Empty NZB file error Help!

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waytooez
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Empty NZB file error Help!

Post by waytooez »

Guys I'm new to this... I was downloading some old files but I stopped and deleted them because I was still testing how the program works and everything. When I re-download the same files, it giving me Empty NZB file error. It doesn't load any more.

I'm running sabnzbd and sickbeard on unraid server.

Help me out...
hogburto
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Re: Empty NZB file error Help!

Post by hogburto »

I'm not sure what you're describing, but sometimes a large .NZB file is scanned before it's done downloading and reported as incomplete in the error log.
If you have a blackhole directory set up, you can reuse the old .NZB that worked when you deleted the files the first time. Otherwise, try downloading the .NZB once more.
waytooez
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Re: Empty NZB file error Help!

Post by waytooez »

when I was downloading .ZNB for file the first time, everything is working ok but then i paused it and deleted the file.(just doing some test)

After I finshed setting it up, I re-downloaded same .ZNB file and it's not downloading the file anymore. It keeps disappearing after reading that .ZNB file and it was showing "empty ZNB file" error. I have no idea what that means
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shypike
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Re: Empty NZB file error Help!

Post by shypike »

The NZB might actually be empty or just contain garbage.
Download the file and open it with a text editor.
It should start with something like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE nzb PUBLIC "-//newzBin//DTD NZB 1.0//EN" "http://www.newzbin.com/DTD/nzb/nzb-1.0.dtd">
and end with:

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</segments>
</file>
</nzb>
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