Had many problems the last days, all with 6.71RC2.:
Problem 1
In a group tab, I selected several (expandable) rows (with rars and pars inside) and right clicked "Download to Folder named for Subject".
All downloads went to a folder named for the first row. I don't think that is, what it should do.
I think every row should download to a folder named for the subject of that row.
Problem 2
While downloads were running i changed "Main Download folder" and cleared the "Unrar Folder". (I know that this does not change the folders for the running downloads.)
I selected as above to test again but my new settings were ignored. The downloads went to the old setting and the rars were unpacked to the old unpack folder.
I waited until the downloads finished closed and started Newsbin. Then the "new" settings were used.
I think the settings should work instantly for new downloads.
Problem 3
In the download tab the first group of files were downloaded and were par-checked and unpacked. At the same time the next downloads in the list were downloaded, with par2 files paused. All the rows of a group (besides the pars) went to status "Downloaded" but the icon on the left side was not the green text-lines icon, it was a green circle with a white arrow in it. The status column of all that rows says [PAR: 0 of xxx]. Then Newsbin unpaused one after another all the other par2 files and was downloading them.
But it's unnecessary because there are no missing parts. The parts are not written to a file at that time. (Maybe in memory or in the chunks folder)
Problem 4
I get many chunks in the chunks folder. Yesterday I saw 35 GB in there. I think these are the unassembled parts.
I always had checked "Pre-allocate files. Improve performance for spinning disks"
I thought this would create the whole file first and then is filling the parts in that previously created file.
In my newsbin.ini I have a setting "ChunkCacheSize=4000". (I have Windows 7 64 bit with 32 GB RAM. Available RAM is least at 16 GB so Windows doesn't have to swap RAM to his swapfile.)
Problem 5
Sometimes Newsbin hangs and does nothing. Then the Chunk "Cache Cache Use State" at the bottom shows "Cache: 0/4000 (0)".
I saw that someone else in the forum had the same problem and he wrote he opened the Help menu and clicked on "About Newsbin Pro".
I've done that too and the cache size got back to 39xx/4000 and the download continued.
At the moment my downloads were running an I looked at to Cache Use State and it said 3600/4000. When I clicked "About Newsbin Pro" the size changed instantly to 3920/4000.
I think this could be a memory leak.
Problem 6
When all downloads are finished many of those chunk files are still there in the chunks folder. That could be the virus scanner. I will setup the virus scanner to ignore the complete Newsbin folder. Maybe it helps.
Problem 7
In every group i click on the column "Date:" so it sorts all rows, that the newest postings are at the bottom.
Nearly everytime when I download new headers some of the rows are not sorted.
I have to click 2 times so they are sorted again.
I have tested this with a group reset. I deleted files from July the second. Then I downloaded 50.000 posts (with special download).
Result was the posts of July the second were at the bottom of the group list.
Some time ago someone else reported such a problem and I think you (or someone else) wrote he should wait, Newsbin would sort them after some time.
I waited long enough, but Newsbin doesn't sort my groups. I always have to click 2 times on the Date column.
Problem 8
I started another download with a nzb file. I got four rows in the download tab. The first row only contained the rar files. Row two to four were par2 files for rar files. For example par2 row one contained repair information for the rar files 1-100. The second contained it for rar files 101-200 and thirs row contained pars2 files for the rest of the rars.)
I had such nzb's before and Newsbin handled them without errors. Well sometimes some of those par rows were not cleared from the download tab, but the unpacking worked.
This time all packed files were unpacked several times so some files were unpacked 6 times other only 3 times. It seems, maybe because of 3 par2 groups all these pars were unpacking again and again. I don't know why some files were unpacked six times and other only 3 times.
This time I had the Unrar path filled. I should test it without, if I'm able to do that (see above))
I can send you the nzb file for testing, if you want.
Problem 9
Yesterday I had a group open and it showed files for one month. I clicked on the button "Load older files into the list" but nothing happened.
I clicked several time but nothing happened. I clicked on "Display Age" and had chosen "16: May" and clicked on "Load older files..." and clicked on "Load newer files into the list". Again, I did this several times, but nothing happened. I also clicked on "Reload from Disk" but canceled that dialog. Then I wanted to try another Date from the "Display Age". It dropped down, while the blue progress bar at the bottom, was running to about half of the screen. Then the Newsbin gui stopped working, with a click on the windows, it was greyed/whited and Windows said program wouldn't answer. I saw in the download folders that the downloads were running fine, so I waited for completion. Then I had to kill the Newsbin process.
With no downloads running I just tried again:
"Display Age" box is showing "Display Age". Clicking on "Load Older files..." had no effect.
Then I chose "16: July" and the list of files got shorter. Clicked on "Load Older files...".
The blue progress bar appeared about to 40 % of the program width.
Now Newsbin hangs. The header shows Newsbin.ini - Newsbin Pro 6.71RC2 - Build 4740 (Keine Rückmeldung) Translates to "No response".
Rest of the program is white. Mouse has the hour glass icon.
Have to kill the process...
Problem 10
I don't know the exact version number but I think since 6.70B11 or 6.71B2 I very often get "Display Update Pending:..."
I never saw it with 6.62 and before. I don't think it's my computer, it's fast enough.
Problem 11
"Time to finish current downloads" at the bottom showed a wrong time. Maybe it counted the paused par2 files, but 10 seconds before the last rar file it said 18 minutes.
Then after the last downloaded rar it went to 28 minutes and then after a few seconds to 00:00:00 and the header of that group of files showed "[UnRAR] xx%: Completed"
I thought paused download were not counted to the finish download time. I think they shouldn't, they are paused a were not needed/downloaded.
This download had about 48 par2 files with 109.3 MB each. My download speed is about 6.2 MB/s. I calculated 14.1 minutes download time for the pars instead of 18, so I'm not sure if the paused par files were the reason.
Hope you can fix at least some of the problems.
But I could live with all those above problems, if you would error the downloads, which could not be unpacked to the original position, due to the too long path problem. (And of course the downloaded files shouldn't be deleted, so one can manually unpack then.) I know I've written all that before
It would be my personal priority, because all problems above doesn't corrupt the unpacked downloads.
I needed 6 hours to wrote this, so please don't be offended by my post.
(I hope it's the correct translation)
All the best,
Calahan
by dexter » Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:41 am 
