downloaded pieces lost/reset on program close?

[tastyratz]

Ive noticed a few things with nbpro lately,
I have a lot of things on my download list. If I close the program or unexpectedly crash with it open all download progress/pieces are lost and it starts from the beginning. If a download starts I would think it will resume where it left off? every time I start up my dl list has 0kb complete on all downloads.

If my machine shuts down/crashes with nbpro open the status of all my downloads is reset to resume. if I paused them (for a reason) as soon as I start nbpro again all start fresh. my battery backup has been on the fritz lately so i have noticed this. Not every time, but I have had to re-pause my downloads at least a few times this month (block acct, those files can wait till next month)

[Quade]

If your PC crashes. All bets are off. It means Newsbin can't save anything about the current status. Normally Newsbin save state about partial downloads when it exits.

If you exit Newsbin and re-start on the other hand, it should remember and only re-download enough to get itself back into downloading new files again.

I'm going to revisit this for 6.50.

[tastyratz]

well for what it's worth, even if I close newsbin properly every single time if it didn't complete it starts over from the beginning. seems to be without fail.

That being said if you did revisit this and create some sort of a progress autosave every few minutes that would be helpful.

[Quade]

I don't believe it starts completely over again. I think it downloads the first chunk of the file, then verifies that the file with the same name already on disk is the correct one.

[tastyratz]

if it does it that way it should zip right through its verification of what's on disk. what it does for me is if I had 4 hours to download all the chunks I have, it will re-download again for 4 hours. its definitely grabbing complete files.

[Mascot]

I was about to make a post about this as well, as I'm having the same issue. Instead of picking back up where it left off, NB creates a whole new set of files with a (nnnn) suffix, ignoring all the files that are already present from the previous download.

I'm not sure if this behavior began with a particular version, or when I switched to Win8. I'm currently using 6.41 RC1.

[wyldemusick]

No, it definitely began several versions back as it used to look to the download directory even after a crash, and check to see if files were already there. And then it suddenly went to the behavior of starting from scratch. The workaround is to figure out which files it already has, then pause those in the file list, or delete them..which is sometimes not possible.