Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

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Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby racheysdad » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:49 am

My unrar path settings no longer work. Everything is unraring to C:\Documents\Newsbin regardless of what I have set for an unrar path in options. When I downgrade back to 6.56 they work fine, but doesn't after upgrading to 6.60

Anyone else get this issue?
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Quade » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:43 am

What did you set the unrar path to?

I just tested it and new files I added to the download list were unraring to the unrar folder I set. 2 issues to watch for:

1 - Only newly added files will get the new unrar path.

2 - Make sure you don't have an unrar path set for the group.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby racheysdad » Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:01 pm

Quade wrote:What did you set the unrar path to?

It's set to "C:\_To Be Sorted"

I just tested it and new files I added to the download list were unraring to the unrar folder I set. 2 issues to watch for:

1 - Only newly added files will get the new unrar path. Yes, brand new nzb's added after the upgrade.

2 - Make sure you don't have an unrar path set for the group.
I don't have anything set for groups.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Quade » Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:05 pm

Make sure it has a trailing "\" on it. It should work either way but if you re-check and there's no trailing \ you need to add one.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby racheysdad » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:33 pm

Quade wrote:Make sure it has a trailing "\" on it. It should work either way but if you re-check and there's no trailing \ you need to add one.


Still no go, I'll stick to 6.55 for now. Thanks anyway.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Quade » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:26 pm

Oh well. It's working for everyone else. I wonder if you have a path set someplace else?
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby DrJones » Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:20 am

I am having the same problem.
I "upgraded" to the latest version this morning and newsbin kept trying to unpack to C:\ while the unrar folder was set to Y:\
When I manually give the posts a new unrar path it will, by default, show me Y:\ (as set in the options) and if i click "ok"(without changing the path) it will unrar on Y:\
But it will not do this on itself.

reverting to 6.55, with the same settings, solved the problem.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Quade » Tue Nov 03, 2015 9:17 am

What's the path actually set to? Just "Y:\"?

Might be worth trying "Y:\UnRAR\". I think unraring to the root is the unusual thing.

If you are trying to unrar to the root path, I can try that here.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby DrJones » Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:19 am

It's actually Y:\Films
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Quade » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:25 pm

I'd go into the options. Select "Open Data Folder" then close Newsbin.

Load the "Newsbin.nbi" file with wordpad (might want to make a copy just in case first). Then search for "C:\" anywhere in the file.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby DrJones » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:22 am

This is what i found:

reverences to c:\ were only for:
[NZB]
DownloadPath=C:\Newsbin\
[SETTINGS]
DataPath=C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Newsbin\
DownloadPath=C:\Newsbin\
[Y:\NZB\] (This is the folder were nzb files are placed if used)
DownloadPath=C:\Newsbin\


For Y:\ :
[AUTORAR]
DecodePath=Y:\Films\$(FILENAME)\
UnRARPath=Y:\Films\$(FILENAME)\
[Y:\NZB\]
UnRARPath=Y\Films\
WatchPath=Y:\NZB\


I see that the unrarpath is missing the : in the file path. I'll try and see what it does when i correct that.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby DrJones » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:49 am

Problem solved.
the missing : was the problem.

Still strange that the earlier version (6.55 build 3334) has no problem with the missing :
I tested it again by reverting to the old version and deleted the :
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Quade » Wed Nov 04, 2015 7:38 am

[Y:\NZB\]


I'm actually surprised this works as a watch list name. Glad you figured it out though.

6.55 simply shouldn't have worked, it's an illegal path name. I'm guessing it found another path and used it instead.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby DrJones » Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:03 am

Quade wrote:
I'm actually surprised this works as a watch list name. Glad you figured it out though.

6.55 simply shouldn't have worked, it's an illegal path name. I'm guessing it found another path and used it instead.


I've used that watch path for a long time now and it has always worked.

6.55 unpacked in the right folder. I agree that it should have had the same problem.
Well the problem is resolved. Maybe others with the same problem could fix it the same way.
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Re: Unrar path settings don't work anymore on 6.6

Postby Spooner » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:18 pm

Hey guys,

My first post here as Newsbin has been working perfectly for me for the last few years.

Since upgrading to 6.62 B 4358 I'm also getting weird download / extract behaviour.

No matter what I put in any of the paths in the options screen everything downloads, unrars and ends up being extracted into my:
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C:\Users\<my username>\Downloads

directory

I've tried the suggestions above, editing my .nbi file, but nothing will get Newsbin to extract and place the downloads into where my previous versions would, which was:
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E:\Newsgroups\newsbin download\$(YEAR)$(MONTH)$(DAYS)-$(HOURS)$(MINUTES)-$(FILENAME)\


When I installed the latest version over the top of (I think) v6.56, I did ask the setup to keep my settings.

I've also since fully removed the 6.62 install, wipe out any remnants left in the profile directory and reinstall, setting up afresh. I just can't get it to save my downloads anywhere else except for where Newsbin wants to...

Any other suggestions?
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