, and it turns out you have no idea what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about posters who, for example, screw up and somehow include a bunch of par files as required files. In other words, somebody posts a 4GB DVD and includes 10% pars, or 400MB of pars. But when he was creating the pars, he forgot to include a cover photo or something, so he added that and then recreated the pars, forgetting to delete the first set of pars, so now the 400MB of pars are included as required files in the new par2 file. So after Newsbin downloads the complete, perfect file, it still thinks it's 400MB short, because that's what the par2 file is telling it, so it downloads another 400MB that is not needed.
If that's never happened to you, you're lucky. It's happened to me several times. And that's when Newsbin is doing everything right.
My ISP (the only one in town) has a daily bandwidth quota, so stuff like that prevents me from downloading something else that day.
So no matter how perfect you make Newsbin, you can't prevent it from downloading unwanted pars. That's why I keep asking for a switch, or nbi file line, to let me turn off the part that automatically downloads par files when Newsbin thinks it is short of blocks.
Right now what I have to do (with V5) is delete the pars out of the par tab as soon as Newsbin puts them there, so I can use the autopar tab to track the progress of a download without having to worry that Newsbin is going to download a bunch of files I don't want. If a file is short of blocks, I want to decide myself what to do about it. Sometimes it's a case like the example I just gave, where the file is really complete, but the par2 file is wrong. Sometimes it's such a crappy upload that there aren't enough par files to fix it, so there is no point in downloading any par files.
The V6 beta I tried is unusable for me, because it puts the par files in the download list, and I can't delete them without deleting the whole file. When I was testing it, I had autopar turned off most of the time. One time I turned it on so I could see what somebody was talking about in the properties list, and it immediately downloaded a bunch of unneeded par files for a file that was in progress at the time.
You can filter out any files you want after the unrar now too.
I know I can't dissuade you from spending weeks and weeks on all these tweaks to autopar that I will never use, but jesus god I wish I could get you to take an hour to put in a switch to turn off the automatic par downloads.