Unpacking files when one file fails

[dikkiedirk]

When I download all episodes for one season in DiVX or mkv or whatever format I usually create a NZB containing all episodes. Every episode consists of several RARs and PAR2s. It occasionally happens that one episode isn't complete and can't be repaired. All other episodes are fine and complete though, but won't be unpacked because this one episode isn't complete. So all RARs stay in my download folder and stay unpacked. Is there a way around this, so all good files will be unpacked? Or can SABNZB still unpack them afterwards?

[shypike]

One work-around is: remove the set of rar/par files from the "temporary download dir"
and click Retry in History.
The roadmap contains "autosplit" that will treat items individually.

[dikkiedirk]

Is there a way to get files with German characters in the filename extracted and named properly? Like: Kunststücke, schönste, Lärm, Großstadtpflanze. At the moment these charachters are just deleted, so you get:Kunststcke, schnste, Lrm, Grostadtpflanze. I tried the Special character switch, but that makes matters only worse.

[sander]

Is there a way to get files with German characters in the filename extracted and named properly? Like: Kunststücke, schönste, Lärm, Großstadtpflanze. At the moment these charachters are just deleted, so you get:Kunststcke, schnste, Lrm, Grostadtpflanze. I tried the Special character switch, but that makes matters only worse.

Out of curiosity: on which OS is your SABnzbd running?

[dikkiedirk]

Its running on an unraid server. Its Slackware Linux based.

[shypike]

Check the settings of your file system and Samba.
Often these two do not agree.
Both should be set to support UTF-8 and not some 8-bit ASCII codepage.
Also, unrar will only work properly on a UTF-8 file system.

[sander]

Its running on an unraid server. Its Slackware Linux based.

OK, Linux, like me. I already thought so; I recognize the problems with the Umlauts. I downloaded a Swedish title and had the same problem on my Ubuntu.

Read https://bugs.launchpad.net/libpar2/+bug/916994, and thus try:

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par2 r myfile.par2 myfile.*

If that does not work, and your Linux system supports Wine, try this:

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wine par2j.exe verify *.par2

The first method is easy and often works, the second method requires wine and always works.

EDIT:

You can download par2j.exe (made by Yutaka Sawada) from http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA021385/