Pars paused forever :'(

[sycopath1916]

Hey all,
The problem exists in "6.0 Build 1011" so I updated to "6.42 Build 2123". Still the same problem occurs.

Newsbin will download the files, but will never download the PAR2 files, even if the auto-extract fails due to complete files, I still have to manually resume the download of the PAR2 files. Annoying when I queue a few different old files that need the PAR2 files to fix them, but I have to go an manually resume all of the PAR2 files.

Is there an option to somehow force Newsbin Pro to download the PAR2 files?

[Quade]

It unpauses for me.

90% of the files set has to be there before it'll unpause. You see the par block counts in the status column, do you have 90% of the required blocks?

Are the files all assembled on disk?

How many retries do you have set?

I imagine there might still be cases when it should unpause and doesn't. The math gets a little hairy when people use huge block sizes. Still you ought to be able to examine the download. Both the par block counts and the par properties (in the right click menu) and figure out what's up.

Most of the time, if you don't have at least 90% of the file blocks, it's unrepairable. I wonder if you have high retry's set or something.

[sycopath1916]

As a slight n00b to the usenet, I left most of the defaults as is, bar the download directory.

90% of the files set has to be there before it'll unpause. You see the par block counts in the status column, do you have 90% of the required blocks?

I actually don't know. Will check it next time it happens.

Are the files all assembled on disk?

Yes

How many retries do you have set?

"Max Retries: 2 Max Retries before files are Assembled"

I imagine there might still be cases when it should unpause and doesn't. The math gets a little hairy when people use huge block sizes. Still you ought to be able to examine the download. Both the par block counts and the par properties (in the right click menu) and figure out what's up.

Most of the time, if you don't have at least 90% of the file blocks, it's unrepairable. I wonder if you have high retry's set or something.

Hrm. This is something that I'll check next time. Shall report back when it happens again.

Also, thanks for the quick reply