Watch Folder never activates (OSX 10.11/sanzbd 1.03)

[heavyboots]

Hi,

As of version 1.00, I've suddenly had an issue where the watch folder is no longer watched. I've been using BT Sync for a couple years to sync a folder called "nzb downloads" from my work folder to my home machine, such that I can add an nzb file to it and have it sync to my home computer so the show is ready for me to watch when I get home from work. As of version 1.00 though, it seems to have failed.

Anyone ever had this issue or know any fixes? I tried clearing out the watch folder and then re-adding it but it seemed to have no effect. Similarly, files moved into the watch folder directly in the Finder on the home computer don't seem to activate sanzbd either.

Thanks in advance,
Eric.

[Alrescha]

For what it's worth, it should work.

I have been using 10.11.5 and 1.03 (and now the beta for 1.1) and have no issues with my watched folder (~/downloads).

A.

[heavyboots]

Thanks for the info. So you inspired me to tinker a bit and I discovered that it's the  character in the name that's killing it, I think?

At any rate, I removed the  and redefined the path and it immediately started downloading the nzb's in the folder.

So new bug report:

Special character  causes watch folder path to fail.

EDIT: BTW, the only reason I use that character is because it is the only one I can find that alphabetically sorts below everything else in the Finder.

[ALbino]

I can't even view that character on my PC. Doesn't work in any browser, or in any editors, including everything from Notepad, to Microsoft Word, to UltraEdit.

[heavyboots]

Ah, it's the "Apple" character. Like so:

http://i.imgur.com/IcpUY0j.png

It worked fine for a few years. Not sure what changed, either in the OS or the sanzbd app…

[ALbino]

Interesting, I wouldn't have guessed that. I know they were working on doing a better job of handling character encoding issues so maybe there will be an eventual solution.

Just to give the developers a head start: are you saying that the Apple character worked in 0.7.x but has since stopped working in 1.0.x?

[heavyboots]

You know what? I just put the stupid Apple character back in so I could take a screen shot and now that damn thing is *working*?!

I give up, lol. Mark this as resolved and my deepest apologies for taking up your time. Apparently for some unknown reason I had to rename the folder and then name it back again and now Everything is Fine. :-/

[sander]

I think this might be the explanation:

SAB 0.7.x used no Unicode, but 8-bit encodings for everything, including directory names.
The Apple logo is available in Apple’s MacRoman character set as code 240 (= 0xF0), so that was probably used on SAB 0.7.x

SAB 1.x uses Unicode.
The setting in sabnzbd.ini was still something with code 240 (=0xF0), which is not correct unicode for your Apple logo (U+F8FF), so the directory was not found.
Then you removed it from the SABnzbd settings, entered it again, which was now correctly unicode encoded. Problem gone.