Unchecked pre-allocate files not working?

[mjpierce]

Using 6.73RC1

In my performance options I have unchecked "pre-allocate file".

If I modify an NZB to download just the first few segments of a part (to see what it is), the entire size of the part gets allocated and written to disk, and not just the first few mega bytes I downloaded. Is this not pre-allocating the file even though I have it unchecked?

Doing it this way worked fine in 6.56

[Quade]

That's not pre-allocating. It's setting the size to the actual file size.

Pre-allocating means allocate before assembly. It always pads the files out to full size if it knows the size no matter what the pre-allocate mode is. .