Default download folder won't auto-clean

[MrDetermination]

Hi there!

This app seems pretty cool and I'm probably going to convert + donate some money if I can figure a couple more things out.  The last thing will be RSS monitoring/filtering but for now, I'm trying to do what I can do already with the app I was doing...

I have it monitoring a NZB folder and importing from there, auto downloading, repairing, extracting and cleaning up the temp folder.  This gets me to where I can click download on something and it auto extracts to the place where things live till I watch them or sort them... but the folders full of .rar files aren't being deleted after download.

Simply put, I want the default download folder to be empty once everything is extracted or to put it another way, once the download/extraction is finished I want the only thing left to be the contents of the extracted .rar set.

My -newsDL folder above is not cleaning up.

[Hecks]

Well, you seem to have all the right options checked, so it should be working.

It will only delete the rar files after a successful unrar.  Are you sure this has happened (i.e. entry on PAR2 tab reads Unraring 100%)?  And have you tested this on more than one NZB?

-Hecks

[MrDetermination]

I'd say I have watched 6 to 8 ~45 minute video clips that have been downloaded and unrared without issue.  The tab with that information is auto cleaning so I can't verify the display upon completion.

[Hecks]

OK, so it seems to be unraring fine.  Just to confirm the problem: you're left with folders named after NZBs in your download directory, each of which contains the full set of rars?

Something else to check: right-click on collection in queue, check that 'Delete archives after unraring' has a tick next to it.

-Hecks

[MrDetermination]

If I download a 350mb video file called videoabc.avi that is broken in to a bunch of rar chunks labeled video 1-15 or whatever, then there is a directory under /-newsDL called /videoabc so /-newsDL/videoabc and all the contents (the rars and whatever else) are left in tact even after the extraction completes.

[Hecks]

Well, I'm stumped with this one, never seen anyone with this problem before, we'll have to wait for Rdl to enlighten us.

-Hecks

[MrDetermination]

Well, at least I know I'm not crazy or all that stupid.

I just watched it work on three video sets and it cleans up the Par and Download queues pretty much real time.  I unticked and reticked that box in the context menu but that didn't accomplish anything.

Seems like well written stuff... maybe I'm screwing up somewhere silly.

Also, I just noticed it looks inside .zip files for .nzb and handles that very well.  Totally sweet.

Hopefully the author can help out.

EDIT: Should I make the Temp and download folders the same or will that cause me to lose data?  My download volume is limited so I don't really want to burn data testing this.  Also, does the creation of sub folders have anything to do with it... I'll tinker with that one on the next round.

[MrDetermination]

Eh, tried both those things (had re-downloaded something that was nuked) with no effect.

[Rdl]

Separate default nzb dir & autoimport dir. Are you saying that your download gets auto unrared but rars that got unrared aren't deleted?

[MrDetermination]

Correct

I created a new directory to use for "default nzb" and left auto import as it was... no effect.

[Xanthos]

Having similar problems, the download folders are not being deleted and are full of .par and .rar files.  

Here is part of my log for the last file I downloaded:

[10/10/2007 3:10:33 PM] [T3] Article finished 6/7 hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.vol015+16.par2
[10/10/2007 3:10:34 PM] [Dec] Yenc file hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.vol015+16.par2 decoded in 250ms
[10/10/2007 3:10:34 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] Repairing hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.par2
[10/10/2007 3:10:34 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] "d:\ng\archives\msgid_2586270_hell_s_kitchen_(uk)_-_1x05_-_day_05\hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.par2" Par2 repair started
[10/10/2007 3:10:42 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] "d:\ng\archives\msgid_2586270_hell_s_kitchen_(uk)_-_1x05_-_day_05\hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.par2" Par2 repair successful
[10/10/2007 3:10:44 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] "d:\ng\archives\msgid_2586270_hell_s_kitchen_(uk)_-_1x05_-_day_05\hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.part01.rar" unrar started
[10/10/2007 3:10:44 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] Source dir: d:\ng\archives\msgid_2586270_hell_s_kitchen_(uk)_-_1x05_-_day_05\
[10/10/2007 3:10:44 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] Unrar dir: D:\NG
[10/10/2007 3:10:49 PM] [PAR2&Unrar] "d:\ng\archives\msgid_2586270_hell_s_kitchen_(uk)_-_1x05_-_day_05\hell_s kitchen uk s01e05.part01.rar" unrar finished
[10/10/2007 3:13:40 PM] [Main] Download queue autosaved in 0ms

Any suggestions on a solution?

[Bleckshire]

Same exact problem here. I've went over all the options and settings. Everything looks to be correct, yet none of the rar's are deleted after a successful extraction.

[Bleckshire]

Alright. I just downloaded a couple things and it deleted the rar's after extraction just fine this time. The only difference I can point out between now and earlier is that in this instance, I just imported a .nzb I downloaded earlier. Before, it was automatically retrieved from an RSS feed. I'll let it grab another one from RSS and see if it does the same thing.

[freeop]

Just did what you mentioned, well actually it was already done when I read your post.

Anyway here's the results:



Now in this one, on the Left is the Decoded files, while on the right is the downoaded files. I did get this on the RSS feed.

I have the settings to: (a picture is worth a thousand words)



and



Do I have the setting right? If not then what do I need to set them up so it will delete the folder and files when everything is complete?



freeop...

[Bleckshire]

Alright, not sure what exactly I changed but for some reason everything seems to be working perfectly now. I just needed it to delete the rar's after it extracted the contents from an nzb grabbed with an RSS feed (which it wasn't doing earlier). Sounds like what the poster above me wants is for it to extract to it's destination and then delete the folder the rar's were downloaded in once the extraction is complete. I'm not quite sure since I've only recently started using alt.binz but what it looks like you could do is uncheck the option "Create subfolder based on NZB/root node name" in Setup>Download so that your rar's are just downloaded directly to your download folder and deleted once extracted. That way there are no files/folders of your download remaining once your extraction is complete. Keep the rest of your settings the same so that it creates a folder based on the NZB name in the extraction destination when it extracts.