Newsbin 6.60B4 unrar broken on Linux

[Alex Atkin UK]

I suspect this is a Linux/WINE specific issue but 6.6B4 will not unrar.

If I right click on a completed download and go to AutoPAR, UnRAR / Join files, then the Window just pops open briefly and disappears. If I click the "Unrar and try to display rar contents" icon however it DOES Unrar but obviously to the wrong directory.

If I manually unrar on native Linux of course everything is fine also.

I understand Linux is not officially supported but I have been using Newsbin exclusively on WINE for years now and the main functionality has always worked fine. Hopefully this is a minor glitch that can be fixed.

[Quade]

Probably a pathing issue. In 6.6 it tries to unrar to the official unrar path for that download. I suppose if it's some illegal path it'll fail. The fact sampling seems to work suggests it's not an unrar issue.

I might start a download, let the par download, then check the unrar path by right clicking the download and selecting "Properties".

[Moondawgie]

Removed content as this message was posted to the wrong message thread. Sorry.

[Alex Atkin UK]

I did check the path before posting and it had been wiped during the upgrade, but setting it the same as it used to be didn't work.

It seems it must have been a WINE glitch as I removed all drive letters and re-created them and now it seems to be okay. It seems specifically I had to remove Z: which mounted the root filesystem, as it seemed to conflict with my D: download and N: newsbin data drives, as they could be found via both paths.

This was never a problem before but was probably less than ideal anyway as there is no reason WINE needs to see the whole filesystem.

[Quade]

This was never a problem before but was probably less than ideal anyway as there is no reason WINE needs to see the whole filesystem.

Prior versions just use the base download path to unrar into when you did it by hand. This version uses the pathing a normal download would use and cleans up if the unrar is successful.