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Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: January 18th, 2009, 8:48 am
by bobhope
Ok. One of the recent items to come over my RSS feed was a certain space-based computer-animated TV show with light-based swords.
It is stuck in sab because it (sab) is trying to extract it into a folder with a colon. I DO have "Replace illegal characters in foldernames by equivalents (otherwise remove)." enabled.
This has screwed up my history and shows everything after it in an infinite state of not-finished. They (some 11 files) have all finished downloading, they just won't enter the repair and extract stage because sab is still waiting for this one to finish.
I can't delete the entries from the history. When I purged the history it removed everything that said "Completed" and left the ones that have yet to extract.
I need help, please.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: January 18th, 2009, 9:19 am
by switch
What is your operating system? Try restarting sabnzbd to see if it will finish off the items waiting to be processed.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: January 18th, 2009, 1:31 pm
by bobhope
XP SP2. This has been a problem since the 10th. It has persisted through numerous SAB and Windows restarts.
Is there a database file that I can edit manually and remove the offending entry from the processing queue?
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: January 18th, 2009, 1:46 pm
by switch
You can remove queue7.sab from the cache folder, open up this path in start>run or an explorer window.
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%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\sabnzbd\cache
Removing this file will unfortunately remove all queue and history items, you won't be able to edit it to remove the offending one.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 15th, 2009, 12:25 pm
by bobhope
Can some time be scheduled to fix this, please?
2009-02-15 09:49:27,203
ERROR
[assembler] Disk error on creating file e:\incomplete\Star.Wars:.The.Clone.Wars.S01E17.199\ctu-x264-star.wars.the.clone.wars.117.vol0+1.par2
Again, I do have it set to remove illegal characters. It doesn't seem to be working very well.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 15th, 2009, 12:33 pm
by switch
What version of sabnzbd are you running? As far as I'm aware all recent versions either replace : with - or simply remove it from the folder name.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 15th, 2009, 1:13 pm
by bobhope
Version: 0.4.6
Replace illegal characters in Foldernames:
Replace illegal characters in foldernames by equivalents (otherwise remove).
That option is checked.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 15th, 2009, 1:30 pm
by switch
How are you adding this file to sabnzbd?
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 15th, 2009, 1:31 pm
by bobhope
It's being added by an RSS feed from
http://mytvnzb.foechoer.be/
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 15th, 2009, 2:48 pm
by switch
I have no idea how you got it in your queue, tvnzb/mytvnzb does not provide nzb's with a colon it. However colon replacement is working fine for me, so I don't know what to tell you.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 23rd, 2009, 3:15 pm
by bobhope
"Filter folder names coming from compressed NZB archives"
Do you think that might fix my problem? I guess I'll find out. :/
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 23rd, 2009, 3:18 pm
by shypike
Quite possible, this fix was triggered by someone who had '?' in his folder names.
Re: Colon in filename, history broken
Posted: February 23rd, 2009, 3:46 pm
by switch
The fix was actually for NON nzb archive files, and only when they were addied via the blackhole/watched folder.