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New Alt.Binz versions => Requests => Closed requests => Topic started by: kC_ on September 17, 2007, 07:30:25 pm

Title: auto skip if file exists
Post by: kC_ on September 17, 2007, 07:30:25 pm

as title says..

would be nice if altbinz could auto skip if files exist...
currently it donloads the file all over again, with an extra x on the extension
e.g
blah.rar
blah.rarx

cheers

Title: auto skip if file exists
Post by: afdad on September 17, 2007, 08:08:23 pm

Does "Keep download history" and "Import already downloaded as paused" (Setup > Download) not work? Or did you have something else in mind?

Title: auto skip if file exists
Post by: kC_ on September 17, 2007, 08:12:22 pm

yep that works, but if you download same files from a different post.. then you get blah.rarx

Title: auto skip if file exists
Post by: afdad on September 17, 2007, 08:35:14 pm

OK, I see. So ideally ABZ would compare checksums, and if they're the same, just skip the new file. (Sometimes files have the same name, but different content.)

Title: auto skip if file exists
Post by: Watcher on September 28, 2007, 03:29:34 am

At that point, it isn't saving you bandwidth as you've already downloaded it. It might save you some disk space, though.

Keep in mind that for some files, you can't determine the filename until you have downloaded the article and can extract the filename from the header.

Title: auto skip if file exists
Post by: Rdl on September 28, 2007, 02:39:03 pm

Done.

Ussual stuff. Download thread gets filename from the start of the article, checks if file exists on download location and if it does, deletes file from download queue.