Newsbin to re-download/re-read already finished files

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Newsbin to re-download/re-read already finished files

Postby BobCaTT » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:40 pm

Hi

2 similar issues for this post.

1 - when files are completed but not a download set and Newsbin is restarted, Newsbin will re-read the already downloaded files and seems to download parts of the files (maybe for verification purpose ?)
2 - when the download list is not empty but all downloads complete, and if the downloaded files have been moved, some files may be downloaded again.

Ideally, files shouldn't need to be downloaded again and internally marked as such.

Version 6.33.1882

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Re: Newsbin to re-download/re-read already finished files

Postby BobCaTT » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:59 pm

Yep, I can clearly confirm this happens with .par2 files. They are not detected as duplicate and are downloaded again.
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Re: Newsbin to re-download/re-read already finished files

Postby DThor » Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:10 pm

I believe this has been addressed in the beta.

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Re: Newsbin to re-download/re-read already finished files

Postby Quade » Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:29 pm

PAR2's bypass the duplicate checker and always re-download on restart. Particularly the small ones. Non-par files that have par files are checked after the first chunk. As D pointed out, there were some changes to this in the beta. The changes require newsbin to be more careful to verify that the file on disk is the one in the PAR file. Before if just checked the name.
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