Downloading to external hard drive

[cwmacker]

Does anyone know what will happen if i setup SABnzbd to download straight to my external hard drive right. Then i disconnect my hard drive from the computer to take it somewhere will the downloads go to the computer's complete and incomplete folder? Will the downloads be corrupted?

[shypike]

If you pause SABnzbd and properly unmount the drive, things will go right.
Otherwise: big trouble.
SABnzbd doesn't like it when you remove "incomplete" during a download.
"Complete" is more tolerant, in that you can retry failed post-processing.

[cwmacker]

Ok cool so I have a MacBook! It's only got a 500Gb hard drive. So it's tiny!!!! So what you saying is: if my Mac is connected to the external over night and I have set SABnzbd complete and incomplete locations on the external. That means over night the downloads will go into the external!!! But then I take my Mac to work in the day without taking my external. At work I still download from SABnzbd! Will the downloads automatically go to the incomplete and complete folders on my mac? Will the download become corrupt because some of the tempory files of a specific movie are on the incomplete folder on the external and others on the MacBook?

[shypike]

Make sure "incomplete" is local.
Every post-processing attempt will fail at work.
When you later re-connect at home you can retry all failed items.

[cwmacker]

Ok so local meaning on my Mac hard drive not the external?
Please just tell me how do I retry failed items? Will this definetly work?

[shypike]

There will be a retry button visible in History, when a job fails.

[cwmacker]

So when i retry the job will the post-processing definitely work when i get home and plug in the hard drive?

[shypike]

It should.