Workflow Improvment Recommendation Needed

[jimerb]

I'm trying to fully take advantage of a 1TB SSD card that I have locally on the workstation that I run Newsbin on.

My workflow is:
1) Pick files from internet search
2) "Download to existing Folder" (ON A REMOTE HIGH SPEED NAS)
3) Create a new folder under an existing folder like:
Photos of Nature\ Mountains

Result All the chunks download onto the SSD locally but the rar's; pars and final extract all start going to the NAS.

What I want to do is get all steps except the final unrar to stay on the SSD. I still want the ability to target the ending unrar to a folder onto the NAS during the download process.

My unrar folder setting right now is blank.

Possible?

[Quade]

I'd set the download folder to the local SSD. So the rars land on the SSD.

In the options, I'd add an unrar path and set it to

"X:\Unrar\$(LASTPATH)\" (the first part needs to match your drive setup)
or

"\\NAS\Drive\Unrar\$(LASTPATH)\"

The important part is "$(LASTPATH)" it tells Newsbin to use the last segment of the download path as the source for a new segment during unrar.

So if you download to:

"C:\Nature\ Mountains\"

It'll unrar to

"X:\Unrar\Mountains\"

By controlling the download path, you can automatically set the last segment of the unrar path.

[jimerb]

Awesome! I'm going to give it a try. Thanks!

[jimerb]

I'm making some headway with this but I think I'm perhaps missing a variable or something. My unrars are missing a folder in the target location.


My nas layout:

\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\Nature\Mountains
\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\Nature\Rivers
\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\Cars\Trucks
\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\Cars\Speedcars

As mentioned, I've created my unrar path as:
\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\$(LASTPATH)\

If I download a file to new folder:
C:\Newsbinfiles\Nature\Mountains\NewMountain\

It winds up unraring to:
\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\NewMountain

How can I get it to unrar to:
\\NasDrive\NewsbinFiles\Nature\Mountains\NewMountain

[Quade]

The problem is you're asking for it to back up 2 segments of the path when it only backs up one. If I was using watch lists, I might give the watch list its own download path which includes the extra segment.