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Does Newsbin check the password before dowbloading all the rar & par files to see if it's good, if not would be nice. Couldn't it check it against the first downloaded rar file...real bummer to download everything and the password is wrong...Thanks great program

It does.

It compares against the first chunk of the first downloaded file. Basically the first 600K of the file. By default it'll fail to the failed list any download that doesn't have a corresponding password in the password list.

Quade wrote:It does.

It compares against the first chunk of the first downloaded file. Basically the first 600K of the file. By default it'll fail to the failed list any download that doesn't have a corresponding password in the password list.

I had downloaded something, repaired it, but when it went to unpack it said all the files were there but failed because of corrupt/or wrong password. something to that affect..now I don't know if the password was bad, or files were corrupted...if the password was wrong it wouldn't of downloaded the 38 GB worth of files,
correct?

Thank you

What version are you using? I'm describing 6.50RC3.

Nothing is 100%. Sometimes the spammers post with the first rar missing and the repair creates the first par. When that happens it breaks the checking. If you see something downloading and the first RAR is completely missing, you might want to be wary of it.

If I was downloading 700 megs, I don't much care if it misses the occasional file. When I notice I try to fix it. If I was downloading something that was 50 gigs, I think I might manually check.

Quade wrote:What version are you using? I'm describing 6.50RC3.

Nothing is 100%. Sometimes the spammers post with the first rar missing and the repair creates the first par. When that happens it breaks the checking. If you see something downloading and the first RAR is completely missing, you might want to be wary of it.

If I was downloading 700 megs, I don't much care if it misses the occasional file. When I notice I try to fix it. If I was downloading something that was 50 gigs, I think I might manually check.

OK I have it, I know the poster who rar & par it, then posted it...so it wasn't an intentional of a missing first rar file, I was just asking if Newsbin did check the first file for password, now would that apply if I have nothing checked in the Options>span filter settings to not check for password files?

I just didn't know if the password was bad or the rar files corrupted, with the error that I got...it did download, then repaired, then failed on extracting, and gave the error...
Thank you Great program

Well, the real question now is whether WinRAR can unrar it. If yes, then it was probably a password problem. If no, then it's just bad.

Quade wrote:Well, the real question now is whether WinRAR can unrar it. If yes, then it was probably a password problem. If no, then it's just bad.

after some more detail info on it, there were lots of errors when downloading, but when repairing, if NBP couldn't repair why did it jump to Unpacking? I just did a complete clean re-install of the 6.50 RC3, when I did the first install it was an upgrade to 6.50 RC3, I will keep an eye on it, the crashing when starting seems to be fixed..

but when repairing, if NBP couldn't repair why did it jump to Unpacking?

Just because it's repaired, that doesn't mean the RARS are good. I've seen numerous times where the PARS were made over bad files so, even with a valid repair, the set won't unrar. So, a repair gives you the files that were posted but, if they were bad even before they were posted, they're still bad after repair.

That's why the next step is to try WinRAR on the rars. You could download a PAR and see if quickpar likes the files too.