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Hi there.
Is there a way to pause individual articles belonging to an item in the downloads list?

For example:
Say I have add a download to SABnzbd (using an nzb) that is 10GB in total size and is comprised of ten 1GB articles.
I have 5GB remaining monthly download quota with my ISP or news provider and do not wish to exceed my quota.
I would like to be able to pause half of the articles belonging to the download until the beginning of the next month when I would manually un-pause the remaining articles to complete the download.

I've seen this in other clients but I can't find the feature in SABnzbd.
I have found the page accessed by clicking the name of a download on the downloads page and this displays the list of articles and allows users to delete articles or arrange the order of the list but not to pause/un-pause the articles.

Thanks for your help.

Edit: added context details:
Version: 0.6.5
OS:Windows XP SP3
Install-type: Windows Installer
Firewall Software: XP SP3 Firewall
Are you using IPV6? no
Is the issue reproducible? yes

Pausing articles is not useful at all.
What you can do is delete individual files as long as they're not downloading yet.
This make little sense either for your problem.
What you suggest goes against the central idea of SABnzbd: it's an automation tool.

If you're plagued with strict download caps,
lookout for the next Beta release which will support quota management.
(You tell what the quotum is, SABnzbd will pause when it's reached and resume
when the turn-over date passes).

Hi  shypike.

Thanks for your reply.
I disagree with your assertion that the functionality I've suggested is not at all useful. It is very useful to me for the quota management reason I explained in the OP.

I accept that the procedure I've described is very manual and that this is in conflict with the central idea of automation.
I'm not sure I understand your suggestion about deleting the not yet downloaded files, I realize I can do this but I'd then have to re-add the nzb later, and delete the files that I download previously, to get the complete file set while avoiding duplication. To my mind a pause/resume function would be much easier. Maybe you can explain further to help me understand?

The quota management functionality sounds good. I'll keep a lookout as you've suggested.

I agree that (un)pausing the files would be a nice addition rather then deleting them.
And wb, we're talking about files instead of articles because articles are the small parts that files consist of while downloading from (or uploading to) usenet.

The quota management of the next (0.7.0) release will be a better solution.