Rar retry issue not solved with RC7

[MilesAhead]

RC 7 I'm still getting the unrar retry hang issue more than half the time. The download needs no repair and unrars manually just fine.

[DThor]

The feedback from those that were having troubles is that the latest seems to have solved the problem, so I guess it's down to you isolating the issue on your end, or perhaps the specific posts you're trying to download (don't post that info publicly, though). Make sure you've disabled aggressive mode and try upping your number of retries by a couple. You don't post any relevant information in this thread apart from system specs, so I have no idea what all your variables are.

I do know that on 32 bit, you have to keep an eye on memory. Anything around 2G will cause thread crashes.

DT

[MilesAhead]

Ok. I'll try upping the retries. I'll post if I found out anything useful.

[Quade]

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It retries when it doesn't think there's anything else it can do. So, you need to try to figure out why it's retrying and not finishing. PAR counts are the primary thing to check.

Retries prevent assembly so, if you have 10 retries, it won't attempt to assemble incompletes till the 11th retry. That's why the default is 2 retries. That works out to about a minute of inactivity. If you server always delivers all that it can and retries don't really pull any new records, I'd leave it at 2.

[MilesAhead]

I use USB 3 docking stations. I use the Override Unrar Paths option with the target as a drive in the dock. Seems to happen more often when the dock is shut off(I have the drive out because I'm watching a video on it.) But I don't think that triggers it every time. I also changed some of my system settings. I'll post if the problem seems to go away or I have any new info.

Edit: I put retries back to 2 as suggested. I use only GigaNews so there shouldn't be any problem with the source.

[Quade]

Edit: I put retries back to 2 as suggested. I use only GigaNews so there shouldn't be any problem with the source.

I wouldn't assume anything. If your net connection is flaky, even if Giganews is the best, you might still have problems. The thing to do is look at some of the downloads and make sure you get no red blocks that don't match up with 430 errors. Giganews isn't perfect. Had a case yesterday. 855 day old file was unrepairable when downloaded from Giga. Was fine when I combined Giga and Astra so, the missing blocks came from astra.

It's not clear what you're talking about with the docking system thing. If your unrar disk is offline when Newsbin tries to unrar then of course you're going to get stalled downloads. Newsbin assumes the disks are there and functioning. It makes no effort to recover from something like a missing disk.

[MilesAhead]

It's not clear what you're talking about with the docking system thing. If your unrar disk is offline when Newsbin tries to unrar then of course you're going to get stalled downloads. Newsbin assumes the disks are there and functioning. It makes no effort to recover from something like a missing disk.

Would it be possible to map that setting to a toggle on the Status Bar? It's easy to forget to dig down and toggle the setting. It must have succeeded unraring in the download folder on the system disk a number of times. If it failed every time the USB dock disk was not assigned to a drive letter then I would have noticed it. Strange.

The reason I target to that drive is I have a USB 3.0 card and WD Caviar Black 6 Gb/s drive in the dock. It's faster than my 3 Gb/s system disk. But my set top box is not networked. So sometimes I pull the drive to watch videos that are on it(it's a WD HDTV for USB set top box.) If a status bar toggle is a hassle I'm sure I can come up with some macro to do it with a hotkey. But it would take some digging with a window spy to get the control names to artificially click the mouse etc..

edit: I've done 1/2 dozen downloads and the automatic unrar has worked on all when the USB dock is the target. Guess the simpler solution is just to stick another drive in the dock that has the same target folder. So far so good.