Possible to make Sabnzbd process and unpack BEFORE moving to completed dir?

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Sal
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Possible to make Sabnzbd process and unpack BEFORE moving to completed dir?

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So I've noticed that Sabnzbd moves a download that's been par-checked to the completed downloads directory, and then starts unpacking it. It'll first make an _UNPACK_ XXX directory in the completed folder and then after it's done it'll rename the folder.

I was wondering, is there an option somehow that I can tweak to make it not do that? I want it to unpack in the uncompleted downloads folder... The reason's because I have Sabnzbd move certain downloads to a 'Movies' folder, which XBMC then scans constantly for new files. If it finds the _UNPACK_ folder with the movie name it'll scrape the movie and add it to the library, however, after Sabnzbd is done processing it and renames it to the final filename XBMC still points to the _UNPACK_ folder and the file won't play, and then I have to manually re-add the files. It's kind of... a bummer.

So... a way to do this would be great :)
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shypike
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Re: Possible to make Sabnzbd process and unpack BEFORE moving to completed dir?

Post by shypike »

There's a non-UI option to skip the renaming.
See: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-special

We will not implement unpacking in the incomplete folder and then moving.
The current method is much more efficient if you have multiple drives (or network shares).
Feel free to write a simple user script to move the final folder to another location.
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