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sedmonds
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Files being downloaded twice

Post by sedmonds »

Hi,

Hope someone can help me with a daft problem, seems SABnzbd is downloading all my files twice and then renaming as per usual default (append .1 to end).
Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?

Many thanks,
Si.
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Re: Files being downloaded twice

Post by Nemesis »

the nzb you are using probably has them inside it twice - sometimes happens when indexing sites index them twice for some reason
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sander
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Re: Files being downloaded twice

Post by sander »

sedmonds wrote: Hi,

Hope someone can help me with a daft problem, seems SABnzbd is downloading all my files twice and then renaming as per usual default (append .1 to end).
Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?

Many thanks,
Si.
Have you installed Firefox plugin nzbstatus *and* associated the .NZB extension to SAB?

Or are you downloading to the watched folder *and* associated the .NZB extension to SAB?
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sedmonds
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Re: Files being downloaded twice

Post by sedmonds »

Hi,

Thanks for the replies, unfortunately, its neither of these, I'm not using Firefox at all, and the downloads now matter how I go about asking SABnzbd to downloading them always come twice.

How I'm currently trying is via Episode Butler, this goes and downloads the files twice into SABnzbd's destination directory.
Also, if I try manually importing an NZB, once again, every file gets downloaded twice, but if I try the same nzb in newsbin (the Windows client) it downloads the files only once! argh!

Maybe I should just rip everything out again and just reinstall!
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shypike
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Re: Files being downloaded twice

Post by shypike »

There must be something that offers the NZBs twice.
If you cannot find the cause, there is a quick work-around.
Set a NZB backup folder in Config->Folders and enable "Prevent duplicate downloads" in Config->Switches.
This will make sure no identically names NZBs will enter the queue.
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rascalli
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Re: Files being downloaded twice

Post by rascalli »

sedmonds wrote: Hi,

Thanks for the replies, unfortunately, its neither of these, I'm not using Firefox at all, and the downloads now matter how I go about asking SABnzbd to downloading them always come twice.
How do you download it then ?

If Episode butler downloads it twice .. then you need to talk to the author of the app
sedmonds
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Re: Files being downloaded twice

Post by sedmonds »

I uninstalled SABnzbd, cleared my /opt/SABnzbd directory (leaving the configuration in my home directory), and reinstalled. All is now working correctly, no more duplicate files. Really don't know what caused it, but all good now!!!!  ;D
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