BUG in 6.50B18 when unraring...

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BUG in 6.50B18 when unraring...

Postby CoolStream » Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:54 am

I have just noticed that if the program attempts to unrar to a drive that is running out of space, the program will unrar as much as it can in the free space but once the limit is reached, it appears to treat the unrar as being successful and then deletes the parts. No warning is given so the only way to 'fix' it is to clear enough space on the drive and do the download again.

I'm not sure if this has already been reported but hope this post will be useful.
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Re: BUG in 6.50B18 when unraring...

Postby dexter » Fri Nov 08, 2013 1:38 pm

It's a known issue and a tricky problem to solve. Newsbin will pause downloads when you get low on disk space but it isn't monitoring space needed to unrar a file. You could set a higher threshold to get around this issue by modifying the configuration file as detailed here.
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Re: BUG in 6.50B18 when unraring...

Postby CoolStream » Sat Nov 09, 2013 12:38 am

Thanks for the reply. :wink:

Wouldn't it be possible to obtain the filesize of the about-to-be-extracted file from within the autopar module and then run a check on available disk space to see if the space is less than the space required? It should then be simple to abort the autounrar routine and return an error code.
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Re: BUG in 6.50B18 when unraring...

Postby dexter » Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:45 am

It's just software, most anything is possible. It's a matter of deciding to allocate time to an issue that less than 1% of the users run up against. We'll think about it.
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