Download Filters

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Download Filters

Postby TBlack » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:57 am

Beta 8

I have this Filter in my Download Filters:

(\.avi|\.bat|\.com|\.exe|\.flv|\.html?|\.jpe?g\.mpe?g|\.mov|\.pif|\.scr|\.wmv|\.zip)$

It was working in prior Betas and 6.55 and 6/56, but now .exe files are getting through in Beta 8. Maybe something is broke or not hooked up?

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Re: Download Filters

Postby Quade » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:25 am

Is it a post-unrar filter or a global or local filter. How are you assigning it?

Are you talking about files that have EXE's inside the RAR file?
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Re: Download Filters

Postby TBlack » Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:42 am

I have it as a Filter in a separate Category named "Trash" for DownloadFilters=Trash.

No, not EXE's inside RARs. I am seeing files with an .EXE extension in the Subject appear in the Group Listing. I don't want to download them or list them...want to just Filter them out.

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Re: Download Filters

Postby Quade » Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:00 pm

So it's displaying EXE's? The filters are enabled and you've assigned the filter to the group/group topic?

What happens if you select this filter manually in the post list?

These filters are "Subject" filters right?
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Re: Download Filters

Postby TBlack » Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:24 pm

Quade wrote:So it's displaying EXE's? The filters are enabled and you've assigned the filter to the group/group topic?


Yes, Filters are on and this Filter named Trash is listed as Reject If. Yes, this filter "Trash" is listed under the Group Topic Unsorted with the line DownloadFilter=Trash. I do have several lines in Trash to Reject various Subjects.

Quade wrote:What happens if you select this filter manually in the post list?


If I just enter EXE or .EXE, they just .EXE Files show. If I enter (\.exe)$, then the files disappear until I remove this manual Filter.

Quade wrote:These filters are "Subject" filters right?


Here is a sample listing from the Properties Window. Is this a Subject or a File listing?

(????) [09563/10029] - "Czech.15.03.07.Anyone.5096.720p.MP4-ABC.exe" yEnc
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Re: Download Filters

Postby TBlack » Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:34 pm

Quade,

I went back to 6.56 and EXEs are also getting through to the Post List.

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Re: Download Filters

Postby Quade » Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:46 pm

If I just enter EXE or .EXE, they just .EXE Files show. If I enter (\.exe)$, then the files disappear until I remove this manual Filter.


This isn't what I'm talking about.

Load up the post list. Where it says "Filter Profile" (4th drop down, second line from the left), drop the drop down and select the filter.

(\.avi|\.bat|\.com|\.exe|\.flv|\.html?|\.jpe?g\.mpe?g|\.mov|\.pif|\.scr|\.wmv|\.zip)$


Dex pointed out this filter won't work. Not in "Subjects" mode.

This filter says "match these extensions IF they appear at the absolute end of the line". That's not what you want in a subject filter most of the time extensions are followed by quotes and more text.

(\.avi|\.bat|\.com|\.exe|\.flv|\.html?|\.jpe?g\.mpe?g|\.mov|\.pif|\.scr|\.wmv|\.zip)


Should work for a subject filter.
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Re: Download Filters

Postby TBlack » Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:21 pm

(\.avi|\.bat|\.com|\.exe|\.flv|\.html?|\.jpe?g\.mpe?g|\.mov|\.pif|\.scr|\.wmv|\.zip)

Yep, this works nicely, even removed the parenthesis and it still works which it should. Tried your new Disable Switch to test and it worked great! Am really glad you implemented the Disable Switch functionality :) Thanks for straightening me out :D
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