NZB Completion Checker?

[sab12397]

Would be great if there was an option for SABnzbd to check the completion of the NZB before trying to download?

Perhaps less than 99% complete the job could then be automatically paused if there are any missing articles and left to user to decide to continue?

[shypike]

Will be in 0.7.0

[Gigahertz21]

This completion checker works decently, but would be great if one was built into sab.

http://www.zoon.dk/2012/02/22/nzb-compl ... mment-1746

[adgilcan]

Is there any news on this?

I know there is an option in the queue to pause or abort downloading as soon as a password protected RAR file is unpacked but is there an option of checking BEFORE downloading? This would save time, money and bandwidth.

Any way of tying sabnzbd to a third party offering such as NZB Completion Checker (though preferably one which works on a Mac or Linux box)

What news???

[shypike]

Many versions ago a pre-download check was introduced, only recommended for extreme caps.
Some time ago the option "Abort jobs that cannot be completed" in Config->Switches was introduced.
You might want to keep track of the release notes.

[Jaerin]

I saw the options, but I'm not sure they are working.

Couchpotato is grabbing movie nzbs that are password protected and sabnzbd downloads the entire thing. Had Sickbeard grab a couple TV shows as well

I have the option set to abort, but I've also tried pause and neither seems to matter.

[shypike]

Couchpotato is grabbing movie nzbs that are password protected and sabnzbd downloads the entire thing. Had Sickbeard grab a couple TV shows as well

Detection of encrypted posts is a completely different option.
By definition it cannot be perfect, because there are too many tricks to hide encryption initially.

[richsmif]

sab should check the first rar file and if it detects another rar inside....cancel or stop.. recently ive wasted a lot of bandwidth downloading these files that want you to run some spam executable to run a so called codec file.
or rar within a rar which is encrypted.

why hasn't sab been updated for ages?

[sander]

sab should check the first rar file and if it detects another rar inside....cancel or stop.. recently ive wasted a lot of bandwidth downloading these files that want you to run some spam executable to run a so called codec file.
or rar within a rar which is encrypted.

set "rar" as unwanted extension, as of sab 0.7.18rc1

[shypike]

SABnzbd already tries to do this, if enabled in Config->Switches.
Just looking for RAR is tricky, because some posts contain a small RAR files with subtitles.