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Hi,
I use SABnzbd with easynews server and have trouble with double downloads.
I do not use sickbeard or any of the other software that pops up if I google for this problem.
I have easynews create 3 nzb files for 3 similar 1Gb files and put them in the watch folder.
c:\temp\xxxxx1.nzb
c:\temp\xxxxx2.nzb
c:\temp\xxxxx3.nzb
The first gets downloaded once, the next two twice.
If i look in sabnzbd history to the duplicates download details the source is the same file in both cases.
In settings I set switches, detect duplicates to ignore and in folders, .nzb backup folders i put a folder where indeed archives of my nzb's are created.
e:\temp\xxxxx1.nzb.gz
What could be the problem?

Are you using the same watched folder also for NZB backup?
(The latter is a SABnzbd option to be set in Config->Folders.)

shypike wrote:Are you using the same watched folder also for NZB backup?
(The latter is a SABnzbd option to be set in Config->Folders.)

Nope, as in the example I use c:\temp for watched folder and e:\temp for backups.

So despite duplicate detection, it still downloads some jobs twice?
Somehow the files must be created twice.
As soon as an NZB has been processed and put in the queue, it is deleted.
And if it cannot be deleted, it is remembered still.
What happens if you download the files to another folder and then
manually copy the files to the watched folder?

I already do that.

I work 2 ways:
1
I find an unpacked file in the newsserver search engine, let the newsserver interface create a nzb from it. It is then downloaded to the default firefox download folder from where i copy it to the watched folder
2
I use a program spotnet which directly puts nzb's in the watch folder

In both cases doubling takes place but not always.
I am not sure but it seems the first ones after starting sabnzbd go well but then it goes wrong.
Today when things went wrong I also did not see the downloads it was working on in the interface, just the history and suddenly the finished task is in the history.
There is only one backup of the nzb also when it is downloaded twice.
The second download gets a folder with the same name but ith '.1' after it.
I checked windows taskmanager if sabnzdb was running twice:nope.

Completed 2015-01-15 08:49:02
Name xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Size 2.7 GB
Status Completed
Category *
Path W:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Download Downloaded in 7 minutes 29 seconds at an average of 6.1 MB/s
Source c:\temp\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.nzb
Unpack [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AVI] Unpacked 3 files/folders in 1 minute 8 seconds
Repair [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AVI] Quick Check OK

Completed 2015-01-15 08:53:14
Name xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Size 2.7 GB
Status Completed
Category *
Path W:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.1
Download Downloaded in 6 minutes 39 seconds at an average of 6.9 MB/s
Source c:\temp\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.nzb
Unpack [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AVI] Unpacked 3 files/folders in 1 minute 8 seconds
Repair [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AVI] Quick Check OK

I have no idea what is wrong here.
There have been zero complaints about this before,
except for people who have some add-on installed where the NZB is both
sent to SABnzbd through the API and copied to the watched folder.
The only fix I see here is to set up an NZB backup folder in Config->Folders and enable "Discard duplicates" in Config->Switches.