Lost as always

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Lost as always

Postby danrobin » Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:20 pm

I had to reinstall newsbin due to a harddrive failure. So when d/l some files say there's10 or so It has a par file with it but it puts it in the failed list and all the files are downloaded but each is put into separate folder it creates and when i look at them it will show each filename as the folder and then some are put into one folder with a couple files missing they are in other folders. I've never seen this before. My Main Download folder is this D:\downloads\$(LONGGROUP)\$(FILENAME)\
The unrar folder is the same
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Re: Lost as always

Postby Quade » Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:07 am

$(FILENAME) will make a unique folder for each file you download based on the filename. Is that what you really want? I'd remove that from at least the download path. If you want a unique folder for the unrar, I think it'll work. Using $(SUBJECT) might work out better.
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Re: Lost as always

Postby danrobin » Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:11 pm

Well I changed the Main Download Folder to this D:\Downloads\$(LONGGROUP)\ and My Unrar folder to this D:\Downloads\$(LONGGROUP)\$(SUBJECT) and it's working now. Now after looking at it. It was only happening with one certain uploader. It's weird that one Uploader was causing the problem. Probably the way it was compacted ?
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Re: Lost as always

Postby Quade » Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:09 am

$(FILENAME) is rarely used. I suspect it doesn't do what you think it does.
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Re: Lost as always

Postby danrobin » Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:30 pm

Well adding the $(subject) worked great. Thanks
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