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I am running Newsbin 6.0b7: 00 6B A2 A4 25 80.
Is Duplicate detector working or is this user error?

In Options-Advanced I checked "Use Duplicate Detector"
In Options-Filename Options-Duplicate Filename Settings, none of the boxes are checked.

What I did:
1)Display posts in the Posts List
2)Download the file "BS.yyyy" to folder \Temp
3)Shut down Newsbin
4)Delete the file from \Temp
5)Start Newsbin, go to the same newsgroup & display posts.
6)Newsbin shows the file BS.yyyy as having been downloaded (green icon w/lines)
7)Right-click on file and select Download to existing folder
The file is downloaded with the same name as before, BS.yyyy

Should the file Not have been down downloaded? That is, the stored signature is compared to the file I was downloading, and then (since they match), not download the file?

2)Download the file "BS.yyyy" to folder \Temp

The "Download to folder\New folder" right click bypassed the duplicate checker

Add a file to the download list normally, download it, delete/move it, do it again. If should fail after the first chunk downloads.

Quade wrote:

The "Download to folder\New folder" right click bypassed the duplicate checker
Add a file to the download list normally, download it, delete/move it, do it again. If should fail after the first chunk downloads.

yes, that works, But that is not how I "normally" do downloads. I have/create specific folders based on the attributes of the download. Is there a reason why doing the right click download to folder/new bypasses the duplicate checker?
Is it possible to change it so that the right click Does invoke the duplicate checker?
Thanks

Making it optional is somewhere on my todo list.

Thanks for the response.
I must tell you that I have been amazed at the excellent/timely responses I have received in this (& the other newsbin) forums.
It seems that regardless of the day/time I post, I get a quick response from you or other experienced users.

I would like to have the option to NOT bypass duplicate detection when downloading to a directory.

I have found from experience that if you don't sort pictures as your downloading them then you end up with hundreds of thousands of files in one directory. I have one directory that I created in 2001-2002 that has over 200,000 (I have copied it to several new drives since then). Any time you try browsing to them the computer boggs for a min. finding all the files... then you move some elsewhere and it boggs for another min. Then after doing this for 10 min or so explorer.exe crashes... So that 10GB of 200,000+ files is still sitting on the had drive and never looked at.

You also get the problem of figuring out which index files go with which pics.

Basically I'm saying that it would be nice to have the option to NOT bypass duplicate detection when downloading to a directory.

Quade did say optional...

DT

The option's in the advanced options section.

"Folder Dup Bypass". Uncheck it and it won't force downloads when you "download to path".

After I made the post I realize that it was sorta an old thread and wondered if the option had been implemented. Then I read Quade's reply and went to check the setting. It was one of those days that I'm blind. It took me over a min. to see the damn option.

Quade: Thanks for pointing it out and thanks for implementing this option.

Well, implementing ideas is what I do. Haha.