Author Topic: par tab stops working sometimes, especially for unrar  (Read 2618 times)

Offline MrbLOB9000

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par tab stops working sometimes, especially for unrar
« on: May 08, 2009, 12:09:07 am »
sometimes the par tab stops working, it's better than it was since he fixed the corrupt par2 problem one or two versions back but it does still stop working, well, I think it still basically always checks the pars and downloads the extra pars, but ocassionally doesn't actually fix them automatically and much more often it downloads it and fixes it but doesn't actually unrar it.  Have to go to the rar tab and right click and manually click the "unrar par2 set" option in the right click menu and then it unrars it.  Obviously it shouldn't be doing this.

I can't figure out the actual cause for it, it seems to mostly happen when I download somethign that needs to be repaired, after it's repair it often doesn't unrar and then after that stuff doesn't unrar either.

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Re: par tab stops working sometimes, especially for unrar
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2009, 12:36:04 am »
In 28.5, I can pretty quickly break the PAR2 tab by simply moving things around in the queue.  At some point, it stops even checking (at least no new blocks show up as each file is downloaded, and all subsequent collections stay at 0 blocks). Occasionally I forget not to move anything and I want to downloading collection E before D, so I'll move those around while downloading collection A. It isn't 100%, but when I do that, that's mostly why the PAR2 tab stops working for me. One of the steps I try (I haven't verified it works all the time, as I generally just try not to move anything if I can because of the bug) is to stop all downloads (turn off the connection button and let it finish), move things around as desired, then reconnect.

When I'm moving things around in the queue while downloading, my system is probably backlogged because my line speed is faster than my computer can handle. Thus, over the course of downloading a DVD-sized post, it's not unusual for me to have (say) 10 "decoding" items in my queue for collection A while alt.binz has moved on to downloading collection B.. That may have something to do with why moving things around hoses the PAR2 tab on my system.

Offline MrbLOB9000

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Re: par tab stops working sometimes, especially for unrar
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2009, 07:22:52 am »
it's definitelyl not because I'm moving things around with too fast of a download speed, since my max download is 160KB/s if I'm lucky.  Not sure if moving stuff around does it, I move stuff around kind of all the time and it only stops working some times.