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As posted elsewhere, Newsbin becomes very slow when it tries to assembly files when the chunk folder contains 100 thousands files.
By experience I now that file operations are very slow when a folder contains 100 thousands files and the drive is formatted as NTFS. In this case, FAT32 is much faster.

I therefore tried to move the Data Folder to a FAT32 drive to test if this would eliminate the assembly bottleneck.

However, one spool file (storage.db3) in the Data Folder is more than 4 GB (4.37 GB) and this is not allowed on FAT32 drives.

Is there some way to only have the Chunk Folder on the FAT32 drive?
Alternatively, is there some way to have the spool files on an alternative (NTFS) drive?

Finally, is there some way to compact the storage.db3 file?

Finally, is there some way to compact the storage.db3 file?

Right click Post Storage/Compact Group with compact out empty space but if you don't have any empty space it won't change much. 4 gigs for a header DB isn't that big.

As for moving the folder. You might be able to map another folder to the chunks folder.

Another option is to tell Newsbin to stall the download while files are unraring. This should prevent a big buildup of chunks.

Quade wrote:
Right click Post Storage/Compact Group with compact out empty space but if you don't have any empty space it won't change much. 4 gigs for a header DB isn't that big.

As for moving the folder. You might be able to map another folder to the chunks folder.

Another option is to tell Newsbin to stall the download while files are unraring. This should prevent a big buildup of chunks.

Unfortunately, compacting didn't reduce the file size much.

When mapping do you know if a Symbolic link or Junction would be best in this case?
Also, I am not sure if I wouldn't have the same issue with slow access [directory read] when the FAT32 directory is mapped onto the NTFS directory where Newsbin operates..?

I don't let Newsbin unrar. The chunk buildup is caused by slow file assembly.

I've never done this. It's just an idea. In windows, I believe you can map a drive to a folder.

Hello,

My chunks folder is huge, 70GB.

Can i move this folder to another folder using some settings?

Thanks

Roy

My chunks folder is huge, 70GB.

Did you read the comments I already made? You might want to try disabling download during unrar/repair.

Hello,

Thanks,

My problem is not the speed or similar.

I just move all my newsbin folders to another location.

I didnt find an option to move this folder and it is messing with the windows users folder - which i dont want to use.

I think newsbin is just missing a feature for the location of the chunks folder.

Unless i missed this option.

Thanks

Roy

You can move the whole Newsbin DATA folder to another location (which includes both the CHUNKS and SPOOL folders). This cannot be done from within Newsbin itself while it is running, but the details of the method is covered in the Newsbin online documentation. basically it involves manually editing the Newsbin configuration file to point to the new DATA folder location while Newsbin is not running.

If you want to move just sub-folders of the Newsbin DATA folder then you have to get a bit fancier using the (rather obscure) Windows facility for setting up symbolic links. This works without the need to change anything in the Newsbin configuration.

Hello,

Thanks, i checked the procedure and the data folder is already is where i want it to be.

So maybe it was old files...

I am good now, thanks.

Bye

Roy