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Newsbin 6.60B4 is Auto UnRaring RAR files for a Group of Groups, despite Auto UnRAR being disabled for that Group of Groups.

I have check marked the box for "Automatically UnRAR Complete Files" in the Newsbin options, and the box for "Disable AutoPAR UnRAR for this Group - Don't UnRAR RAR files" in the Group Properties for a Group of Groups, but Newsbin 6.60B4 seems to be ignoring the latter setting and is auto unraring RAR files.

Is this a bug, or am I wrong with my assumption that the latter (for a group of groups) should override the former (for all groups). (Automatically unrar files for all groups, except those within a particular group of groups). I readily admit that, until just a few days ago, I haven't used Newsbin's Auto UnRar feature in the past.

Is the lack of any response to my report, and question because I'm the only one experiencing this problem?

As a part of trying to resolve the issue on my own I performed a temporary installation of Newsbin 6.55 to the SSD drive of a friend's Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit laptop computer, and then updated that installation with Newsbin 6.60 Beta 4, before then entering the same settings used with my usual installation of Newsbin 6.60 Beta 4 and subscribing to, and working with a single newsgroup. I encountered the same problem with the temporary installation to a different computer.

I don't see the problem listed as a known problem, nor do I see where it's been mentioned before with the current beta release.

Please, feel free to hit me with a Clue-X-4 if I'm being dense, or have overlooked some detail that might be obvious to others, but not to me.

Thank you.

Sorry, I forgot to respond.

I have an action item to test this. I did look at the code and don't see anything obvious wrong. Makes me wonder if it lost track of the group because the group is needed to check to see if it should unrar or not.

As a matter of information.

With the use of the below settings, which are directly from my Newsbin.nbi file, the unRARed contents of RAR files downloaded from my "eBooks" Group of Groups are found in the folder F:\NB-UnRar\$(FILENAME)\. The first in the usual series of associated PAR files are found remaining in the folder F:\eBooks\$(YEAR)$(MONTH)$(DAYS)\

I can't think of anything else of relevance in my particular installation which would cause the problem I've reported.

[AutoRAR]
AggressiveAssembly=0
AutoDecode=1
AutoDelete=1
AutoFolder=0
AutoScratch=0
DisableAutoPAR=0
FolderPrefix=0
KeepFilestamp=1
PausePARS=1
RemovePerfect=1
UnRARPath=F:\NB-UnRar\$(FILENAME)\
UseFilter=0
UseRecycle=1

[eBooks]
ColumnDir=1
ColumnSort=4
DisableAutoRAR=1
DisplayAge=0
DownloadPath=F:\eBooks\$(YEAR)$(MONTH)$(DAYS)\
EnableAutoMode=0
EnableFilters=1
FilterProfile=eBooks-With_Exts
InitDays=0
IsExpanded=0
PAR_AutoDownload=0
ShowFiles=0
ShowNew=1
UseFTR=0
UseMDA=0
UseProfile=1

I mean the group internal to Newsbin. This isn't something you have control over.