by megalomando » Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:05 pm
Hi uptown,
Unfortunately the screenshot you posted didn't come through, it just shows the drive path from G: to the file, so I don't have the visual.
What has always been for me has been perfect: I spend 10-15 minutes choosing things of interest; making a nzb, downloading the nzb which I name (or if I don't name, it is the name I used in the NZB web search), clicking on the download tab which by default loads it into Newsbin. I then I go with just that one or I select other options and do the same procedure.
Then I go to Newsbin and see however many tabs there were generated (like the Black mountain rag & wildwood flower shown in my screenshot). Maybe there are 20 tabs, but they have the individual files and the group files like 6 different options of "The visitor from under the rock", each with the par files.
I organize them by size as they all are the same and lets say I choose the smallest one; I click on that, it opens to the default directory, I type in the name for the folder it goes into and hit enter. It now downloads that one file into that folder. If I selected multiple files, the one at the top of the list starts first. If there is a problem with that file, I right click on it & delete it & Newsbin goes to work on the next one. Assuming it is downloading fine, I delete the other larger ones and then go above to the next tab and repeat the procedure. I'll do that with all the different items I'd selected and they all download into the folders I had named at the end of the process.
I now look and see if there were any failures & if so, the tab containing the different multiples is still there so I choose another file I hadn't first tried and use that into the directory that is now formed. When Newsbin completes its work, it deletes all the un-needed rar & par files so there is no manual cleanup I have to do.
So everything is done in a group of steps:
1. go to the web, to make nzb files of each specific item I want to download.
2. pick multiples or just one item & name the NZB file and choose to download that nzb.
3 click on that nzb tab at the bottom of the browser showing the nzb was downloaded & this loads it into Newsbin & that file, or files, is placed in sequence on that horizontal tab line (for lack of the accurate wording). If this is the first NZB I click on, it starts Newsbin which I then usually minimize. If not & Newsbin is already running, Newsbin does not pop up every time I click on a new nzb file, everything is silently entered as work to do in Newsbin.
4. When done making NZB files on the web, I maximize Newsbin and for me, going from left to right, I click on the named tabs which places their contents on display in the subject field above and I choose which individual or groups of files I want to download, I highlight the ones I want, right click on them and choose to load into an existing folder. I either navigate to that folder or I go to where i want to save that item and type a name in the data entry window, hit enter and Newsbin creates the directory as I named it and I forget about it & go to the next NZB tab and repeat the process.
5. I'm done; there's no cleanup needed, Newsbin does that for me, every file is in the directory I wanted it to go to and has the proper name.
Some people might want to have all music or video files together in one big file and all the above is too much work. For me, it's far more wieldy to have everything in their own folders and kept in the classifications I want. I use Musicbee to play music and it indexes all the files in an area I define and then I can choose by artist, album, name of song, genre, whatever, so it doesn't care if the items are in folders or not. I still like them in folders.
So what I have tried explaining is that Newsbin has for the last 17 years for me, done as I've described above. With this last Beta, everything changed and when I do stage #2 above, it downloads those files into newsbin immediately and Newsbin immediately processes those files and puts them in the default folder. All of the files... Music, video, it doesn't matter, all of them. That is a mess to deal with later.
I can't believe that is what is supposed to happen, it is chaos and unlike what was. Returning to the last release from the beta restored what has been.
I posted the OP to let the developers know what I found happening with the beta, if this is now the expected way for Newsbin to work, I'm surprised and will not do any further upgrades. I was writing to inform, not to complain.