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For the last 2 and a half weeks I have not been able to get 1 successful download unpacked. At first I had thought it was my usenet account. After installing nzbget and trying downloads I found that everything is fine.

Here is what sab is giving me when I click on the failed download:

Completed 2015-06-29 10:13:20 AM
Name File Name Removed for Privacy - Unpacking failed, an expected file was not unpacked
Size 1.2 GB
Status Failed
Category tv
Path \\FREENAS\Nas Storage\TV\_FAILED_Folder Name of File
Download Downloaded in 2 minutes 57 seconds at an average of 6.8 MB/s
Source https://www.oznzb.com/getnzb/d2002be2c6 ... a4d83b63ee
Unpack Unpacking failed, these file(s) are missing:
file.name.removed.for.privacy.mkv
Repair [file.name.remove.for.privacy] Quick Check OK


This is happening with every single file that is downloaded.

Is what is unpack usable?
Is the reported file actually missing?
(Look in the __unpack__title folder).

The unpack folder is empty but if I download it via nzbget the file is not missing after unpack.

What if you unpack the RAR files manually?
There's a problem that on some platforms SABnzbd cannot match the unpacked
files with the names inside the RAR files (nzbget probably doesn't check).
There's option to disable the check altogether: Config->Check result of unpacking

Once I changed the setting in the config the files are completing now but there are 0 files unpacked.

Can email an example NZB file to bugs@sabnzbd.org
Please add the URL of this message.

Nothing special about your sample, it downloads and unpacks fine.
On which operating system do you run SABnzbd?

Im running on windows. This is definitely a SAB issue. It is downloading files just fine. The problem is with the extraction process. It is showing it successfully extracted the files but it says 0 files were extracted. Then in the folder where the downloaded rar files are at all the downloaded files are sitting there with no extracted file. I manually extract them fine.

Please check the "Samples" option in Config->Options.
Disable it.

The only sample option I could find was under Config->switches->post processing then Ignore samples. I set it to OFF It was set to Do not download. Other than that I have no idea where Config->Options is located?

You're right, it's Config->Switches. Sorry.
You found the right setting. "Do not download" is a dangerous setting.
Even "Delete after dwonload" is tricky, because currently it's a bit too eager to delete files.
Keep it off.