How to generate files from cache?

[g00fy]

Hi,


I see that I miss '692' blocks. The problem is that I have a huge amount of cache files:
7.4G    ./cache
14G    ./downloads/incomplete
22G    .

How can I generate files from the cache?


Thanks

[shypike]

Forget it.
The cache will not contain the missing blocks you need.
The cache is probably full of parts from older downloads because
there are some issues with the end-of-job cleanup in SABnzbd,
especially of you have the habit of often removing jobs from the queue.
This is even more true for the "incomplete" folder.

[g00fy]

Not exactly true... But because of the size and the slowness of my hdd, it didn't delete the files very fast.
So I now see it skipped about 7G in files...

Which seems rather similar to the cached files. I didn't do anything weird, I just added a job to the queue and waited a day or so for the download to be done.

Then I saw 7.5G in the cache, and afterwards I got a _FAILED_ folder with 7G missing files. Maybe coincidence?

[switch]

Your missing blocks are likely nothing to do with the files in your cache. Missing parts of files in downloads is a fairly common part of downloading from usenet. It has become less common over the last couple of years, however it is much more common that when using any other protocol.

This is why par2 files (repair files) come with most downloads.

You can usually avoid large amounts of missing articles by not downloading from the edge of your servers retention. It is likely the parts of the file you need are no longer available on your server, either they were purged or just went missing.

Your cache files may just be orphaned files from files not being deleted correctly, or if sabnzbd shutdown incorrectly, or from a bug in sabnzbd. If you wish to clear them, you can either run sabnzbd with the --clean parameter, be aware this will remove all items in your queue and history. Or you can open up your cache folder and delete everything except the following files when your queue is empty:

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bookmarks.sab
bytes7.sab
queue7.sab
rss_data.sab
watched_data.sab

[g00fy]

Hi Switch,


Thanks for the explanation, but I was already very well aware of all those facts .
It wasn't that either, because the blocks were deleted when the files were moved to the _FAILED_ directory. I didn't took a sample though of the files in the cache dir so I don't really know for sure if they were orphaned files (I don't believe so) or from a bug (I don't so either) or just leftover from a readlock which was released after sabnzbd moved the files away after par2 checking...

I just downloaded the missing files again and it was ok, so I don't worry anymore.
Wanted to report that I thought it'd be weird to have 7.4G cache and 7G missing files...