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Hi,

the new 6.5beta changelog says:

Provides the ability to download parts of a post to one drive and have them assembled to another. Useful if you want to minimize I/O bottlenecks by downloading to a fast internal drive then save the assembled files on larger external media like a NAS.

I can define a Main Download folder, Download folder for NZB downloads and and a UnRAR folder. But there is no option to configure a temp/assemble directory.

Example: I have a files with filename extension: avi.001 avi.002 avi.003 avi.004 etc. After all parts are downloaded the AutoPar will put them together in a avi file.
The downloads of the parts avi.001 avi.002 avi.003 avi.004 etc. should be done in the local folder and the complete avi file should be written directly to the NAS folder.

How can I configure this?

Thanks,
NoOne1337
P.S. I'm a longtime user of Newsbin Pro. I use it since 2001 and I love it! Thank you for great work!

Just set the unrar folder for the NAS drive. So, download folder is set to the internal folder, unrar folder is set to the NAS. You can add other modifiers to the unrar path too like group name or NZB Filename (if you use NZB's).

That comment might be referring to the ability to stage the whole file in ram before writing it out, if you don't mind giving up a couple hundred megs of ram (potentially).

The cache line shows how many memory blocks Newsbin is configured for, as long as the number of blocks is > than the number of blocks in the file, the chunks of the file won't be written to disk. The default is 200 blocks which will cache many files but, not all.

6.50B6+ support post unrar scripting too so, if you want to do something really complicated, you just need to write a script to do it. Newsbin will call the script with parameters similar to Sab scripts. One difference though is Newsbin supplies the filesnames of the RAR files and the results of the unrar in two different text files the script uses.