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c0ld
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par check problem

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Just occasionally, sab will check the pars, confirm the set is ok, delete them, and then at the unpack stage return an error of 'no post-processing because of failed verification'. Extracting the rar set in 7zip will then go without any problems.

What could be causing this?
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Re: par check problem

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Carefully check the error messages.
Some NZB file contain files that do not belong to the actual download.
Say a spurious par2 file. In that case the file set belonging to that par2 file will fail,
hence SABnzbd will not do post-processing because one set failed.
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Re: par check problem

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It seems to be tripping up on the samples.  Even if it was finding an error with the sample (or the par2 associated with the sample), I wouldn't have thought that would stop Sab processing the main par and rars as it usually can deal with multiple rar/par sets easily. It's also strange that it's showing the deleted pars together in the failed one (4 deleted, instead of 2 x 2 deleted).
Last edited by c0ld on November 16th, 2009, 8:23 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: par check problem

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One of the options in Config->Switches allow you to disable the "safe postprocessing" feature.
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Re: par check problem

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Ok, thanks. I'm sure that will be a decent workaround, but it seems to me there's an underlying bug somewhere. I've downloaded plenty of collections with multiple par/rar sets in the past and I've not noticed Sab stopping all rar processing because of single failed par check. Seems odd.
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Re: par check problem

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This is not a recent feature.
If the par2 sets are complete, there's no problem.
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