I am sorry, but I didn't completely understand your answer. I should have numbered my questions like you did with your answers.
I am indeed using v.6.80B11 (even though it keeps crashing). The file set wasn't removed after several hours, it was just sitting there with the mysterious N counter counting down and then resetting to 10. However, after I closed newsbin and then restarted it, the file set was removed after a few minutes.
1. Why was it necessary to close/restart newsbin for the file set to be removed?
1 - At least one par file has downloaded.
2 - Only the first par with no repair information has downloaded.
2. That is correct, but how do you see that from the data in the image that I posted?
3 - PAR: X of Y mean you need Y PAR blocks to complete the file so in this instance you don't have enough repair + PAR blocks to repair or finish this download.
3. I don't understand why. As I wrote, when I tested the file set with QuickPAR repair was not necessary. Furthermore the PAR files were not being downloaded, there were just sitting idle in the download list.
4 - It looks like 11 files are still in the midst of downloading.
4. Yes, I believe that these were the 11 PAR files that were not needed.
5 - Retries haven't hit 2 yet.
5. I don't understand, are you referring to the N counter? Why does it keep counting down/resetting?
I think that you didn't answer some of my other questions?:
6. When it shows Size: 1.21 GB/1.24 GB, does it mean that the remaining 0.03 GB are the PAR sets (not yet downloaded)?
7. What does D:116 mean?
8. Does the color of the "Current Progress" bar (blue in this case) have any meaning? What are the different color options