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Hi there!

I recently startet to download a pretty large package on my old computer. Since I have a very bad internet connection, it took me weeks to get to about 50%. Now I have a new laptop and I moved all the already downloaded files to the sabnzbd download folder on my new laptop, in order to continue downloading the package there. However I can't seem to resume the download from where it stopped, when I open the nzb file with sabnzbd. It always starts a new download, instead of taking off from where it stopped. Is there any way to resume the download that I started from my old computer on my new laptop with the files I already downloaded?

If possible at all, it is probably difficult:

First check: What has been downloaded on the old system? Do you see *rar and *par2 files?

If so: put the NZB in into SAB on the new laptop. Click on the folder symbol next to the download. You will see all the rar and par2 files that will be downloaded. Select the rar and par2 files you already have, and then click on the Delete symbol.

Now let SAB download the rest.

When finished, put all rar and par2 files into a directory, run a par2 repair manually, then run unrar manually.

Difficult and error prone, I would say.

Ok, thank you! I will try that and tell you if it worked. Give me another two weeks or so

No I think there's a much better way:
You should indeed place the incomplete download in the 'incomplete download folder' of SABnzbd on your new PC.
Then you go to Orphaned jobs in the Status window, it should then show the folder with your download, there you click Add or the + sign (depending on the skin you use).
This will re-add the download to the queue, preserving what you already downloaded!

Wow, I'm really amazed! This is exactly what I was looking for! It worked perfectly fine and just took me a minute or so! Thank you so much, you saved me a lot of trouble!