Post-processing on existing files

[spras]

I have a large collection of existing files that I would like to reorganise. SabNZB can do everything I need it to (unrar, rename, resort), but I am having a hard time getting it to actually process the files. I have tried placing them in the incomplete folder, but I no longer have the nzbs so I guess it doesn't pick them up. Is there a way to do this without the nzbs?

[shypike]

An NZB describes the actually downloaded files, which are usually RAR and PAR2 files.
Afterwards you don't have those, but movie files instead.
Anyway, SABnzbd is not a universal media file sorter.

[spras]

Yes, I'm aware of that. But SabNZB is capable of performing the tasks I need it to; is there anyway of forcing it to detect these files as recently downloaded, and thus requiring post-processing? What I have is stacks of RAR files that need to be unrar'ed, renamed, and sorted in to folders

[shypike]

OK, so it's a bunch of RARs.
Assuming that each RAR set is in a separate folder, move all of the folders
into the "temporary download folder".
Create a fake NZB file; the NZB needs to download at least one small file (like some random .nfo).
Then compress it with gzip and you'll have a file like "name.nzb.gz".
In each folder with a RAR-set, create a sub folder __ADMIN__
Put a copy of the fake nzb.gz in each __ADMIN__ folder.
Then, finally, go to Status, Repair queue and click on "Repair".

This is assuming you don't need categories.
If you do, you'll need to create an extra file in each __ADMIN__ folder.
Its name is SABnzbd_attrib and is a simple text file with on the first line the category name.

[spras]

Thanks, that worked perfectly!