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I have been having consistent repair failed problems with specific NZB files. At first I suspected that my provider was just missing pieces or it was a bad post, but after some trial and error I think it's actually SABnzbd. I've tried three different providers (Newshosting, Astraweb, and Giganews). I get the same error message with every provider: Repair failed, not enough repair blocks (... short) Trying SFV verification. Some files failed to verify against "....sfv". It happens on different nzb files, but consistently on each one no matter which server I used. The surprising part however was when I tried to use Mimo newsreader with Giganews. I used the same nzb files and they completed with no errors. I've only been using SABnzbd for a year and I've loved it, but I haven't had this many problems until NZBMatrix and Newsbin2 were shut down. About 50% of the nzb files I've been getting from other index sites have had this problem with SABnzbd. I have noticed that a lot of the files say they use yEnc, but I don't know if that is relevant. I can't help but think that I'm missing a switch or setting or something and SABnzbd should be able to do this. I'm running the newest SABnzbd (0.7.6) on Windows 7. I have the log file saved too, but I can't post it from where I am now. If someone wants to see it I can post it later. Any help would be appreciated, I really want to keep using SABnzbd not that Mimo crap.

SABnzbd has no influence on the quality of the NZB files.
If you have an NZB that downloads correctly with Mimo and not with SABnzbd,
while using the same servers, please email it to bugs@sabnzbd.org (add the URL of this post).
Does "Mimo" actually use NZBs?

Yes Mimo uses NZBs. I've been running some more to try and figure this out and it's seems that if you use Mimo's built in search function it will complete it. If I download the NZB from the index site to my local drive and manually add it it fails just like SABnzbd. If I find a solid bug I'll send it in, thanks for the info.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance of some of the aspects of Usenet, but are there posts that you have to combine multiple articles into one NZB file?

blairpod wrote: You'll have to excuse my ignorance of some of the aspects of Usenet, but are there posts that you have to combine multiple articles into one NZB file?

With automatic indexers and careless posters, it can be needed.
Manual upload sites like nzbmatrix and newzbin, this was never needed.
Most of the time it works fine though, but there's an increasing struggle
to keep abreast of takedowns.

Yeah, I think I'm just going to have to be more picky and therefore more patient when looking for an NZB. I noticed on Binsearch.info it will even list in the details Parts Available: #/#. A lot of them don't seem to have all of the parts. If I'm sure to use one that has all of the parts in the description, it always works. Thanks for your help!