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Offline Spits123

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0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« on: March 03, 2011, 04:15:10 pm »
If you have an entire collection of 1 NZB file in your queque, you expand it, select all files from it and select split it will delete the entire collection.
Sure it isn't something you would do usually, but perhaps a prevention could be build in to keep you from doing that.

How I got there you might wonder (since it doesn't sound like anything anybody else would do)? Well I imported a NZB with the same name as a previous collection, so Alt.Binz bundled the 2 together. Because they were both about the same size my taskbar was giving that the download progress was for 50% done, and I kinda tried to fix it this way...
« Last Edit: March 03, 2011, 04:20:12 pm by Spits123 »

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2011, 05:33:35 pm »
i couldn't reproduce this. i tried a collection with just an nzb in it, one with nzb plus the rar files and one collection with multiple nzbs, all that happend was that a new collection with the same files was created and everything was identical to the first except for the execute comand. for some reason it does not get duplicated when u split collections.

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2011, 05:52:32 pm »
i couldn't reproduce this. i tried a collection with just an nzb in it, one with nzb plus the rar files and one collection with multiple nzbs, all that happend was that a new collection with the same files was created and everything was identical to the first except for the execute comand. for some reason it does not get duplicated when u split collections.

After trying again I got the same result indeed, but I found out what I did exactly the time before.
Open a collection, click 1 file, press Ctrl+A, (it will select all files, only the files it seems, not the collection) and then rightclick -> Split.
Result guarenteed! ;)

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 08:47:35 am »
Congratulations this is officialy the weirdest bug report i ever saw!  I did indeed find a very strange behavoir, but a very differnt one then what u discribed:

When u select a single file within an expanded collection and using Ctrl+A Alt.binz does not simply select all files within that collection but all files within all collections. If you then try to split the collection either by right click menue, shortcut or toolbar button it does the oposite and joins all collection into the first collection in the queue...
« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 08:49:28 am by davidq666 »

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2011, 08:41:17 pm »
Congratulations this is officialy the weirdest bug report i ever saw!  I did indeed find a very strange behavoir, but a very differnt one then what u discribed:

When u select a single file within an expanded collection and using Ctrl+A Alt.binz does not simply select all files within that collection but all files within all collections. If you then try to split the collection either by right click menue, shortcut or toolbar button it does the oposite and joins all collection into the first collection in the queue...

Haha, I feel honored. :D I've got a couple of friends in school that also program (smaller things but still), and they always hand it over to me for bug testing because I always give the most idiot input you can think of to a program guaranteed to make it crash one way or another. One time I was talking about a method one of their programs were using, and I found a bug in it without even touching the program at all (nor looking at the code).

Well it didn't show that the collections were actually selected, so I assumed it were only the files inside that collection, kinda confusing. But yes indeed, after your message I checked my first collection (which was on Pause because I want to download it later) and indeed all the files are in there. Thanks for that message, else I would have downloaded allot of unnecessary stuff.

But I can see where the problem comes from, if you try to split everything in a collection from a collection, it creates a new one as you described, deletes the empty collection, bundling all the files you just split inside the new collection with the same name.
It now does exactly the same, but with multiple collections rather than 1 only. So it actually functioning as it should, causing this wierd behavior.
But I don't see this as a welcome result of that operation, so perhaps a prevention might still be build in anyway.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2011, 08:47:37 pm by Spits123 »

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2011, 06:03:41 pm »
I don't see a bug here. All normal behaviour.

Any suggestions?

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2011, 07:57:49 pm »
I don't see a bug here. All normal behaviour.

Any suggestions?

Well it could be considered a bug that when you use Ctrl+A on a file while having 1 collection open Alt.Binz doesn't give any visual feedback of the other collections being selected too. Therefor the behavior might appear as a bug, while it actually is the only thing Alt.Binz can do. So the visuals should be updated so it will displays that the other collections are selected too (when they are not open).

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2011, 03:06:28 am »
I will try and describe this behavior..

when you expand an nzb and ctrl-A (select all) it now selects ALL chunks in that nzb
(and ALL nzbs in your list - which you did not expect), and you right click pause
(or other operations like unpause) it does  this for the entire list (not just locally inside your nzb).

It acted locally past versions, not sure which past version (maybe around .33?)

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2011, 12:16:09 pm »
I'm 100% sure it was never like that.
CTRL-A select all that it can select based on the restrictions.
Since there is no restriction in place to select only sibling nodes from the same parent(only restriction is to select only same level nodes) - it selects all child nodes from all parents.
If we are to alter restricions, you wouldn't be able to select child nodes from different parents (which is usable when splitting those files into one collection)
« Last Edit: May 03, 2011, 12:42:31 pm by Rdl »

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2011, 12:42:55 am »
maybe I have a inadvertently changed a setting after I upgraded from .33?? to .38.1...

(better example than last reply)
before I loaded .38.1 I often did this:
I place a single nzb (say a full season of a TV show, multiple gigs in size), but due to
bandwidth caps and viewing priority I often did not download the entire nzb at once.

I would expand the nzb, then CTRL-A to select all and right click menu pause, once all
paused I would select the few episodes I wanted, etc. I would then leave this nzb in the
download queue and grab a few more episodes later, I might have several of these in the
queue.

with version .38.1, when I get to the right click CTRL-A step it now
selects ALL nzbs in the "download queue" page.

If anybody has a better method I am interested in trying it out.

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Re: 0.36.0 Bug on splitting category
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2011, 01:35:11 am »
Hmm, what I used to do when needing to unpause a lot of nfos (quite a while back now) was: expand all collections, use the filter with '.nfo', then ctrl+A select across a number of collections and unpause, so I'm pretty sure it used to work like this, and I'm not sure why your experience has been different.

In any case, with your particular situation I'd probably pause the collection and use the Split feature on those parts of it that you want to dl as and when. Actually, I'd grab them all separately to start with from a decent site, but that's another story ...